Paired Courses: Using Liberal Arts to Improve Business EducationSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 5 - Trang 231-249 - 2020
Eric Litton, Jim Wacker
This paper summarizes paired courses, a technique that is being used to incorporate the benefits of liberal arts into the business curriculum. This technique pairs a required business course with a liberal arts course that students take concurrently during a semester. The courses have overlapping themes and activities to build specific competencies that are desired by organizations, such as commun...... hiện toàn bộ
Leveraging Spirituality and Religion in European For-profit-organizations: a Systematic ReviewSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 7 - Trang 23-53 - 2022
Lydia Maidl, Ann-Kathrin Seemann, Eckhard Frick, Harald Gündel, Piret Paal
This systematic review synthesises the available evidence regarding the European understanding of workplace spirituality (definitions), the importance of spirituality and religion (evidence) as well as spiritual leadership (meaning and practice) in for-profitorganizations. The search for eligible studies was conducted in OPAC Plus, SCOPUS, Science Direct, JSTOR, EBSCO, and Google Scholar from 2007...... hiện toàn bộ
Conceptions of the Firm and Corporate AllegiancesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 8 - Trang 201-216 - 2023
Miguel Alzola
This paper aims to integrate recent research on collective agency, corporate moral personhood, and corporate citizenship to answer the question of how corporations and corporate officers should respond to greater social expectations about the role of business in society. The central thesis advanced in this paper is twofold. First, the right answers to questions about corporate purpose and social r...... hiện toàn bộ
Broadening the Frame around Sustainability with Holistic Language: Mandela and InvictusSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 3 - Trang 233-251 - 2018
Poonam Arora, Gwendolyn A. Tedeschi, Janet L. Rovenpor
We argue for the need for a new language for business – one that is capable of changing the current business decision-making frame of wins and losses to a frame of community and social learning. This paper outlines a classroom exercise about Nelson Mandela’s leadership, involving movies, case studies and poetry, and shows how the more holistic approach helps shift student views of the triple botto...... hiện toàn bộ
Embedding Humanizing Cultures in Organizations through ‘Institutional’ Leadership: the Role of HRMSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 5 - Trang 59-83 - 2020
Massimiliano Monaci
Building on dissatisfaction with current approaches that entail a superficial conception of the firm’s moral agency, this article has two broad theoretical underpinnings. First, it refers to the Catholic Social Thought’s view of the enterprise as a community of work, which leads to place stress on the possibility of creating ‘organizational humanizing cultures’ that revolve around the principles o...... hiện toàn bộ
Self-Sustaining Practices of Successful Social Change Agents: A Retreats Framework for Supporting Transformational ChangeSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 2 - Trang 171-198 - 2017
Erica L. Steckler, Sandra Waddock
We advance a framework of three types of “retreats” – reflective, relational, and inspirational – that social change agents can use to sustain themselves through challenges inherent in their work. Retreats are defined as intentionally crafted spaces that provide opportunities for reflective practices, relational presence, and inspirational resources. The retreats framework is based on the experien...... hiện toàn bộ
Dignity and the Process of Social Innovation: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship and Transformative Services for Humanistic ManagementSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 4 - Trang 125-153 - 2019
Michael Pirson, Mario Vázquez-Maguirre, Canan Corus, Erica Steckler, Andrew Wicks
In this paper we advance inquiry into human dignity in relation to the theory and practice of social entrepreneurship and innovation in a two-fold manner. First, we explore how concepts from the literatures of human dignity and humanistic management can inform and enrich social entrepreneurship and innovation. Second, we examine case studies of social entrepreneurship and innovation to refine how ...... hiện toàn bộ
Evolving Conceptions of Work-Family Boundaries: In Defense of The Family as StakeholderSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 7 - Trang 55-93 - 2022
Miguel Pina E. Cunha, Remedios Hernández-Linares, Milton De Sousa, Stewart Clegg, Arménio Rego
In the management and organization studies literature, a key question to explore and explain is that of the family as an organizational stakeholder, particularly when working-from-home became the “new normal”. Departing from meta-analytic studies on the work-family relation and connecting with scholarly conversation on work-family boundary dynamics, we identify three main narratives. In the separa...... hiện toàn bộ