Submitted by Jennifer Hancock
How we think about human resources matter. Are human resources – resources to be exploited? Or collaborators in capital development? This article – from Non-profit Quarterly – on how non-profits can and should transform how they think of their employees is relevant to all people interested in humanistic management.
“Rather than conceiving of these forms of [human] capital as something our organizations extract, we should think of them as precious resources to be shared and amplified across all of the organization’s relationships. We can think of this as shifting from an extraction to a reciprocity frame.”