Intuitive Practical Wisdom in Organizational Life

Roca, Esther

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“…It harmonizes practical matters, which includes ambiguity, indetermination, and interpretation (Roca, 2007); phronesis integrates knowledge to praxis (Rooney, Leach, & Ashworth, 2014); it balances reason, emotion, and behavior (Sison & Ferrero, 2015;Willis, 2015); and it recognizes its own limits (Bachmann et al, 2017).…”

Section: Formal Definitions Of Phronesismentioning

confidence: 99%

Phronesis in administration and organizations: A literature review and future research agenda

Ames

Serafim

Zappellini

2020

Business Ethics: A Eur. Rev.

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Phronesis is essential for good decision-making and actions. This literature review shows how phronesis has been discussed and related to elements of the field of administration and organizations. A search in the database systems Scopus, EBSCO, Web of Science, and Scielo, based on eligibility criteria, resulted in 43 theoretical and 14 empirical works. The analysis of these studies showed the most significant empirical contributions, the most cited authors, methods, journals, and central themes addressed in studies on phronesis to understand ethics in business. From a virtue ethics perspective, we discuss the major theoretical and empirical contributions, as well as the implications of a restricted understanding of phronesis when it is treated apart from other elements of the virtue ethics framework. We present a synthesis of the concepts of phronesis, based on dimensions of magnitude and amplitude of the conceptions, ranging from formal to substantive phronesis, and covering individual, organizational, or societal levels of analysis. We argue that a substantive conception of phronesis within virtue ethics may improve our understanding of ethics because it assumes the interdependence of phronesis and moral virtues, integral anthropology, and the common good. We present a future research agenda, considering the study's limitations and findings.

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Section: Formal Definitions Of Phronesismentioning

confidence: 99%

Phronesis in administration and organizations: A literature review and future research agenda

Ames

Serafim

Zappellini

2020

Business Ethics: A Eur. Rev.

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“…The explanation that sustainability provides for prudence is similar to the meaning that the contemporary philosophical and psychological wisdom studies offer. Prudence is concerned with action in association with what is good and bad for human beings (Melé, ), and harmonizes reasoning and facts with emotions and values (Roca, ). According to Gladwin et al .…”

Section: A Common Ground Of Wisdom and Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These capabilities, i.e. recognizing and handling ambiguity, and considering normative aspects of circumstances, are among the critical aspects of practical wisdom (Roca, ; Rowley and Slack, ). Practical wisdom forms sound judgements based on deep understandings in conditions of uncertainty (O'Sullivan, , p. 222), facilitates organizational decision making towards the soundness of the choice of ends, means and corresponding actions (Arnaud and LeBon, ) and enhances organizational capacity for coping with ambiguity and for implementing sustainability.…”

Section: A Common Ground Of Wisdom and Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Wisdom and Sustainability: Dealing with Instability

Intezari

2015

Bus Strat Env

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A thorough review of the literature reveals that there is a paucity of studies on integrating wisdom and sustainability disciplines. This paper investigates the role of sustainability in fostering wisdom in the interaction between businesses and their surrounding environment. Wisdom has recently attracted a lot of attention in both academia and the practical world. However, despite the strong emphasis that is put on the necessity of incorporating wisdom into business practices, there is little on how wisdom can be practically integrated in the real business world. To address this issue, this paper draws a linkage between wisdom and sustainability by noting the assumptions that the concepts of wisdom and sustainability share with respect to human flourishing, environmental preservation and economic growth. It is concluded that wisdom manifests through organizational sustainability, and that wisdom promotes organizational sustainability capacity. A model of the interaction between the two practices is proposed. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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“…Together, these emotions can act as a "sign-posts" or "triggers" for workers to understand that something is going wrong and should therefore be changed (Trevino et al, 2006). For Border Patrol agents and other law enforcement officers among whom documented abuses have taken place, their guilt may serve as a key ingredient for developing the moral imagination and practical wisdom (Roca, 2007(Roca, , 2010 that may, in turn, reduce or moderate negative behaviors.…”

Section: The Complexity Of Ambivalence and Moral Emotionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Embodying emotional dirty work: a messy text of patrolling the border

Rivera

Tracy

2014

Qual Research in Orgs & Mgmt

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Purpose-"Dirty work" is an embodied, emotional activity, and may best be expressed through narrative thick description. The purpose of this paper is to employ creative analytic techniques through a "messy text" for better understanding the tacit knowledge and emotionality of dirty work and dirty research. The vignettes, based upon ethnographic fieldwork with US Border Patrol agents, viscerally reveal the embodied emotions of dirty work and doing dirty research. Design/methodology/approach-The research draws on a two and a half year ethnography of the US Border Patrol in which the first author engaged in participant observation, shadowing, and interviews. Based upon the iterative data analysis and narrative writing techniques using verbatim quotations and field data, the essay provides a series of vignettes that explore the multi-faceted feelings of dirty work. Findings-Tacit knowledge about dirty work is unmasked and known through experiences of the body as well as emotional reactions to the scene. A table listing the emotions that emerged in these stories supplements the narrative text. The analysis shows how communication about emotions provides a sense-making tool that, in turn, elucidates both the challenges and the potential highlights of doing dirty work. In particular, findings suggest that emotional ambiguity the "moral emotions" of guilt and shame may serve as sense-making tools that can help in ethical decision making and a re-framing of challenging situations. Originality/value-A field immersion alongside dirty workers, coupled with a creative writing approach, provides access to the fleeting, embodied, and fragmented nature of tacit knowledgeanswering the questions of what dirty work feels like. The essay provides a behind the scenes exploration of US Border Patrol agents-a profession that is alternately stigmatized or hidden from public view. Finally, the piece provides a self-reflexive account of the messy realities of conducting "dirty research" in a way that is open ended and embodied.

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Intuitive Practical Wisdom in Organizational Life

Cited by 26 publications

References 13 publications

Phronesis in administration and organizations: A literature review and future research agenda

Phronesis in administration and organizations: A literature review and future research agenda

Integrating Wisdom and Sustainability: Dealing with Instability

Embodying emotional dirty work: a messy text of patrolling the border

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