1st Edition

Love and Organization Lessons of Love for Human Dignity, Leadership and Motivation

Edited By Michael Pirson Copyright 2022
348 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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

1. Love as a Foundational Principle for Humanistic Management

Matthew T. Lee 

2. Love and Organizational Models: How to Interpret Forms of Love Within Companies

Roberta Sferrazzo & Renato Ruffini 

3. Organizational Expressions of Love: A Level of System Inquiry

Linda Robson and Duncan Coombe 

4. Agape in Business – Policies and Actions Beyond Caritas

Harry Hummels, Yannick Bammens, Maike van Dijk and Annelies van Uden 

5. Love and the Moral Structure of Business: Toward a Tripartite Ethos of Human Enterprise

Michael F. Mascolo and David Greenway 

6. Levinas And Lewis On Loving the Other in Organizations

Peter McGhee and Dr. Myk Habets 

7. The Power of Love in People’s Motivation at Work

Maria Prats 

8. Toward a Systematic Approach to Building a Loving Organization: The Humanistic Organizational Development Matrix

William A. Andrews 

9. Putting Love First: Redefining Managing, Organising and The Future of Work

Elena P. Antonacopoulou 

10. Socio-Emotional Resources and the Principle of Human Dignity in the Workplace—the Case of Workplace Romance

Coralie Fiori-Khayat 

11. Adapting a Ministry of Love for the Workplace Transformation: A Case Study and The Chaplaincy of Centers for Wiser Leadership

Teresa J. Rothausen and Thomas G. Maridada. 

12. "Tough Love" Characterizing Paternalistic Leadership: The Case of Family Firms

Nava Michael Tsabari, Francesco Barbera and Bart Henssen 

13. An Exploratory Study of Leaders’ Expression of Love and Followers Perceptions of Satisfaction and Engagement in the Workplace

Franklin Alexander Markow 

14. Psychopathy and An Absence of Love in Organizations

Clive Boddy and Louise Boulter

Biography

Michael Pirson holds the Felix E. Larkin Chaired Professorship in Humanistic Management at Fordham University, and is a full Professor with a focus on Global Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship. He is a research associate at Harvard University's Human Flourishing Program (HFP). He co-founded the Humanistic Management Network and is founder and president of the International Humanistic Management Association. He is the Editor in Chief of the Humanistic Management Journal. Pirson is a full member of the Club of Rome, leads the Humanistic Management working group at the UNPRME and advises a number of social enterprises. He has won numerous awards for his work including from the Academy of Management and the Association of Jesuit Universities.