A Humanistic Perspective for Management Theory: Protecting Dignity and Promoting Well-Being

Strategic Alliances in Firm-Centric and Collective Contexts: Implications for Indigenous Entrepreneurship

“…In many ways, these worldviews may be highly insightful Indigenous knowledge systems and worldviews to draw from when charting new ways of viewing important objectives within the mainstream literature (such as the creation of social hybrid ventures). This is especially so when considering how to alleviate resource limitations, impact policy designs, protect the environment, and pursue human flourishing underpinned by protection of their wellbeing and dignity (Pirson 2017). Charting the processes of 'meaningful participation' of Indigenous communities and knowledge to create ambicultural governance systems within alliance structures appears to be a fruitful area of research for both communities and corporations (Ruwhiu and Carter 2016).…”

“…Measures of rights and wellbeing derived from the traditional recognition of factors that often have little importance in market or governmental reporting would thus be a necessary starting point. There is a burgeoning body of literature steeped in the collective paradigm (Whetten 2009;Pirson 2017 which seeks to develop a twenty-first century management theory of responsible business and emphasizes 'the protection of human dignity and the promotion of wellbeing'. Furthermore, these measures may benefit from considering the sensitive contextual aspects of specific actors or communities.…”

“…Expanding on the third point, Indigenous worldviews are akin in many ways to Indigenous knowledge systems and worldviews that may be applied in business and management research in that they may stand as a model for decision making based on an individual underlying moral predisposition as influenced by group membership as to how humans should interact with their ecosystems in pursuit of their wellbeing and dignity (Pirson 2017;Schminke and Wells 1999). They have also been shown to stand in contrast to the mainstream norms involving corporate and firm-centric interpretations of property rights and value systems-many Indigenous communities exhibit complex Indigenous knowledge systems and worldviews grounded in an alloy of common property rights systems within traditional and spiritual relationships among people and the land that are reinforced by a framework of inherent legal rights (Schlager and Ostrom 1992;Ridley-Duff and Bull 2011;Peredo et al 2017;Runge 1986).…”

“…The collective paradigm is receiving interest in the academy as an emerging paradigm of economics and management that seeks to shift business strategy towards dignity and wellbeing that can benefit not only employees but society at large (Pirson 2017). It is a response to the business scandals, global social and environmental crisis, and public mistrust.…”

Organizational Factors in the Individual Ethical Behaviour. The Notion of the “Organizational Moral Structure”

“…Humanistic management-shortly introduced at the beginning of this paper-is a movement developed mainly after 2009 (Dierksmeier 2016;Melé 2016;Pirson 2017;Spitzeck et al 2009;von Kimakowitz et al 2011 among others), although one can track its antecedents back to the beginnings of management and to the thinkers like Mary Parker Follett, and others (Melé 2003(Melé , 2013. Humanistic management is generally presented as an alternative paradigm to the prevalent techno-economic or 'economistic' paradigm that has been guiding the twentiethcentury management theory and practice, and even now is accepted by many.…”