Humanism in Business

Humanism in Business
Author: Heiko Spitzeck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2009-02-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521898935

There are many books about business and society, yet very few of them question the primacy of GDP growth, profit maximization and individual utility maximization. This groundbreaking book questions these assumptions and investigates the possibility of creating a human-centered, value-oriented society based on humanistic principles.

Applied Humanism

Applied Humanism
Author: Jennifer Hancock
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2019-05-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1949991431

This book provides a short introduction to the philosophy of humanism and discusses how and why it is being applied to business and why it is so effective when you do so. You can’t understand humanistic business management unless you understand what humanism is. This book provides a short introduction to the philosophy of humanism and discusses how and why it is being applied to business and why it is so effective when you do so. Humanism helps us prioritize human value as important. It supports positive interpersonal relationships and collaborative and respectful decision-making. Since all businesses are in the business of solving problems, good problem solving is essential to good business. Humanism has already transformed many other disciplines including psychology, medicine, nursing, and more. Additionally, humanism is foundational to the practice of human resources, without which businesses cannot operate. It is important for business managers to understand the philosophy fully so they can understand how to not only manage people more effectively, but how to operate their businesses in a way that helps the communities in which they operate. This book will provide the primer they need to create more effective and ethical businesses.

Humanism in Economics and Business

Humanism in Economics and Business
Author: Domènec Melé
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2015-02-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401797048

This book offers different perspectives on Humanism as developed by Catholic Social Teaching, with a particular focus on its relevance in economics and business. The work is composed of three sections, covering what is meant by Christian Humanism, how it links with economic activity, and its practical relevance in the business world of today. It reviews the historical development of Christian Humanism and discusses the arguments which justify it in the current cultural context and how it contributes to human development. The book argues that the current recognition of human dignity and the existence of innate human rights are both ultimately rooted in Christian Humanism. It sets out the importance of the concept for economic activities, and how Christian Humanism can serve as a metaphysical foundation and ethical basis for a social market economy. Applying Christian Humanism to business leads to the centrality of the person in organizations and to seeing the company as a community of persons working together for the common good. Three thought-provoking case studies illustrate the wide-reaching positive impacts of applying Christian Humanism in the organization.​

Reframing Economic Ethics

Reframing Economic Ethics
Author: Claus Dierksmeier
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2016-07-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319323008

This book reconstructs major paradigms in the history of economic ethics up to, and including, the present day. Asserting that ethics should be integral rather than marginal to economics and management education, Reframing Economic Ethics highlights the need for a paradigm change from mechanistic to humanistic management, and argues that the failures of markets and managers in recent years were paved by a misguided management education. The author shows how the reader can and must learn from the history of economic thinking in order to overcome the theoretical shortcomings and the practical failings of the present system.

Virtuous Cycles in Humanistic Management

Virtuous Cycles in Humanistic Management
Author: Ricardo Aguado
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2019-11-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030294269

This volume is divided into three major parts, each of which symbolizes a new virtuous circle that is added to the previous one in order to foster the dissemination of humanistic management (HM) among corporations and social institutions. After an introductory chapter explaining the concept of humanistic management and the plan behind this research project, the first part of the book is devoted to education. The authors address pedagogical strategies that can be used in higher education to introduce students to HM. In turn, the second part of the book focuses on the implementation of HM in corporations, while the third presents an approach for measuring and monetizing the social value generated by corporations through their economic activities. In the closing chapter, the editors illustrate how the three parts of the book can be combined to generate virtuous cycles in corporations.

Late Neoclassical Economics

Late Neoclassical Economics
Author: Yahya M. Madra
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2016-06-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317813111

Several contemporary economic theories revolve around different concepts: market failures, institutions, transaction costs, information asymmetries, motivational diversity, cognitive limitations, strategic behaviors and evolutionary stability. In recent years, many economists have argued that the increase in circulation and mobilization of these new and heterogeneous concepts and their associated methodologies (e.g., experiments, evolutionary modelling, simulations) signify the death of neoclassical economics. Late Neoclassical Economics: The Restoration of Theoretical Humanism in Contemporary Economic Theory draws on the work of Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault and the Amherst School, to construct the concept of a self-transparent and self-conscious human subject (Homo economicus) as the theoretical humanist core of the neoclassical tradition. Instead of identifying the emergent heterogeneity as a break from neoclassicism, this book offers a careful genealogy of many of the new concepts and approaches - including evolutionary game theory, experimental economics and behavioural economics - and reads their elaboration as part of the restoration of the theoretical humanist core of the tradition. ‘Late neoclassical economics’ is therefore characterized as a collection of diverse approaches which have emerged in response to the drift towards structuralism. This book is suitable for those who study political economy, history of economic thought and philosophy of economics. The arguments put forward in this text will also resonate with anyone who is interested in the fate of the neoclassical tradition and the future of economic theory.

Rethinking the Market Economy

Rethinking the Market Economy
Author: J. Lambin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2014-03-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137392916

This book explores the changing socio-economic and technological landscape of the 21 century and what it means. It adopts an industrial economic approach, whilst proposing a road map leading to the adoption of a 'societal market economy' model as an appealing and politically acceptable third-way between capitalism and socialism.

Humanistic Marketing

Humanistic Marketing
Author: R. Varey
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137353295

Humanistic Marketing is a response to the currently growing mega-trend call for rethinking marketing. The book organizes current thinking around the problems of marketing theory and practice as well as solutions and ways forward, providing a diverse exploration of the position of marketing in the face of challenges for societal transformation.

Humanistic Management

Humanistic Management
Author: Michael Pirson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2017-09-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107160723

This book presents a humanistic science-based framework for management, promoting an ethical and responsible approach to addressing current global societal problems.

Humanism and Democratic Criticism

Humanism and Democratic Criticism
Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780231122641

brought on by advances in technological communication, intellectual specialization, and cultural sensitivity -- has eroded the former primacy of the humanities, Edward Said argues that a more democratic form of humanism -- one that aims to incorporate, emancipate, and enlighten --