Publications
Humanistic Leadership in Action: Fostering Performance and Dignity in Organizations
Humanistic Leadership is a book about building high-performance organizations. While many other publications offer general success recipes, this volume emphasizes the crucial role of protecting and fostering human dignity in the process. Humanistic leadership poses four questions to design and direct role-model organizations that are more innovative and resilient, offer more attractive, engaging, and conducive workplaces, and make significant contributions to the ecosystem in which they operate.
Humanistic Strategizing
What does strategy really accomplish? Traditionally, it’s been about direction, alignment, commitment, and competitive advantage. But what if strategy could deliver more? This book introduces a fresh approach to creating winning organizational recipes. One that integrates human dignity into both the process and the outcomes of strategizing. One that goes beyond survival and profits. One that enables value and values.
Humanistic Crisis Management
This book aims at catalyzing our learning from the COVID-19 crisis. Numerous studies have emerged confirming that during the COVID-19 pandemic, crisis management has been far from holistic. Progress previously made towards sustainability has in many cases been reversed and global inequality has grown. This volume scrutinizes the crucial role of businesses in the lived experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for a new goal system in business, establishing human dignity as the ultimate outcome of sound business.
The Future of Responsible Management Education
Business schools have been criticized for several things, such as lacking relevance, a too-weak ethics orientation, dated paradigms, or commercialization. Simultaneously, there has been much positive change and accelerated dynamics toward forming future-ready companies and graduates. This book outlines how to better understand and master the digital transformation challenge. It is essential that business school deans, program directors, and faculty members embrace new opportunities to bring the UN-backed Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) to life successfully.
Organizational Corruption, Crime, and Covid-19
Corruption flourishes in times of uncertainty and crisis. When institutions and oversight are weak, and public trust is low, corruption can thrive and undermine how societies respond to the crisis. Covid-19 brought this issue into sharp focus. This book uncovers problems experienced across the globe andexplains how organizations and countries can strengthen their anti-corruption systems to prevent problems in the future. Humanistic Management and better learning initiatives emerge as essential.
Responsible Management Education and Business School Practices
Beyond researching and teaching, business schools should walk the talk. They ought to become role models and responsible organisations themselves. Based on new research with PRME initiative leads, this book provides a framework to improve management education and business schools. This book is relevant to all stakeholders of modern management education, in particular business school deans, university presidents, program directors, PRME leads and non-academic leaders in business schools, such as COOs or managing directors.