Michael Pirson, Jyoti Bachani

Humanistic Management: Leadership and Trust, Volume I (eBook, ePUB)

Foundations, Cases, and Exercises

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers pedagogical material to teach and learn about the topics of leadership and trust from a humanistic perspective.Humanistic Management focuses on the protection of human dignity and the promotion of well being as central concerns of management. It offers an alternative perspective to the currently dominant theories that have prioritized economistic goals of profits and productivity at the cost of sacrificing purposeful organizing that serves people and the planet.

This volume covers topics of leadership and trust, and a companion volume offers perspectives on social entrepreneurship and mindfulness in connection with topics commonly taught in the business school curriculum. Each topic is introduced with a lead chapter that provides a conceptual background for the topic, for example, leadership. The following chapters offer a case study or class room exercise that illustrate the conceptual perspective with examples that can be used for class discussions. The book offers a way to adopt a humanistic perspective on topics of wide interest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Business Expert Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781631575440
• Artikelnr.: 53005414

Autorenporträt

Michael Pirson is an associate professor of management systems. He teaches courses such as social entrepreneurship, fundamentals of management and principles of management. A native of Germany, Professor Pirson has worked and lived in Switzerland, France, China, Costa Rica and the United States. He has worked for an international consulting working for and with businesses, nonprofits, embassies, political campaigns, and local and national governments. He is a founding partner of the Humanistic Management Association and editor-in-chief of Humanistic Management Journal. He is the co-editor of the Humanism in Business book series, published by Palgrave-McMillan. Dr. Pirson is a research fellow at Harvard University and serves on the board of three social enterprises in the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Foundations of Humanistic Management: 1. Two narratives for business
2. Understanding human nature
3. A novel humanistic synthesis
4. Economistic and humanistic perspectives on organizing
5. Pillars of humanistic management: dignity and well-being
6. Economistic and humanistic archetypes of management
Part II. Applications of Humanistic Management: 7. Developing humanistic management research
8. Developing humanistic management practice
9. Developing humanistic management pedagogy
10. Developing humanistic management policy
Concluding remarks.