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Applying the Principles of Humanistic Management – Humanistic Management Professionals Lunch and Learn

Topic Applying the Principles of Humanistic Management What: This is a live zoom video conference - details on how to participate provided upon registration When: Aug 23, 2019 at noon eastern. Overview: Humanism is a philosophy that centers on respect for your fellow humans. It is a recognition that our behavior impacts others. We don’t live in a vacuum. When we are in a leadership position, we have even more responsibility to do good, not just for ourselves, but for our team as Read more [...]
The Economy of Francesco

The Economy of Francesco

Pope Francis invites young ECONOMISTS, ENTREPRENEURS & CHANGE-MAKERS to ASSISI, which for centuries has been the symbol of humanistic fraternity, to make a COMMITMENT: forge a new fair, sustainable and inclusive economy that leaves no one behind. Are you under 35? Do you do research in the field of sustainability? Are you a changemaker? An enlivened entrepreneur? You will get to meet with top sustainability experts in the field for an intense two-day workshop and finally meet Pope Read more [...]

Sherri Sutton on Using Appreciative Inquiry to Create Positive Profitable Change

On April 26, 2019, the Humanistic Management Professionals group hosted Sherri Sutton from Positive Impact Force for a conversation on Appreciative Inquiry. Sherri provided an overview of the process and shared advice and tips on how to use this both in our personal lives and in our professional lives and how the process can be used to help organizations figure out how to improve their processes.  She said the very act of asking questions can help create change. One of the main questions she 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 [...]

PhD Network

Welcome to IHMA's Humanistic Management PhD Network. This year we are looking forward to supporting PhDs with even more mentoring, social support and research opportunities. We also have possibilities to connect researchers for publication work, and data gathering sites in companies and organizations connected to IHMA. Please feel free to join our monthly calls. The PhD Network webinar is held the first Monday of every month at 10:00 (Eastern time). In our monthly gatherings the Humanistic Management Read more [...]

Awakening Calls

There are three podcasts, and written transcripts, with Sandra Waddock, Otto Scharmer and Anil Sachdev that I think will fit the needs of audience for the IHMA web-readers.

Upcoming Events Virtue Ethics in Business Research Group

Events Calendar 2018   JUNE 8 VEIB WORKSHOP School of Economics and Business, University of Navarra Teaching Business Ethics Workshop Program Registration   JULY 3 VEIB @ISME 2018 Panel on MacIntyrean Business Ethics Durham University July 3, 2018   AUGUST 11 VEIB@Society for Business Ethics Society for Business Ethics Annual Conference 2018 “Practical Wisdom in Business and Management” Paper session Saturday, Read more [...]

Poetry in Organizational Aesthetics

Please consider submitting your work to this special Poetry issue of Organizational Aesthetics Journal (a peer-reviewed open-source journal published by The Art of Management and Organization). The link has the detailed call for submissions and we will accept and review submissions on a rolling basis. We are looking for poems, translations of poems, and short essays on poetry related to organizational life. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/oa/cfppoetry.pdf Please share this call amongst your Read more [...]

Beyond Neoliberalism

Those who tell the stories run the world. Politics has failed through a lack of competing narratives. The key task now is to tell a new story of what it is to be a human in the 21st century. It must be as appealing to some who have voted for Trump and Ukip as it is to the supporters of Clinton, Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn.