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Humanistic management requires an expansion of economistic management to focus on flourishing for all at work through dignity and well-being. A dignity framework engaging the humanistic management perspective is used to explore mattering in organizational contexts. The framework acknowledges moral and spiritual levels of the human experience and incorporates transcendent and religious motivations, representing a more fully humanistic conception. Existential and interpersonal mattering are linked to various levels of the dignity experience at work, providing a practical way of understanding a highly philosophical concept. Implications of mattering at work for humanistic management research, theory, and practice are discussed. Dignity and mattering provide important, human-centered, relationally-oriented concepts to help us understand how people live and experience their lives at work.

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Good cases featuring virtuous leaders and the practices and processes of their organizations can be hard to find. To find them we can look to virtue-driven social entrepreneurs who often launch businesses with a responsible purpose of serving a broader social good. In this chapter, we describe a case of one such leader, CEO Dean Cycon, and his exemplary organization, Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Company. Cycon had been a lawyer, social activist, and Fulbright scholar when he created the company as a way to continue his social activism through business. With a passion for social justice and established connections with indigenous coffee growers on four continents, he created the K.P. Manz (*)

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