The worth of humanistic management

Swart, J. Carroll

doi:10.1016/0007-6813(73)90023-2

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“…According to Swart (1973) this term is synonymous with job enrichment, a proposal first made by Herzberg (1968), which involves motivating employees by giving them more responsibilities and variety in their jobs, in order to increase their satisfaction and productivity. Similarly, Daley affirmed that "humanistic management is quintessentially behaviouralistic and focused primarily on human motivation " (1986:131).…”

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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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Antecedents and current situation of humanistic management

MeleÌ

2014

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“…He accented the uniqueness of each employee, the singularity of every situation and the necessity of managing Blike an artist^rather than using a set of learned guidelines. Swart (1973) used the term Bhumanistic management^to refer to a set of innovative proposals made at the time to overcome the monotonous repetition of tasks established by scientific management to improve productivity, but with no thought given to worker motivation. He affirmed: BHumanistic management, often called job enrichment, is a new way to cope with old problems -motivation, work satisfaction, morale, and productivity.^ (Swart 1973, p. 41) Drawing from Herzberg (1968), this scholar suggested that HM involves giving employees more responsibilities and variety in their jobs in order to motivate them and increase their satisfaction and productivity.…”

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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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“…Earlier traditions in personalistic humanistic management were quite outspoken that such partnerships with economics should be sought. Connecting to the human relations school, Swart (, pp. 42, 50), for instance, explicitly justified practices in personalist humanistic management in relation to profitability or productivity.…”

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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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The worth of humanistic management

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Antecedents and current situation of humanistic management

Antecedents and current situation of humanistic management

Understanding Humanistic Management

For Humanistic Management and Against Economics

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