Abstract

The paper proposes to apply Martin Heidegger’s ontology to management sciences, especially those that are used for diagnosis and synthesis of social and ethics problems. Phenomenological analysis shows that ethical management is extremely difficult. A major barrier is a strong technocratic paradigm. Contemporary management sciences unfortunately constantly based on the technocratic paradigm. It seems that we should abandon in education and managerial action the technocratic model and introduce the personalistic phenomenological model. Personalistic phenomenology allows the construction of stable foundations of management sciences. Martin Heidegger’s ontology is one of the major inspiration in the creation of a new paradigm of management. In my phenomenology, the main instrument is a “phenomenological lens”. Phenomenological lens focuses on what is ontological and what is ontic, existential and existentic – in Heidegger’s sense. It allows for more accurate analysis of the object – both from the philosophical and scientific perspective. Phenomenological lens is the key concept of the phenomenological praxeology and, at the same time, a crucial instrument in the diagnosis and development of an organization. As a meta-method, it gives a view of the object from different perspectives and acts as a “binder”, linking diverse factors affecting this object.