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Italian Chapter Meeting

Il Capitolo Italiano 2020 Il 31 di Gennaio 2020 ci sarà il primo meeting annuale via zoom del capitolo Italiano. Connettetevi per conoscerci e per essere aggiornati sui nostri progetti futuri. Date: Friday, Gen 31, 2020 Time: 18:00 – 19:00 Roma time (GMT +1) Location: https://zoom.us/j/5102359757 Agenda: – Partnership con la Società Italiana di Management (SIMA) – Update su Journal, Libro e Special Issue – Partecipazione Euram/AoM – Evento annuale/eventuale acceleratore – Read more […]

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Humanistic Management Conference Sessions at the Indian Academy of Management

There are several scholars in India doing good work that is perfectly aligned with the Humanistic Management values and goals. This community is connecting at the Indian Academy of Management Conference at the Indian Institute of Management – Trichy, where there are several paper sessions, and an Improv workshop and a panel on Humanistic Management.

2019/2020 Fellows

Dr. Sophia Town – Arizona State University

Dr. Sophia Town earned her Ph.D. in organizational communication from Arizona State University. Her research, which spans the fields of organizational communication and management, is humanistic, use-inspired and guided by one key question: “How can scholars and practitioners promote human flourishing in organizations?”

2019/2020 Fellows

Anke Winchenbach – School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at the University of Surrey, UK

Anke Winchenbach is an ESRC funded PhD researcher and teaching fellow in the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at the University of Surrey, UK. Her research focuses on understanding livelihood diversification from fishing into tourism in coastal communities in the UK. Utilising dignity as the guiding concept, the project will explore how people experience and understand their lives in relation to their work in times of social change and declining natural resources

Applied Humanism: How to create more effective and ethical businesses by Jennifer Hancock
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New Book: Applied Humanism: How to Create more Effective and Ethical Businesses

You can’t understand humanistic business management unless you understand what humanism is. This book provides a short introduction to the philosophy of humanism and discusses how and why it is being applied to business and why it is so effective when you do so. Humanism helps us prioritize human value as important. It supports positive interpersonal relationships and collaborative and respectful decision-making. Since all businesses are in the business of solving problems, good problem solving is essential to good business.

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Thinking about the poverty line

An important question for business leaders is whether they are paying their employees enough to have decent lives. Certainly, if they think that the government poverty threshold is too low, isn’t it their duty to pay much more than the minimum wage? After all, labor productivity has been increasing in the past years while real wages have been stagnant. Shouldn’t workers get a higher share of this productivity increase?

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