The Trilogy of Mindfulness, the Human Side of Organizations and Creative Thinking in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day

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1 University of Tehran Kish International Campus

2 استادیار دانشگاه تهران

Abstract

The goal of this study is to analyze through Drake’s model of the human side of organizational principles, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. The novel will be analyzed using Barthes’s literary codes which originate from Taoism and Zen philosophy as sources of creative thinking. Ishiguro novels foreground the behavioral and classi- cal organizations, hence welcome a comprehensive study between literature and social sciences. The role of humanistic organizations in providing a better chance of growth both for the organization and its human compartments has exceeded the boundaries of social sciences and management, as behavioral approach of leading organizations has become a major development in honoring personal identity. Michael Drafke has deter- mined the kind of proper interaction between decision-makers and subordinates in field researches. These theories of the human side of organizations are mostly for behavioral management, a short coming in the literature have been addressed. The epistemology and ontology of the behavioral approach have been to the benefit of decision-makers and subordinates. In The Remains of the Day, the dominant organizational implications are classical. The core claim of this study is that it informs a blending of behavioral and classical approaches to be implemented between decision-makers and subordinates who are unequal educationally and characteristically as a pragmatic strategy. This study concludes that an appropriate blending of these two approaches can have pragmatic re- sults to pave the way for implementing a full behavioral approach that is able to establish an equilibrium between humanity and organization.
Introduction:Organizations have to be reformed in order to fulfil the most important re- quirements of humanity for the sake of empowerment of the human side of organizations. The gradual change from classical view of organizational decision making to behavioral cooperation for the same goal has been in this direction. Ishiguro’s novel is written in an expanded humanistic tradition to demonstrate a new approach towards Drafke’s orga- nizational principles.

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