Pondy, Lou: Mentor of My Mentor

Yue Cai Hillon ()
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Yue Cai Hillon: Western Carolina University

Chapter 78 in The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers, 2021, pp 1359-1373 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Lou Pondy was one of the rare thought leaders in our field who knew how to make a science out of management and organization. His training brought about a unique convergence of Lewin’s line of social scientists with those of the Carnegie School, actively merging in the curious mind of a physicist. This multi-interdisciplinary grounding in social science meant that Pondy took a phenomenological approach to people and organizations, with data on symbolic and objective organizational realities always open to multiple interpretations. Moreover, he knew how to share this perspective on research as a mentor to encourage and nurture a purposeful balanced life.

Keywords: Conflict; Symbolism; Open systems; Lewin; Carnegie School (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-38324-4_120

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