The Company Democracy Model : Creating Innovative Democratic Work Cultures for Effective Organizational Knowledge-Based Management and Leadership

Company democracy is often misunderstood in the business context as democracy is usually related to politics. In this book, the authors present a different dimension. They focus first on democracy from an organizational culture perspective and then offer employees opportunities to understand and apply democracy from the company floor level.

The Company Democracy Model (CDM) is an industry-wide, practical methodology for knowledge management utilization under applied philosophical thinking. The model progresses through a framework in which an organizational evolutionary spiral method empowers the creation of knowledge-based democratic cultures for wise and effective strategic management and leadership. This new innovative methodology, supported with techniques and processes, can gain/create many ideas, insights, innovations, new products, and services that can benefit a company.

One purpose of using the model is to create a robust conceptual framework as a theoretical basis for a business strategy that promotes sustainable, continuous, and democratic development. Another purpose is to emphasize the importance of intellectual capital and compare capital-related and human-related business issues in shaping a company’s competitiveness, profitability, productivity, performance, and shared value. A third purpose is to use its symbolic infrastructure that builds solid democratic systems for viable business development and management. Finally, the described purposes give the reader new ideas to change and improve the design of business activities in a collective and modern democratic way.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Authors
Book Structure

Section 1 : Applied Philosophy
Chapter 1 : Science and Theory Precede Practice: A Scientific  Framework for the Applied Philosophy Approach in Management and Leadership
Chapter 2 : Delphic Maxims’ Ontology-Based Taxonomies for Applied Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Ancient Hellenic Philosophy in Business and Governance Management and Leadership
Chapter 3 : Visualization of the Wisdom Cube: Wisdom Space for Management and Leadership
Chapter 4 : The Company Democracy Culture: Understanding Culture and Dynamics
Chapter 5 : Dimensions in Company Performance: The Power of Co-Evolution
Chapter 6 : Managing and Leading Democratically: Achieving Democratic Balance

Section 2 : Human Focus in Living Systems
Chapter 7 : The Holistic Concept of Man in the Business Environment: The Concepts We Live By
Chapter 8 : The Circles of Mind Metaphor: Actors on the Stage of Consciousness
Chapter 9 : Harnessing Modern Knowledge Systems: Applying Knowledge Frameworks
Chapter 10 : The Cross-Scientific Approach for Human-Compatible Systems: Acting with Modern Decision Tools
Chapter 11 : Agility Application, Ontology, and Concepts in a Technology Company Context: Agility Boosts Collective Wisdom

Section 3 : The Company Democracy Model
Chapter 12 : The Company Democracy Model for Organizational Management and Leadership Strategies: Democratic Innovation for Competitiveness and Extroversion
Chapter 13 : The Levels of the Company Democracy Model: A Spiral Co-evolution
Chapter 14 : Human Perception, Interpretation, Understanding, and Communication of Company Democracy: Building Co-opetitive Ecosystems
Chapter 15 : The Company Democracy Model for Human Intellectual Capitalism and Shared Value Creation: Toward Added Value and Circular Economies
Chapter 16 : Maturity Spaces for Company Democracy: The Seven Clouds of Glory
Chapter 17 : The Dynamics of Company Democracy Culture: Enlightening the Black Hole in Knowledge Management
Chapter 18 : Applying the Company Democracy Model: From Theory to Practice
Chapter 19 : Repetition Is the Mother of Studying, Learning, and Internalization: Concluding Remarks for the Company Democracy Model and Applied Philosophy for Management and Leadership

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