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Humanistic Management and Evidence-Based Practice

On March 22nd 2019, Rob Briner, Professor of Organizational Psychology in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London, joined the Humanistic Professionals for a lunch and learn on evidence based management. Key take-aways were: It is important to cross validate your sources of information Question why you want to do the things you do. What are you really trying to accomplish. Define your project and ideal outcome before you look for a solution You don't Read more [...]
Is Love All We Need? Call for Abstracts: Love and the Organization

Is Love All We Need? Call for Abstracts: Love and the Organization

Submitted by Michael Pirson: Call for Submissions: June 15, 2019 "Is love all we need? If so, how can we organize for it?  This call for paper is calling for submissions to explore this side of the inquiry into love and organizing. What’s love got to do with it? Love may have nothing to do with the organization, especially in the administrative and market-based context. The call is also exploring this side of the inquiry. To explore this tension expressed in popular songs we are inviting Read more [...]
Transforming Business Education with Stuart Hart

Transforming Business Education with Stuart Hart

Please join the International Humanistic Management Association and Sandra Waddock, Boston College, for an Intellectual Shaman Conversation with Stuart Hart, University of Vermont, Grossman School of Business. Date: Friday, March 15Time: 11:00 am – 12:00pm (EDT)Location: Web conferencing, details will be sent before the event once your RSVP is received Transforming Business Education series as hosted by IHMA as a Pedagogical Development format. It is co-sponsored by Fordham University's Gabelli Read more [...]
Jeanne Bell: Moving from Extraction to Reciprocity in Work Relationships

Jeanne Bell: Moving from Extraction to Reciprocity in Work Relationships

Jeanne Bell: Moving from Extraction to Reciprocity in Work Relationships "If we can shift from thinking of our organizational relationships as “human resources” to be managed—their capital to be extracted over the life of the relationship—and shift to a frame of deep reciprocity, we will find as leaders that it is indeed those relationships above all else that allow our organizations to accomplish the most extraordinary things."-- Jeanne Bell, MNA Humanistic managers want our organizations Read more [...]
Engaging Research for the Global Compact- Anita McGahan and Oliver Williams

Engaging Research for the Global Compact- Anita McGahan and Oliver Williams

Please join MSR and SIM Division of Academy of Management in a discussion with Anita McGahan (72nd AOM president) and Oliver Williams (Founding Board Member, United Nations Global Compact) in a conversation on how research can help advance the goals of the Global Compact. Hosted by the International Humanistic Management Association. Date: Monday, March 25 Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00pm (EDT)Location: Web conferencing, details will be sent before the event once your RSVP is received Topic for this Read more [...]
From Sandwich to Bagel Management

From Sandwich to Bagel Management

Sandwiches and bagels and donuts, oh my! Dr. Michael Pirson offers some colorful metaphors on management in his latest piece, "From Sandwich to Bagel Management" in The Manila Times. Here is a brief excerpt: "When you look at the world it probably does not look like a sandwich, it looks more like a burger. In our business schools, however, we portray our world much like a triangular American-style Bologna sandwich, standing on its side sloping upwards. In my teaching I bring this triangular Read more [...]
Counting What Counts: Why Social Accounting MATTERS

Counting What Counts: Why Social Accounting MATTERS

(Submitted by Jennifer Hancock) Read Dr. Elizabeth Castillo's (IHMA member and co-host of our recurring Humanistic Management Professionals Lunch and Learns) latest article on "Counting What Counts: Why Social Accounting MATTERS". This article was featured in the winter 2018 edition of the Nonprofit Quarterly. In this piece, Dr. Castillo narrates the necessity of social accounting in a society that largely focuses on financial accounting. Here is a brief excerpt from the article: "However, Read more [...]

Humanistic Management Workshop

  The Institute for Ethics in Communication and Organizations (IECO) at University of Valencia (UV) and the Real Colegio Complutense (RCC) at Harvard University, in collaboration with the Humanistic Management Centers Consortium and the Abigail Adams Institute (AAI), organize this First Humanistic Management Workshop. Purpose We conceive this event as the seed for a future IHMA Learning Lab (LELA). This would be the first step for establishing a community of learning, based on humanistic Read more [...]

Necessary Conversations

This Necessary Conversation is sponsored by the Donahue Center for Business Ethics & Social Responsibility in the Manning School of Business at UMass-Lowell. Necessary Conversations,” a web-enabled forum (we use the Zoom platform) with a global audience. Our goal for this event is to feature progressive and trans-formative approaches and new paradigms for protecting dignity and promoting well-being —human through planetary — in our organizing practices. This is a video conference series Read more [...]