Description
Human Centered Management and Crisis: Disruptions, Resilience, Wellbeing and Sustainability is the new edited book of the Human Centered Management (HCM) Series developed to respond to surmounting concerns of global audiences and human centered scholars, practitioners and students searching for answers to better and objectively understand the effects of unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic disruptions and ongoing crises, affecting the wellbeing of people and workplaces since 2019. The effects linger and solutions are pressing. This new HCM volume presents analytical expertise and practical experiences of a team of international HCM scholars and practitioners targeting objective assessment of causes and effects of disruptions and offering coherent solutions applying HCM principles and practices. The book chapters include topics dealing with specific problem-solving strategies in numerous industries, among them, higher education, health care and entrepreneurship. The book will help readers worldwide to understand the challenges people and organizations are facing in the present global VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment. The audience will benefit from the book and its purpose to deliver enduring HCM solutions anchored in the wellbeing of people as precondition for organizations to secure high performance, quality standards and long-term sustainability.
Table of Contents
PART 1: Human Centered Management and Crisis Fundamentals
1. Resilience as an Outcome of Human Centered Empowerment
Peter Essens
2. The Multiplier Effect of HCM
Maria-Teresa Lepeley
3. Managing the Quality Crisis: Restoring Human Wellbeing
Maria-Teresa Lepeley
4. Life-Work Continuum in Times of Crisis: A Family Perspective
Nicholas J. Beutell
5. Integrative HCM View of Resilience and WellbeingPeter Essens, Maria-Teresa Lepeley and Nicholas J. Beutell
PART 2: HCM and Crises: Workplace Disruptions and Solutions
6. The Great Resignation in South Africa
Linda Ronnie
7. Emotional Creativity, Resilience and Work Performance
Anielson Barbosa da Silva, José Wilker Mâcedo
8. Psychosocial Dimensions of Telework Overload during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Paola Ochoa, David Coello-Montecel, and Josep M. Blanch
PART 3: Higher Education: Disruptions and Solutions
9. Pandemic Disruptions Affecting Wellbeing of Academic Women in South Africa
Marieta du Plessis, Linda Ronnie, and Cyrill Walters
10. Mindfulness Program to Strengthen Mental Health during Crises
Anielson Barbosa da Silva
11. Transition to Telework in an Academic Setting in Peru
Oswaldo Morales, Sergio Morales, and Gareth H. Rees
12. Online Higher Education and Pandemic Disruptions
Rosa Ulloa
PART 4: Health Care: Disruptions and Solutions
13. Healthcare Professionals and Emerging Psychosocial Risks
Josep M. Blanch, Paola Ochoa, David Coello-Montecel
PART 5: Entrepreneurship: Disruptions and solutions
14. Prosocial Entrepreneurship in Times of Crisis
Maureen O'Callaghan
15. Emerging Human Centered Entrepreneurship
Katherina Kuschel and Fernando Merino
16. Women Entrepreneurs and Time Management
Stacy Brecht and Séverine Le Loarne-Lemaire
