Humanistic ManagementCases and Exercises, Volume II

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.

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.

Jyoti Bachani is an associate professor at Saint Mary's College of California. With a PhD from London Business School, a masters in management science & engineering from Stanford, she had been a strategy consultant to Fortune 200 companies, with Strategic Decisions Group, and held managerial roles at Citibank and Tata Unisys. She has also been a Fullbright senior research scholar to India. A globally recognized expert on case-studies, she has authored several cases, articles and the book, Strategy Making in Nonprofit Organizations: A Model and Casetudies.

Robert J. Blomme is a professor at Nyenrode Business University in the Netherlands, where he also serves as the Head of Faculty and Head of the PhD-school. He also teaches at the Open University and at Leiden University, also in the Netherlands. His main research concerns psychological, sociological, humanistic and institutional aspects of organizational behavior. He teaches a wide range of courses in Organizational Behavior, Humanistic Management, Organizational Sociology, Organizational Theory and Change Management in Masters, MBA, PhD and Executive Education programs.