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PRME Working Group on Humanistic Management

Working Group Content

History

The PRME Working Group on Humanistic Management can trace its origins to the early 2000s as part of the Humanistic Management Network. It formed out of a dedicated movement from leaders within the Academy of Management (e.g., SIM and MSR divisions) aimed at fostering a “humanistic paradigm” in business education. A number of global thought and action leaders from academia, practice, policy, and media gathered to develop, enact, and promote a humanistic perspective of management. Since 2007, members have hosted over 500 workshops, Online and in-person conferences, high-visibility All-Academy sessions featuring globally recognized thought leaders, book projects, a highly visible peer-reviewed journal, book series, and documentary films.

In 2017, the PRME Working Group on Humanistic Management and the Humanistic Management Association formed to formalize global collaboration for the development and professionalization of humanistic management research, practice, pedagogy and policy.

Purpose

The purpose of the Working Group is to develop and support practices that allow an economic system to work for 100% of humanity (Buckminster Fuller) through life-conducive management approaches.

The two principles central to such humanistic organizing practice are:

1) the protection of dignity (as that which is intrinsically valuable)

2) the promotion of well-being (common good).

Goals

The main goals of the PRME Working Group on Humanistic Management are:

  1. Ongoing development of interdisciplinary scholarship

  2. Continue development of related pedagogical material

  3. Continue the facilitation of communities of practice with practitioners, policymakers and civil society members (including media).

  4. Contribute to the transformation of business, education, and business education for flourishing

Research

The Working Group facilitates the creation and dissemination of new knowledge and practices to support a new narrative for organizing. A number of members are actively creating new insights and research which is supported and published by the Working Group’s publication outlets:

Current research projects include:

  • Artificial Intelligence and Human Dignity

  • Transforming Business Education for Flourishing

  • Love and the Organization

  • Leading with Dignity


Resource Development

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Engagement Opportunities

The Working Group hosts conferences, partners with other institutions, and facilitates workshops for target audiences to advance knowledge creation and dissemination. The Working Group facilitates collaboration among research, teaching, practice, and policy communities of practice to enable a wider mindset shift and change in cultural narrative.

Examples of interactive engagement formats in the virtual space include:

  • Humanistic Leadership Academy, founded by Michael Pirson, Ph.D.

    • The Humanistic Leadership Academy offers collaborative cohorts and a comprehensive certification program structured that develop leaders’ ability to create positive change at personal, organizational, and societal levels. The program combines live virtual cohorts, asynchronous learning modules, and applied projects to foster growth.

  • Necessary Conversation Format, hosted by Erica Steckler, Ph.D.

    • The Necessary Conversation Format is a virtual global forum to feature progressive and transformative approaches and new paradigms for protecting dignity and promoting well-being —human through planetary — in our organizing practices.

  • Intellectual Shamans, hosted by Sandra Waddock, DBA

    • The Intellectual Shamans Format is a personal and professional development format for those interested in integral approaches to fostering transformation of self, others and the system.

Other Activities

The PRME Working Group on Humanistic Management maintains a symbiotic relationship with the International Humanistic Management Association. They share the connected priority of transforming organizing practices to protect dignity and promote well being. The collaboration allows for connected communities of practice and shared initiatives.

Chair

Michael Pirson, Director Center for Humanistic Management; Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University, United States of America

pirson@fordham.edu

Steering Committee

Patrick Aure, Ramon V. del Rosario College of Business, De La Salle University, Philippines

Erica Steckler, Manning School of Business, University of Massachusetts Lowell, United States of America

Harry Hummels, Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, Netherlands

Maria Dellalucia, Università di Trento, Italy

Ariane Saney, New York University, United States of America

Jyoti Bachani, Saint Mary’s College of California, School of Economics and Business Administration, United States of America, India

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