Personalist Business Ethics and Humanistic Management: Insights from Jacques Maritain

Acevedo, Alma

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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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Section: The Humanistic Management Movementmentioning

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Understanding Humanistic Management

2016

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“…This network has promoted a number of publications on humanistic management (Amann et al, 2011;Kimakowitz et al, 2011;Spitzeck, 2009). Other articles (Acevedo, 2012;Beaudreau, 2012;Melé, 2012a;Spitzeck, 2011) and collective works (special issue of the Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 88, Issue 3; Melé and Dierksmeier, 2012;Rosanas and Ricart, 2012) are also evidence of the increasing interest in the concept.…”

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Antecedents and current situation of humanistic management

MeleÌ

2014

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Humanistic management is generally presented as an alternative perspective to the economic paradigm in management and organisational theories. We find both humanism and economicism in the first stages of modern management, and they still persist at the beginning of the 21 st century. This paper reviews the antecedents and current situation of humanistic management. Although economicism is still dominant, it has received severe criticism and several management approaches discussed here can contribute to further development of humanistic management. These include person-organisation fit, peoples' involvement in organisations, the consideration of business as a human community, comprehensive approaches to decision-making, stakeholder management, values-based management, as well as ethics and corporate responsibility in management, personal competencies and positive organisational scholarship.

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“…There is no single ethical doctrine in which debate on humanistic management is rooted. 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.…”

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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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Personalist Business Ethics and Humanistic Management: Insights from Jacques Maritain

Abstract: Business ethics, Common good, Human rights, Humanism and humanistic management, Maritain, Jacques, Moral and ethical aspects, Natural law, Personalism, Philosophy, Virtue,

Cited by 67 publications

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Understanding Humanistic Management

Understanding Humanistic Management

Antecedents and current situation of humanistic management

For Humanistic Management and Against Economics

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