World Humanism

Cross-cultural Perspectives on Ethical Practices in Organizations
Herausgegeben:Khan, S.; Amann, W.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The purpose of World Humanism: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Ethical Practices in Organizations is to discover what is distinctive about humanistic management practices around the world. It examines the nature and occurrence of humanistic management practices within businesses and other organizations across the world.

Produktdetails

• Humanism in Business Series
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-33626-5
• 1st ed. 2013
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9781349336265
• ISBN-10: 1349336262
• Artikelnr.: 44711195

Autorenporträt

Shiban Khan is Research Fellow at the Institute for Supply Chain Management: Procurement and Logistics, EBS Business School, Germany, where she concentrates on the Institute's India-focused research portfolio. Her projects include sourcing in India, supply chain security and sustainability, and comparative procurement practices of German and Indian companies. Her expertise lies in theories and cultural implications of CSR and sustainable business strategies, management in India and global sourcing. She has been a visiting tutor at the Henley Business School of the University of Reading, UK, and has lectured on sustainability and the BRIC countries at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Indian Institute of Management, India, and Hosei University, Japan. Shiban is a co-founder of the humanistic management network, and has previously been the executive director of Oikos International. Shiban holds an MSc in Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and a PhD in International Management from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Wolfgang Amann graduated from the Harvard Institute for Management and Leadership in Education, USA, and from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he received his PhD in International Management. After years in top management consulting, Wolfgang has been marketing, designing, directing, and delivering executive education seminars for more than a decade. He previously directed as strategy professor the Henley Centre for Creative Destruction and was Vice-Director of the Executive School at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He has also been a visiting professor in institutions around the world. He now serves as the Executive Academic Director of Executive Education and faculty at the Goethe Business School of the University of Frankfurt, Germany. He has written more than a hundred case studies for his programs, along with a variety of books on sound management as well as management education.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Towards a better understanding of world humanism 2. Economic Humanism and Western Management: Theory and Practice 3. Humanistic Management and North American Business Ethics 4. Alterity, Otherness and Humanistic Management in Latin America Bancoldex and Views as two Colombian case studies 5. Scandinavian Cooperative Advantage: The Case of IKEA 6. Humanistic management and sustainable transformation with regional scope on Germany, Austria and Switzerland 7. Corporate Social Responsibility management in Poland 8. The Italian way to Humanistic Management 2.0 9. Towards A Humanistic and Responsible Managerial Decision Making Model: The Corporate Ubuntu Approach 10. Business Ethics Practices in Israel: Jewish Ethical Traditions and Management Behavior 11. The Islamic Paradigm of Morality: Toward a Humanism Approach 12. Antecedents to humanistic management approach in India: The role of family businesses 13. Indian Ethos as Humanistic Management Principles: a case study of a Family Business Organisation 14. The Ethical Background of Business in China - An Outline 15. Business ethics and corporate system in Japan 16. Emerging insights on world humanism