Continual pressure on managers, their efficiency, and the need to search for novel solutions to problems can lead to psychologically demanding situations. In efforts to understand the main obstacles to work and to effectively manage work-related processes, and in the need to achieve personal development, new approaches that are based on existential philosophies emerge. The aim of this article is to highlight the ways in which existential approaches have been used or discussed in management and to show that existential themes and their applications in management can also be found in the Eastern tradition of thought. The paper presents six case vignettes from management practice that use Western and Eastern existential insights and offer recommendations for self-development of managers. The paper concludes that although it is difficult or impossible to create a unified framework of existential philosophy of management because of the diversity of existential approaches and because of the problematic nature of comparing Eastern and Western philosophies, it is possible to work towards gathering applicable insights and values.

管理者的持续压力、他们的效率以及寻找新的问题解决方案的需要可能导致心理上的苛刻情况。为了努力理解工作的主要障碍和有效管理与工作相关的流程，以及实现个人发展的需要，出现了基于存在主义哲学的新方法。本文的目的是强调在管理中使用或讨论存在主义方法的方式，并表明存在主义主题及其在管理中的应用也可以在东方思想传统中找到。本文介绍了来自管理实践的六个案例小插曲，它们使用了西方和东方的存在主义见解，并为管理者的自我发展提供了建议。