Overview
- Introduces concept of 'sensory templates' into the field of managerial cognition
- Includes tools and frameworks to implement arts and spiritual-based methods in management education
- Encompasses a wide variety of disciplines including management studies, neuroscience and religious studies
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities (PSBAH)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theory
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Cases
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About this book
This book explores the role of art and spiritual practices in management education. It takes recent developments in cognitive science relating to the metaphorical and embodied nature of cognition as its starting point. Introducing the concept of ‘sensory templates’, Springborg demonstrates how managers unconsciously understand organizational situations and actions as analogous to concrete sensorimotor experiences, such as pushing, pulling, balancing, lifting, moving with friction, connecting and moving various substances. Real-life management and leadership case studies illustrate how changing the sensory templates one uses to understand a particular situation can increase managerial efficiency and bring simple solutions to problems that have troubled managers for years. Sensory Templates and Manager Cognition will be of interest to scholars and students of managerial cognition, leadership and neuroscience, as well as practising managers and management educators.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Claus Springborg offers leadership development programmes for both groups and individuals with CoCreation, based on work with art and spiritual practices and theories of Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Metaphor Theory. He also leads meditation groups with the Sensing Mind Institute in London, Edinburgh and Copenhagen and at the Findhorn Foundation. He has a background as a dancer (tango and contact improvisation) and a choral conductor. He undertook his doctoral research on art-based methods in management education at Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sensory Templates and Manager Cognition
Book Subtitle: Art, Cognitive Science and Spiritual Practices in Management Education
Authors: Claus Springborg
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71794-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71793-7Published: 16 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10110-7Published: 28 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71794-4Published: 29 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-1266
Series E-ISSN: 2662-1274
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 295
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Management Education, Faith, Spirituality and Business