The human organization of time : temporal realities and experience / Allen C. Bluedorn.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Stanford business booksPublisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Business Books, 2002Description: xii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0804741077
  • 9780804741071
Subject(s):
Contents:
All Times Are Not the Same -- Temporal Realities -- Polychronicity -- Seldom Early, Never Late -- Eternal Horizons -- Convergence -- The Best of Times and the Worst of Times -- Carpe Diem -- New Times -- The Temporal Depth Index and Its Development.
Summary: "Addresses the relationships between time and life on three fundamental premises: (1) all times are not the same, (2) all times are social constructions, and (3) the times humanity creates direct the way humanity lives. The book addresses the major ways in which times differ (polychronicity, speed and punctuality, and orientation to past, present and future), how these differences are coordinated (entrainment), and how these differences affect human life, including such extreme effects that produce the best and worst of times. Building on these differences and the effects they produce, the author examines the possibility of humanity consciously creating more good times than bad. Throughout the analysis, a vital connection between time and life gradually emerges, namely, the impact of time on the meaning of life itself. Materials from several disciplines inform the discussions, notably theory and research from the social and behavioral sciences, in particular the organization sciences. The author uses historical examples extensively throughout the book, but also presents new results that derive from original data he has collected"--Bookjacket.
Holdings
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room HM656 .B58 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000041539

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-337) and index.

All Times Are Not the Same -- Temporal Realities -- Polychronicity -- Seldom Early, Never Late -- Eternal Horizons -- Convergence -- The Best of Times and the Worst of Times -- Carpe Diem -- New Times -- The Temporal Depth Index and Its Development.

"Addresses the relationships between time and life on three fundamental premises: (1) all times are not the same, (2) all times are social constructions, and (3) the times humanity creates direct the way humanity lives. The book addresses the major ways in which times differ (polychronicity, speed and punctuality, and orientation to past, present and future), how these differences are coordinated (entrainment), and how these differences affect human life, including such extreme effects that produce the best and worst of times. Building on these differences and the effects they produce, the author examines the possibility of humanity consciously creating more good times than bad. Throughout the analysis, a vital connection between time and life gradually emerges, namely, the impact of time on the meaning of life itself. Materials from several disciplines inform the discussions, notably theory and research from the social and behavioral sciences, in particular the organization sciences. The author uses historical examples extensively throughout the book, but also presents new results that derive from original data he has collected"--Bookjacket.

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Thoughts on the nature of time, philosophical, sociological, psychorlogical, antropological

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