Editorial: Welcome to the Humanistic Management Journal

Humanistic Approach to Principal’s Leadership and Its Impacts in Character Education Strengthening

“…Thus, moral imagination explicitly opens the strategic steps of an approach for an educational leader on the act of giving meaning and direction to the lives of all school components. Leaders have a moral obligation to live a life and protect people (Veugelers & Kat, 2002;Pirson, 2017). It is also confirmed by Werhane (2008); Waddock (2016); Dierksmeier (2016); Melé (2016) that the educational environment should develop aspects of the humanistic approach including: appreciation and unconditional recognition of the values of human dignity of all school components, ethical reflection integrated into decision making, normative legitimacy to take action and decision in educational organizations; school does not only target academic achievement, but also consider the value of human character, the existence of transparency, truth, and humanistic communication through the similarity of words and actions.…”

Humanistic Management – Sucks Less and Better for your Health

“…The journal has published several pieces that relate to a better narrative (Dion 2017;Lawrence and Pirson 2015;Lovins 2016;Pirson 2016Pirson , 2017aPirson , b, c, 2018Waddock 2016). In a second contribution in this issue, Sandra Waddock (2018) is exploring the possibility of building such a narrative.…”

“…The editorial team of the Humanistic Management Journal consider dignity and wellbeing central memes of a more life-conducive economic system (Mele 2003(Mele , 2009Pirson 2016;Pirson et al 2016). We encourage everyone else so inclined to promote this movement toward more humanistic management practices to enhance human flourishing.…”

In a Time of Global Upheaval- Humanistic Management Thinking Needed More Than Ever

“…Our journal was established in a time when the failures and cracks of the pervasive "economistic" view of the world have become very evident. It is our hope that the basic values of freedom and dignity can be part of organizing theory and practice much more fundamentally than they had been in the past (Pirson 2016).…”