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Humanistic Management and Evidence-Based Practice

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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 […]

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Developing Human Capital: Moving from Extraction to Reciprocity in Our Organizational Relationships

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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 Read more […]

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Dignity- the missing link

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Michael Pirson won the Social Issues in Management (SIM) Division’s Best Book Award at this year’s Academy of Management Conference. He is an associate professor at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University . Dr Johanne Grosvold, Deputy Director of the Centre for Business, Organisations and Society, chaired the SIM Division’s Best Book Award Committee, and as such was privy to all the books nominated for this year’s award. It was an extremely competitive field, yet the committee was unanimous in its assessment of which book should be the winner of the award in 2018. Michael Pirson’s book Humanistic Management offers a timely and novel reminder of the importance of human dignity.

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Reflections on Humanistic Management

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“Thus, human beings are not “homo economos”: mere consumers, resources, or a means to some other person’s profitable end. Human beings are “homo sapiens” capable of loving, caring, and extending themselves so that others may gain and move forward not only materially, but totally, in a completely personalistic way.”

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