This edited book frames a new ethos of management that cares for society, future generations and nature whilst also serving the interests of business and the wider community. Employing the practical wisdom of faith traditions, the chapters develop the use of spirituality as a resource for creating business models that take pressing social problems such as quality of life at work, over-consumption, environmental degradation and climate change into account. Spanning entrepreneurship, leadership, management education and business models, the chapters in this book aim to develop a spiritually-based caring model of management to face the challenges and reality of the 21 st century.

Presents a spiritually-based caring models of management Examines the relevance of faith traditions for entrepreneurship Discusses pressing social issues of the Anthropocene

Autorentext
Ora Setter is a Lecturer at the Social Science Faculty and the Coller Business School, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Dr. Setter was the chairwoman of Psycho-Dharma, a school for implementation of Buddhist psychology, where she teaches courses in Buddhism and management. A senior consultant to many leading companies in Israel, focusing on organizational development, her areas of expertise are change management, power and politics, knowledge management, and building and organizing training programs for organizations.

Laszlo Zsolnai is Professor and Director of the Business Ethics Center at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. He is chairman of the Business Ethics Faculty Group of the CEMS The Global Alliance in Management Education. He is president of the European SPES Institute in Leuven, Belgium and Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts in London, UK. He has been a guest professor or visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the University of California at Berkeley, Georgetown University, the University of Richmond, Concordia University Montreal, the University of St. Gallen, Bocconi University Milan, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.

Inhalt
Care, and its Relevance for Today's Economy.- Authentic Human Relations and the Economy.- Caring for Being and Caring for Other.- Getting to the Heart of Compassion in Philosophy and Economic Life.- Consciousness Approach to Management and Economics.- New Metrics for a New Economy The B2T by 2020 Project.- Social Catholic Thought and the Economy of Communion as Business Model.- Dignity, Love and Servant-Leadership.- Social Entrepreneurship, Conscience, and the Common Good.- The Caring Attitude of Christian and Buddhist Entrepreneurs.- Caring Entrepreneurship and Ecological Conscience The Case of Patagonia Inc..- Spirituality and Caring in Organizations: The Convenant Metaphor.- Creative Spirit in Management Education Insights from Rabindranath Tagore.- Spirituality, Caring Organizations and Corporate Effectiveness Are Business Schools Developing such a Path towards a Better Future?.