Investigating Being in Organizations and Leadership

Michael Fast, Ph.D., is Docent and Head of Research at Business, University College of Northern Denmark. He holds a Ph.D. from Aalborg University and worked there as Research Leader. Main research interest are in organization, leadership, philosophy of science, and qualitative methods - all on understanding development of people and organizations, and of social science and business.Kim Malmbak Meltofte Møller, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in Management Philosophy and Organizational Development at Aalborg University, Denmark. His main research is inter-disciplinary such as phenomenology of management philosophy, epistemology, organizational culture, sustainability and ethics. He has a cross-disciplinary PhD in the study of cognition at Aalborg University.

• 1: Introduction to the philosophical investigation.- 2: The individuality of experience in organizational life.- 3: The I, and of the becoming a social being.- 4: Organizational dialectics and the becoming of the organization.- 5: Leadership as the direction of being.- 6: The ethical existence of organizations.- 7: A commentary on sustainability and organizational life.