Introducing This Book and Humanistic Management

Kimakowitz, Ernst von; Pirson, Michael; Dierksmeier, Claus; Spitzeck, Heiko; Amann, Wolfgang

doi:10.1057/9780230306585.0007

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“…In the last decate years an increasing number of scholars have published articles in referred journals and books; among these, Arnaud (2008), Amann et al (2011), Melé (2009, 2013, Kimakowitz et al (2011b), Rocha and Miles 2009;Dierksmeier and Pirson (2010), Dierksmeier et al (2011), Acevedo (2012, Beaudreau (2012), Spitzeck (2011), Pirson and Kimakowitz (2014), Lupton and Pirson (2014), Arnaud and Wasieleski (2014), Arandia and Portales (2015).…”

Section: The Humanistic Management Movementmentioning

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Understanding Humanistic Management

2016

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Humanistic management is a people-oriented management that seeks profits for human ends. It contrasts with other types of management that are essentially oriented toward profits, with people seen as mere resources to serve this goal. This article reviews the historical development of humanistic management and the ever-increasing body of literature on the concept as well as the different meanings that scholars attribute to it. It then explores what form a genuine humanism might have by presenting seven propositions labeled as: 1) wholeness, 2) comprehensive knowledge, 3) human dignity, 4) development, 5) common good, 6) transcendence, and 7) stewardship-sustainability. Next, it looks at four characteristics of a humanistic ethos for managing business: the view of the individual and human work, the role of the individual in the society and in interacting with nature, the business firm, and the purpose of business in society. Finally, it presents some insights for the practice of humanistic management.

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Understanding Humanistic Management

2016

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“…It ranges from virtue ethics (Acevedo , p. 199; Beabout ; Frémeaux and Michelson ; Melé , p. 79, ; Rocha and Miles , pp. 445–446), stoic ethics (Opdebeeck and Habisch , p. 783), duty ethics (von Kimakowitz et al , pp. 11–12), unconditional concepts of human dignity (Spitzeck , p. 51; von Kimakowitz et al , pp.…”

Section: Personalist Humanistic Management: Definitions and Key Featuresmentioning

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“…445–446), stoic ethics (Opdebeeck and Habisch , p. 783), duty ethics (von Kimakowitz et al , pp. 11–12), unconditional concepts of human dignity (Spitzeck , p. 51; von Kimakowitz et al , pp. 4–6; similarly Acevedo , pp.…”

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“…At times researchers on personalist humanistic management hint at an economizing approach to business ethics when they talk about the “legitimization” of profit‐generating management (e.g., von Kimakowitz et al , pp. 8–9); and economic goals of the firm like “profitability,” “efficiency,” or “productivity” (e.g., Melé , pp.…”

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For Humanistic Management and Against Economics

Wagner‐Tsukamoto

2018

Business and Society Review

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The paper critiques the relationship between personalist ethics and institutional economics, and accepts that institutional economics can be difficult to reconcile with humanistic management that builds on personalist ethics. Even so the paper connects impersonalist ethics with institutional economics. On this ground, the paper demonstrates how theory and practice of personalist humanist management can lean on impersonalist ethics, i.e., institutional economics. Three pathways are laid out for such leanings. It is argued that to understand these alignments is important to improve the success of humanistic management, when a market economy context is given. The paper further contends that personalist humanistic management may imply abandoning the market economy when it positions itself in opposition to institutional economic reasoning that underpins the market economy.

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“…Plus, they wield an unusually productive human capital: a handsome return for their oftquite-intensive investments in human capabilities. In all these and many more ways, Social Entrepreneurs prove day by day that you can, indeed, do well by doing good, as multiple case studies show (Kimakowitz et al, 2010). The profitability of their endeavors can serve as a fortiori argument in favor of the financial feasibility of humanistic management and CSR in traditional firms: Small deviations from the course of profit-maximization are unlikely to ruin business, if big ones do not (Arena, 2007).…”

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