Abstract:
Aesthetics relates to felt meaning generated from sensory perceptions، and involves subjective، tacit knowledge rooted in feeling and emotion. We believe the aesthetics of management is important، but little understood، aspect of organizational life. We propose that followers use their aesthetic senses in making these assessments. In this article we try to discover the role of aesthetic in management and then try to find out the style of about 130 industrial and governmental top managers in Iran using some technique such as questionnaire and interview. The personality and character of them will be recognized by some test such as KAI، MBIT، CPS، Cooper-Smith self-esteem، management style، machiavellism، internal and external control، behavior، attitude and their methods in problem solving and decision making، and the effect of this ability in productivity of their organization.
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Faculty of Management, University of Tehran Abstract: Aesthetics relates to felt meaning generated from sensory perceptions, and involves subjective, tacit knowledge rooted in feeling and emotion.
The personality and character of them will be recognized by some test such as KAI, MBIT, CPS, Cooper-Smith self-esteem, management style, machiavellism, internal and external control, behavior, attitude and their methods in problem solving and decision making, and the effect of this ability in productivity of their organization.
While previous management studies have largely taken an instrumental approach to what works, aesthetics also sheds light on what works, but what works aesthetically, what seems to agree with our tacit knowledge or implicit feelings and emotions regarding a particular context (Boal, Hunt, 2003).
In applying aesthetic methods to management topics, we highlight the importance of the getting at the experiential and contextual, and inquiry into leaders and followers sensory and felt meanings constructed in subjective processes that rely on aesthetic knowledge (Campbell, Rudich, 2001).
Aesthetics is about sensory knowledge and felt meaning, and concerns itself with feelings and emotions and the richness of qualities, so researchers will have to engage organizations with methods that are appropriate for these types of phenomena.
To answer this question we design some questionnaires to extract the real feature of these managers by using some standard technique such as KAI (Kirton adoption-innovation inventory) test, MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicators) test, Cooper-Smith self-esteem test, TTCT (Torrance Test of Creative Thinking), machiavellism, courage test…Through these test we insert some special question to know if they use their aesthetic ability to make decision, solve problem or judge between people.