دانلود رایگان مقاله مکالمات wisdom: پدیده شناسی هرمنوتیک انسانی (EHP) برای مدیران پروژه

Abstract

This paper introduces Existential Hermeneutic Phenomenology (EHP) as an approach to reflecting on and studying the lived experience of project management practice. We argue that an EHP way of being is an effective approach for any practitioner confronted by significant existential disruptions to their practice. We develop our proposition of ‘the wisdom of conversations’ as an EHP enabled way for project managers' practical coping with otherwise potentially inhibiting existential disruptions. We understand EHP as a holistic philosophical practice which: 1. allows making the ‘lived experience’ of project management practice explicit for reflection, and 2. is available and useful to practitioners in the field. Heidegger provides the theoretical base through a language of existential categories, which are dimensions of being-in-the-world. Gendlin offers a practical method for accessing the states of being that Heidegger describes. Rorty offers promise, the ability to disclose new possibilities or ways of being-in-the-world through irony and practices of re-description. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd, APM and IPMA. All rights reserved.

6. Conclusions

In this paper we have demonstrated how EHP allows for the transformation of what from a scientific point of view seems like an anomaly into a central part of the lived experience of managing projects: dealing with the surprise of unexpected disruptions is central to being a manager of projects. The temporality of moments of disruptive surprises are neither experiences to be avoided nor are they indicators that something has “gone wrong” with the project. They are not occasions for self-doubt in a project manager. On the contrary, they are opportunities for re-imagining a project and thus for disclosing hitherto unexpected possibilities for the realisation of the project.