Introduction; Part I. Foundations of Humanistic Management: 1. Two narratives for business; 2. Understanding human nature; 3. A novel humanistic synthesis; 4. Economistic and humanistic perspectives on organizing; 5. Pillars of humanistic management: dignity and well-being; 6. Economistic and humanistic archetypes of management; Part II. Applications of Humanistic Management: 7. Developing humanistic management research; 8. Developing humanistic management practice; 9. Developing humanistic management pedagogy; 10. Developing humanistic management policy; Concluding remarks.
This book presents a humanistic science-based framework for management, promoting an ethical and responsible approach to addressing current global societal problems.
Michael Pirson is Professor of Management, Global Sustainability, and Social Entrepreneurship, and Director of the Center for Humanistic Management at Fordham University, New York. He co-founded the Humanistic Management Network and serves as editor of the Humanistic Management Journal. He has won numerous awards, including those from the Academy of Management, and has published extensively on humanistic management, philosophy and business ethics.
'Read this important, accessible, and beautifully-developed book.
You will be glad you did!' Sandra Waddock, Galligan Chair of
Strategy, Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility,
Boston College
'This book is a revelation! So many people in senior management
positions today feel a huge disconnect between their personal
values and those of their businesses and the wider economy. They
long for a new story - a new way of doing business. This brilliant
book not only explains why they feel as they do but shows how to
construct an economy that reflects who we truly are as people.'
Stewart Wallis, Lancaster University and previously Director, New
Economics Foundation.
'This is an excellent book which expounds on the basics for
stakeholder responsibility: protection of dignity and contribution
to wellbeing.' Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman of the World
Economic Forum
'We are living in a time where old understandings of politics,
economic organization and management are collapsing under their own
weight. The pernicious idea that corporations exist to create
shareholder value has reached the end of its useful life. What
would organizations look like in an economy organized around the
creation of well-being? Humanistic Management provides a solid and
grounded framework for creating these new ways of management.'
Jerry Davis, Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business
Administration, Michigan Ross School of Business, and author of The
vanishing American corporation
'An insightful book for the 99% - and the 1% who think that they
run the world should take a close look, too.' John Elkington,
Chairman and Chief Pollinator, Volans, co-founder of Environmental
Data Services (ENDS) and SustainAbility, and co-author of The
Breakthrough Challenge
'We live in an age of disruption. At the root of the current global
social and environmental crisis is an old paradigm of economics and
management that has outlived its usefulness. In this book Michael
Pirson takes us on an intriguing journey of tracing the sources and
foundations of an emerging paradigm that can inspire the next
generation of management research, management practice, and
leadership capacity building.' Otto Scharmer, Senior Lecturer,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management,
Founder of Presencing Institute and author of Theory U
'Humankind looks over the edge of a precipitous cliff, reflected in
business scandals and public mistrust. The path we have taken stops
at the edge. In Humanistic Management Michael Pirson points to
another path, one away from the cliff, toward a future where
dignity counts as much as maximization.' Thomas Donaldson, Mark O.
Winkelman Endowed Professor, The Wharton School University of
Pennsylvania
'Managers and policy makers who want to improve business and
society of tomorrow should read Pirson's thoughtful analysis.
Shifting business strategy towards dignity and wellbeing can
benefit not only employees but society at large.' Douglas Frantz,
Pulitzer Prize winner and Deputy Secretary General, the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
'Michael Pirson provides the long overdue re-embedding of economic
theory and managerial practice into its scientific and real-life
contexts: from ethics to democracy, from psycology to ecology.
Something that got completely separated and fragmented is being
healed and becoming whole again. Humanistic Management transforms
an impoverished chrematistic ideology back into what it ought and
originally was thought to be: an economy serving the common good.'
Christian Felber, Vienna University of Economics and Business,
initiator of the international 'Economy for the Common Good'
movement
'This is an important book. It explains how the narrative of
business is changing, and why we should adopt this more human
understanding of business. Read it more than once. We can and
should make business better.' R. Edward Freeman, The Darden School,
University of Virginia
'With Humanistic Management: Protecting Dignity and Promoting Well
Being, Michael Pirson provides a sterling upgrade to the inadequate
business economic theories that currently shape democratic
capitalism. With this brilliant book, Pirson helps readers see a
path toward better theory, which has the potential of spurring
better practice and a more meritorious future for us all.' Roger
Martin, Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and
the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship,
Rotman School of Management
'Very few people have the intellectual breadth to accomplish what
Michael Pirson did in this remarkable book. Weaving together
insights from a variety of disciplines, he has shown us what lies
at the core of our shared humanity - our desire to be treated with
dignity - and how crucial it is to develop a paradigm for business
that recognizes his fundamental truth. His passion for promoting
dignity, wellbeing, and human flourishing come through his writing.
Thank you, Michael, for this enormous contribution to our
understanding of what the world needs to take us farther down the
path of our development.' Donna Hicks, Associate at the Weatherhead
Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
'Humanistic Management is a much needed and timely articulation of
humanistic perspectives on organizations. For researchers,
managers, policy makers and teachers alike this book is a wakeup
call to take humanistic perspectives seriously. However, beyond
waking us up through research, examples, and arguments, the book
provides direction and inspiration about how to move down the
pathways toward greater well-being and human dignity.' Jane E.
Dutton, Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor of
Business Administration and Psychology, Ross School of Business,
University of Michigan
'Michael Pirson shows us how we can restore human beings to the
center, where they rightly belong. This book is a landmark
contribution to our understanding of how to make this happen in
practice and in our research and teaching.' Raj Sisodia, F. W. Olin
Distinguished Professor of Global Business and Whole Foods Market
Research Scholar in Conscious Capitalism, Babson College,
Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Conscious Capitalism Inc
'Important book. It provides critical foundations for a new
narrative of an economy in service to life.' L. Hunter Lovins,
President, Natural Capitalism Solutions
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