Abstract

CASTRILLON, Sergio. Old Age, Wisdom and Management. cuad.adm. [online]. 2009, n.41, pp.93-117. ISSN 0120-4645.

Sophophobia² in management? The negative effects caused by economic dynamics and of the current management practices; indicate the absence of prudence in multiple dimensions of contemporary administration. In order to help counter these disfunctions, the first part of this article exhorts readers to discover the wisdom inspired by aging, presenting several advantages of such approximation. The second part of the article, applies concrete evocations of old age to approach organizational problems at different levels: praxeological, epistemological, axiological, and ontological. For each one of these dimensions, there is a section that discusses latent pathological deviations, and also proposes wise examples and reflections related to ageing, which hopefully would enrich, in a creative manner, the theories and practices of administration.

Keywords : Management; Philosophical Foundations; Wisdom; Old Age; Ageing; Praxeology; Epistemology; Axiology; Ontology; Critique; Pathologies of Management.

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