Looking Existentially at Planning and Counselling in Organisations
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https://doi.org/10.65828/fdwads75Abstract
There are two usages of the word 'plan', the scientific and existential. Each has implications for the way organisations plan their future and how people in organisations should be counselled. The 1990s organisation has particular need of existential counselling because of the loss of boundaries in the structure of work and careers. Authentic existence can take the place of the career for life. This approach requires a concept of 'plan' in the existential sense. Scientific associations of 'plan' with strategy, schedules and goals mean that there can be resistance to existential counselling. This is anachronistic as at the organisational level, the idea of plan as creative improvisation within flexible boundaries is becoming more widely accepted.
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