International Humanistic Management Association
protecting dignity – promoting well-being
Michael Gerson, a columnist for the Washington Post, recently wrote a piece calling for a revival of humanism. Here is a brief excerpt of Gerson's reflections:
Most Western societies, including the United States, have reached the stage of secularism without humanism. Our greatest efforts are spent on getting and keeping. Our defining creed is consumerism. Our memorials, according to T.S. Eliot, will be “the asphalt road and a thousand lost golf balls.”...What we need is a revival of humanism.
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Moving from Extraction to Reciprocity in Work Relationships with Jeanne Bell, Director of Practice Advancement for Non Profit Quarterly.
Join us Feb 22nd Noon Eastern for this Humanistic Management Professionals Lunch and Learn
RSVP at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moving-from-extraction-to-reciprocity-in-work-relationships-humanistic-management-professionals-tickets-53885360564
"If we can shift from thinking of our organizational relationships as “human resources” to be managed—their Read more [...]
Greta Thunberg, a 15 year old climate leader, calls for her fellow leaders to participate in a global climate strike on December 14th. She states:
Climate leaders don’t just talk. They act.
Link to her video call on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BrSvuayBhaO/
Submitted by: Jennifer Hancock
A humanistic approach to business is a way of understanding the interrelated nature of the problems we are solving and the people for who and with whom we are working. We are never simply solving one problem. All the problems of the company are related. We don’t want to fix one problem and create another problem if we can avoid it.
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Submitted by Thomas Schauer:
For your reading pleasure, please find attached the pdf version of the latest Report to the Club of Rome "Transformation is Feasible" by Jorgen Randers, Johan Rockström, and their team. Further distribution is welcome.
Here is a brief excerpt from the report:
This new report to the Club of Rome “Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals within Planetary Boundaries”, by Jörgen Randers, Johan Rockström and Per-Espen Stoknes, is the forty-sixth Read more [...]
Beyond Empowerment to Self Management with Doug Kirkpatrick
Join us Jan 25th 2019 at noon eastern for this Humanistic Management Professionals Lunch and Learn
Register at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-empowerment-to-self-management-humanistic-management-professionals-lunch-and-learn-tickets-53355375364
Co-creating a self-managed organizational ecosystem is more than just employee engagement, business performance, retention, and less bureaucracy. It’s the right thing to do.
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Submitted by Henry Leveson-Gower:
Teaching in most management schools is dominated by mainstream economic thinking of maximising shareholder value and growth. If management schools are more generally going to move to a more humanistic approach to management, the dominance of mainstream economic thinking needs to be reduced. This is also clearly crucial to change how we organise our economy so that it is sustainable, fair and resilient. We have a strategy to do this and we hope to collaborate Read more [...]
