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  • Humanistic Management and Leadership

    by Michael Pirson ...
    Series series Elements in Business Strategy
    This Element outlines the foundational concepts and key applications of humanistic management and leadership. It focuses on the key concepts of protecting dignity and promoting well-being. It provides a humanistically grounded, scientifically backed paradigm for better organizing at the level of individual, relation, team, organization, society and nature. It provides real world examples of ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Alternative Theories of the Firm

    Edited by Michael Pirson, David M. Wasieleski, Erica L. Steckler ...
    Series series Humanistic Management
    The Theory of the Firm is commonly viewed as axiomatic by business school academicians. Considerations in spanning organizational structures, their boundaries and roles, as well as business strategies all relate to the Theory of the Firm. The dominant Theory of the Firm poses that markets act perfectly to maximize the well- being of society when people act to maximize the personal utility of their ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Love and Organization

    Lessons of Love for Human Dignity, Leadership and Motivation

    Edited by Michael Pirson ...
    Series series Humanistic Management
    Organizations are not human, but they are made up of people. Examining the organization, functioning, growing and developing and moving together as one unit, the well-being and success of that organization depends on the well-being of people that make it up.Love, in its various forms, is the energy that motivates and fuels creativity, care, innovation, progress and well-being. Traditionally, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Working Alternatives

    American and Catholic Experiments in Work and Economy

    by John C. Seitz, Christine Firer Hinze, Gerald J. Beyer, Alison Colis Greene, Kathleen Holscher, Michael Naughton, Michael Pirson, Vincent Stanley, Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar0, Kirstin Swinth1, Sandra Waddock2, Nicholas K. Rademacher, University of Dayton3 ...
    Series series Catholic Practice in North America
    Working Alternatives explores economic life from a humanistic and multidisciplinary perspective, with a particular eye on religions’ implications in practices of work, management, supply, production, remuneration, and exchange. Its contributors draw upon historical, ethical, business, and theological conversations considering the sources of economic sustainability and justice.The essays in this ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Case Studies in Social Entrepreneurship

    The oikos collection Vol. 4

    Edited by Michael Pirson ...
    This book is an essential resource for the increasing number of facilitators who wish to help students learn about the promise and pitfalls of social enterprise. The oikos-Ashoka case competition for social entrepreneurship was conceived in 2007 as a way to help find great material and case studies in this emerging field.This fourth collection of oikos case studies is based on the winning cases ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Case Studies in Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability

    The oikos collection Vol. 2

    Edited by Jost Hamschmidt, Michael Pirson ...
    The case studies in this second volume focus on entrepreneurs targeting sustainability issues, and how their personal values shape strategies and initiatives. The award-winning cases describe new patterns of value creation and the challenges of dealing with existing paradigms. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Humanistic Management

    Protecting Dignity and Promoting Well-Being

    by Michael Pirson ...
    In a world facing multiple crises, our foundational institutions are failing to offer effective solutions. Drawing on the emerging consilience of knowledge, Michael Pirson debunks the fundamental yet outdated assumptions of human nature that guide twentieth-century management theory and practice - as captured in the 'economistic' paradigm - and instead provides an urgently needed conceptual and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Humanistic Management: Leadership and Trust, Volume I

    Foundations, Cases, and Exercises

    by Dr Michael Pirson, Dr Jyoti Bachani ...
    **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 ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Humanistic Management: Social Entrepreneurship and Mindfulness, Volume II

    Foundations, Cases, and Exercises

    by Dr Michael Pirson, Dr Jyoti Bachani, Dr Robert J Blomme ...
    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 ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Dignity and the Organization

    Edited by Monika Kostera, Michael Pirson ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This important book focuses on the role of human dignity, its protection and promotion in the context of organization and Humanistic Management. The recent phenomenon of humanism in management already has a rich body of literature and takes up many themes both theoretically, and from a practitioner perspective. Dignity and the Organization is the first book to explicitly deal with the topic of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Humanism in Business

    Edited by Heiko Spitzeck, Michael Pirson, Wolfgang Amann, Shiban Khan, Ernst von Kimakowitz ...
    What is the purpose of our economic system? What would a more life-serving economy look like? 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. Even developments with a humanistic touch like stakeholder participation, corporate social responsibility or corporate philanthropy serve the ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

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  • Responsible Leadership

    Edited by Nicola Pless, Thomas Maak ...
    The second edition of Responsible Leadership offers orienting knowledge on how to lead in a world of contested values—a world where leadership work extends beyond leaders and direct reports to a whole range of stakeholders inside and outside an organization.The new edition comes at a time where leaders face growing expectations to do better, and more, and where leadership challenges such as the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD