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El Aporte Antropológico De Leonardo Polo a La Universidad Y a La Teoría UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA INSTITUTO EMPRESA Y HUMANISMO EL APORTE ANTROPOLOGICO DE LEONARDO POLO A LA UNIVERSIDAD Y A LA TEORIA DE LA EMPRESA TESIS DOCTORAL Silvia Carolina Martino Director Prof. Dr. Juan Fernando Sellés Dauder Co-Directora Prof. Dra. Concepción Naval Durán PAMPLONA – ABRIL, 2017. ÍNDICE ÍNDICE .............................................................................................................................. 3 INTRODUCCIÓN ............................................................................................................. 9 Agradecimientos ........................................................................................................ 28 PRIMERA PARTE .......................................................................................................... 30 Capítulo 1. El Planteamiento Antropológico de Leonardo Polo. ............................. 30 Introducción ...................................................................................................... 30 1.1. Semblanza y trayectoria intelectual. El autor ............................................. 33 1.1.1. Recorrido intelectual y biográfico ........................................................ 34 1.2. Propuesta antropológica de Leonardo Polo ............................................... 45 1.2.1 El método filosófico poliano ................................................................ 46 1.2.2. La ampliación trascendental ................................................................. 51 1.2.3. La distinción real de esencia y acto de ser ........................................... 52 1.2.4. El hombre y el universo ....................................................................... 56 1.2.5. Sustancia, naturaleza y esencia ............................................................. 62 1.2.6. La esencia del hombre. Perfección intrínseca y extrínseca .................. 64 1.2.7. El crecimiento ....................................................................................... 66 1.2.8. ¿Por qué crecimiento irrestricto? .......................................................... 68 1.2.9. La vida como hacerse ........................................................................... 70 1.2.10. El método conveniente para conocer la esencia humana ................... 72 1.2.11. Rectificación de la noción tendencial de la voluntad ......................... 75 1.2.12. La esencia del hombre y el ser personal ............................................. 77 1.3. Tres claves de la antropología poliana ....................................................... 80 1.3.1. La naturaleza humana: la vida recibida ................................................ 80 1.3.2. La esencia del hombre: la vida añadida ................................................ 82 1.3.3. El acto de ser humano: la vida personal ............................................... 85 1.4. Corolario. Lo que se muestra y no hace falta demostrar ............................ 89 4 Silvia C. Martino SEGUNDA PARTE ........................................................................................................ 93 Capítulo 2. La Universidad. Misión. ......................................................................... 93 Introducción ...................................................................................................... 93 2.1. Algunas consideraciones previas. Las manifestaciones humanas. La complejidad y el modo de vincularlas o dualizarlas .......................................... 97 2.2. Leonardo Polo, un universitario ............................................................... 101 2.3. La misión de la universidad ..................................................................... 105 2.4. La estructura unitaria de la universidad y sus tres funciones ................... 110 2.4.1. Algunos antecedentes de la crisis de la Universidad .......................... 121 2.4.2. Algunas consecuencias derivadas de la ruptura de la unidad ............. 126 2.4.3. Teoría del conocimiento ..................................................................... 136 Capítulo 3. La Universidad y sus funciones ............................................................ 153 Introducción .................................................................................................... 153 3.1. Primera función: la investigación ............................................................. 157 3.1.1. Tipos de investigación ........................................................................ 158 3.1.2. La investigación universitaria o extrauniversitaria ............................. 160 3.1.3. Sobre los centros universitarios .......................................................... 163 3.1.4. La investigación como parte de la esencia de la universidad ............. 165 3.1.5. El saber superior como producto inexorablemente abierto al futuro . 166 3.1.6. El investigador, la clave de la solución de la crisis ............................ 175 3.2. La segunda función: la transmisión del saber .......................................... 178 3.2.1. Las Facultades .................................................................................... 180 3.2.2. El profesorado .................................................................................... 181 3.2.3. Los alumnos ........................................................................................ 186 3.2.4. Los Departamentos ............................................................................. 197 3.3. La tercera función: la extensión universitaria .......................................... 202 3.3.1. Introducción ........................................................................................ 202 3.3.2. Cultura superior y cultura de masas ................................................... 205 3.3.3. Desproletarización .............................................................................. 205 3.3.4. Propuestas de Polo para solucionar estos puntos ............................... 206 Conclusión ....................................................................................................... 211 El aporte antropológico de L. Polo a la universidad y a la teoría de la empresa 5 TERCERA PARTE ....................................................................................................... 217 Capítulo 4. Las Escuelas de Administración I. Recorrido y revisión ...................... 217 Introducción .................................................................................................... 217 4.1. Descripción usual del management y perspectiva poliana ....................... 226 4.2. Algunos antecedentes del management como disciplina y claves polianas de las organizaciones ....................................................................................... 242 4.3. La denuncia poliana ante el homo oeconomicus de la Escuela Científica (F. Taylor) ....................................................................................................... 251 4.4. La rectificación poliana del funcionalismo de la Escuela Clásica (H. Fayol) .............................................................................................................. 256 4.5. El sentido poliano del trabajo y de la empresa frente a la Escuela de Relaciones Humanas (E. Mayo). ..................................................................... 260 4.6. Una propuesta para rectificar desde el planteamiento poliano el eclecticismo pragmático de la Escuela Neoclásica (P. Drucker) .................... 267 4.7. El avance de Polo sobre el Cooperativismo Corporativo (Ch. Barnard) .. 277 4.8. La libertad es, según Polo, superior a la necesidad. Teorías del comportamiento humano ................................................................................. 287 Capítulo 5. Las Escuelas de Administración II. Recorrido y revisión ..................... 299 Introducción .................................................................................................... 299 5.1. Líder, según Polo y según las teorías del Liderazgo (Universidad de Michigan, Ph. Selznick) .................................................................................. 299 5.2. Críticas polianas a la escuela Estructuralista o Burocracias (M. Weber, Merton, Etzioni) .............................................................................................. 307 5.3. Reparos de Polo ante el mito del progreso indefinido y la concepción de la Escuela de Desarrollo Organizacional (Laurence y Lorsch, Reddin y Blacke y Mouton). .......................................................................................................... 311 5.4. Revisión poliana del método analítico del Enfoque Cuantitativo- matemático ...................................................................................................... 322 5.5. Visión poliana de los sistemas y teoría de sistemas en las organizacio- nes .................................................................................................................... 323 5.6. Amplitud de la visión poliana de la empresa frente a la polarización del Enfoque del Management Estratégico (H. Minztberg) ................................... 327 5.7. Modelo antropológico de J.A. Pérez López: Teoría antropológica ‘humana’, y el añadido de L. Polo: Teoría antropológica ‘personal’. ............. 338 5.8. Polo en diálogo con los nuevos planteamientos de management: Teorías de la contingencia o situacionales adaptativas. ..............................................
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