Book description
Humanistic management agenda is to protect human dignity and promote societal well-being.The currently dominant theories prioritize economistic goals of profits and productivity at the cost of threatening sustainability. A humanistic perspective offers an alternative for purposeful organizing that serves people and the planet. This two-volume set of books offers humanistic theory and practical exercises on topics of leadership and trust in volume one and social entrepreneurship and mindfulness in volume two. Each topic is introduced with a conceptual lead chapter followed a case-study or exercise to apply and engage using examples.
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Part I Social Entrepreneurship as Humanistic Management
- Chapter 1 Social Entrepreneurship as a Form of Humanistic Management Michael Pirson
- Chapter 2 Homeboy Industries: Stopping Bullets with Jobs R. Duncan, M. Pelly, and Stephen J.J. McGuire
- Chapter 3 Harnessing the Potential of Gamification in Humanistic Management Teaching: Games for Change Jennifer S.A. Leigh, Erica Steckler, and Whitney Ennis
- Chapter 4 Social Enterprises and the Integration of Persons with Mental Disabilities in the Greek Society: A Case-Study of Koispe Athena-Elpis Aikaterini Argyrou, Tineke Lambooij, Robert Blomme, and Henk Kievit
- Chapter 5 A Path Out of Poverty: Turning Biowaste into Opportunity at the Base of the Economic Pyramid in Indonesia Linda Herkenhoff and Don A. Earnest
- Part II Practices of Humanistic Management
- Chapter 6 Mindfulness and Humanistic Management Michael Pirson
- Chapter 7 Mindfulness through Improv: The Individual in a Group Jyoti Bachani
- Chapter 8 Appreciative Inquiry: Humanistic Values at Work Niels Tekke
- Index
Product information
- Title: Humanistic Management: Social Entrepreneurship and Mindfulness, Volume II
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2018
- Publisher(s): Business Expert Press
- ISBN: 9781947441095
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