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    ORGANIZATIONAL EXISTENTIALISM AS A PARADIGM FOR STUDYING ORGANIZATIONS
    (UMT,Lahore, 2011) RANA ZAMIN ABBAS
    The corresponding study has been undertaken in order to understand and explore the most significant, prime and important area of discussion in the perspective of prevailing corporate world as the corporate greed and sense of profit maximization has damaged and tarnished the integrity of human essence and man is being dealt as nothing more than a machine in an organization. In the wake of recent financial crisis, it has become necessary to explore ways and means reinforcing ethical consciousness as a deterrent to the intrinsic drivers such as interplay of greed damaging the interest of stakeholders and even threatening the very existence of the company as well jeopardizing the careers of executives and employees. Organizational Existentialism (OE) draws upon the philosophy of existentialism and is currently used by management researchers (O’Toole, 1993; James G. March, 1988; Mintzberg, 1987; Pauchant and Mitroff, 1992) to understand the complexity of facts and emerging dynamics of organizational life. This research study seeks to explain the relevance and usefulness of OE in reinforcing ethical awareness and moral foundations of decision-making in organizations in an attempt to develop internal mechanism for moderation and control of actions based on pure greed. The core objectives of this research study are the determination of the ethical behavior of entrepreneurs and managers in an organization. The applied methodology of research is based upon the epistemology of constructionism and theoretical perspective of interpretivism. The major conclusion derived in the viewpoint of the specific research is that the study of organizational ethics is fairly probable via utilization of existentialism as a comprehensive and concrete tool that paves the way towards comprehending the customary issues in an organization and provides relevant solution to these.