Abstract
The contemporary leadership concept manifests trends of continuous improvement, which is why this paper is an approach to the field from the perspective of philosophical counseling practices, different from current training and development programs for managers. Thus, the new opportunities are identified, which can join business education and personal development programs for leaders. The paper analyzes the characteristics of coaching studies compared to those of philosophical counseling applied in organizations, using the concept of philosophical leadership in order to identify the existence of interdisciplinary links between the two fields. The intensity of these links was studied through the bibliometric analysis performed on the concepts of leadership and philosophy, which were the subject of papers published in relevant journals indexed in the international database Clarivate Analytics–Web of Science Core Collection. The results of the analysis showed a close connection between concepts, which confirms their association. Through the practical applications of philosophy in the leadership, an innovation of the programs takes place of current specialization dedicated to leaders, which contain tools and methods that can be taken from philosophical practices, to achieve high-performance leadership programs. The concept of philosophical leadership can have a sustainable approach which can be included in personal development programs addressed to leaders, and will be delivered in the form of leader service packages, in which other specialists can participate, such as philosophical counseling, who can be successfully involved in the development of the leadership training program (LTP).
Highlights
With the rediscovery of philosophical practices in Europe and around the world, and the establishment of the first associations of practitioners, some philosophers moved from the academic to the applied area, by opening philosophical practice offices and offering counseling services, which later led to the emergence of the first specialists in philosophical and ethical counseling
We propose in the paper to conduct a bibliometric analysis in the literature, especially papers published in journals indexed in the Web of Science (WoS), to highlight the current situation and show the still low interest in this type of promotion of information on practical applications of philosophy, in the form of specialized counseling and consultancy
We observe some differences generated by the approach of each program, and the common interests of the two types of analyzed programs, manifested by the form of services offered to people and organizations interested in the development of the leader. These services can be offered in the form of a coaching program or personal development practice, which can be completed with a program called philosophical leadership, both of which are intended for the manager or leader of an organization
Summary
With the rediscovery of philosophical practices in Europe and around the world, and the establishment of the first associations of practitioners, some philosophers moved from the academic to the applied area, by opening philosophical practice offices and offering counseling services, which later led to the emergence of the first specialists in philosophical and ethical counseling. We notice the tendency of practitioners to organize regular meetings (every two years) for exchanges of information, presentations of works or results derived from practice, applied seminars and workshops for training All this information has been collected and published in collective volumes of papers [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9], which has reduced the interest of practitioners to publish papers in scientific journals; this concern is sporadically manifested only by those who have kept in touch with the academia or those engaged in research projects conducted in the new field of applied philosophy [10]. The beneficiaries of this study are those interested in conducting university projects and specialization and training programs, or the specialists involved in continuous professional training and the professional associations interested in developing training, specialization and improvement programs in the field
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