自省是儒家思想体系中的核心理念之一,对于个体自我完善与自我提升意义重大,但学界尚未对其构念进行操作化研究,为此采用扎根理论的程序与方法,对源自管理者深度访谈、儒家"四书五经"、历代大儒(董仲舒、朱熹、程颢/程颐、王阳明等)典籍著作以及网络素材中有关儒家自省的内容进行筛选、编码与分析,开发出"儒家自省"的构念,发现儒家自省主要由省事、省人、省心3个主要维度构成,三者相互联系,互为补充。在此基础上,探讨了儒家自省构念的理论意义与实践启发。
As one of the most important concepts of Confucianism, introspection plays crucial role during the process of individual self-improvement and growth. However, the conceptual structure of Confucian introspection (CI) has not been discussed for the purpose of operationalization. Employing the process and method of grounded theory, this paper tries to develop the construct of CI based on the data from in-depth interviews with managers, Confucian classical books, and webpages. Results show that CI is mainly composed of three dimensions, namely, problem-oriented CI, person-oriented CI, and heart-oriented CI. These three dimensions are interrelated and complemented with each other. This paper further discusses the theoretical contributions and practical implications of CI.