An Existential-Systems Approach To Managing Organizations.(Review)

An Existential-Systems Approach To Managing Organizations Joe Kelly and Louise Kelly Westport, CT: Quorom Books, 1998 262 pp., cloth, $65.00

Reviewed by Dana V. Tesone University of Hawaii

Joe Kelly is retired Professor of Management, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He is currently a consultant specializing in organization restructure, executive development and structured sensitivity training.

Louise Kelly is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University, Boston. Her research interests include the intuitive and emotional aspects of strategic decision making and family business management.

Joe and Louise Kelly have collaborated to provide a book on Organizational Behavior titled: An Existential-Systems Approach To Managing Organizations. The book is designed for professional managers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students of business. The overall theme of the text is the individual's search for meaning through work.

The book is divided into six parts which cover topics related to organizational …