Humanistic Management in Latin America

Consuelo García-de-la-Torre, Osmar Arandia, Mario Vázquez-Maguirre, Consuelo A. García-de-la-Torre

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780367367527
• eBook ISBN: 9781000384901
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Accounting
• Index: Business

Humanistic management has been part of a growing conversation about a different approach to management that contributes to dignity in the workplace and better organisations overall. The theoretical concepts have mostly derived from developed countries. This book seeks to redress the balance and looks at the development and application of the concepts, approaches and models of inequality, corruption, poverty, and uncertainty in the context of Latin America.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of what is happening in Latin America in terms of Humanistic Management and the promotion of the Sustainable Development Goals. The first section describes the development of Humanistic Management by reviewing two different schools that have strongly influenced the discipline: the Montreal School and the Saint Gallen School. Humanistic Management is then presented as a model that can be used by scholars and practitioners in Latin America. The third part aims to explore how Humanistic Management has been, and could be, implemented across different organizations and business sectors in Latin America. Part four examines the implications of Humanistic Management for external stakeholders such as customers and consumers, suppliers, community, government, and universities. Finally, the conclusion provides new approaches to Humanistic Management for Latin America.

Humanistic Management in Latin America will serve as a key reference and resource for teachers, researchers, students, experts and policy makers, who want to acquire a broad understanding of social responsibility and business across the world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of tables and figures
• Foreword
• 1 Humanistic management: a history of a management paradigm from the human dignity
• 2 Humanistic management: a balancing act towards a better world
• 3 Corporate social responsibility based on dignity and well-being as keys to the humanistic management of human capital
• 4 Targeting kids in the digital age: the ethics of online marketing towards children
• 5 Government and public–private relationships: lessons from the Odebrecht case
• 6 Supply chain management, humanistic management and circular economy: fostering industry innovation and decent work through responsible consumption and production through partnerships
• 7 The impact of humanistic management in governance
• 8 An exploratory study of the effects of socioemotional wealth in the perception of humanistic management and psychological ownership in family and non-family members in Latin American family firms
• 9 Social responsibility of the university in the promotion of more humane and sustainable enterprises
• 10 Conceptualisation of human dignity: the evolution of the concept and its applicability in business through a humanistic lens
• 11 A win–win perspective from the firms to the BOP: a Latin American approach
• 12 Understanding corporate sustainability through a humanistic management lens
• 13 Humanistic management in Latin America: final remarks
• About the contributors
• Index