Yin Yang and Organizational Performance Five Elements for Improvemen

Presenting an innovative approach to the field of organizational management, this book proposes a Yin Yang (cosmological) perspective as an alternative to existing management concepts, serving to conceptualize the organization processes in a more holistic

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n Yang and Organizational Performance Five Elements for Improvement and Success

Yin Yang and Organizational Performance

Kris M. Y. Law Marko Kesti •

Yin Yang and Organizational Performance Five Elements for Improvement and Success

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Kris M. Y. Law Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Kowloon, Hong Kong China

Marko Kesti University of Lapland Lapland Finland

ISBN 978-1-4471-6388-6 ISBN 978-1-4471-6389-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-6389-3 Springer London Heidelberg New York Dordrecht

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Linking the Ancient Wisdom to the Contemporary Management Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 Chapter Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Yin Yang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.1 What is ‘‘I Ching?’’ and What is Concept of Change?. . 1.2.2 The Balance, the Change, and Yin Yang . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Correlative Cosmology (Five Elements) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.1 Correlative Cosmology (Five Elements) Relationships . .