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Report to the Club of Rome: Transformation is Feasible

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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 […]

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10 Years After the Crash, Time to Stop Expecting Reform from Mainstream Economists?

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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 […]

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Call for Abstracts (due December 15!): POS Research Conference, June 5-6, 2019

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Submitted by Erica Steckler: The Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) Research Conference is a gathering that welcomes connections with scholars in the IHMA community based on a shared passion for and focus on flourishing at and across various organizational levels of analysis. 2019 POS Research Conference Call for Abstracts   SUBMISSIONS DUE:December 14, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. ET The 2019 conference program includes a series of 12 research tracks and a visual presentation session, 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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Civilizing the Workplace

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by Ben Teehankee A positive work climate supports human flourishing, and managers have a role in building and protecting such a climate. The lack of corrective feedback is a major reason why workplace nastiness thrives and even escalates to be part of the workplace culture. In contrast, some companies nip the problem at the bud by adopting rules against nastiness… As reported by Fortune, a key part of the leadership philosophy of Paul Purcell, Baird’s President and CEO, is to enforce 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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