Humanity: A focus—On the value of humanity in enterprise management

Humanity has abundant meanings in our life. In enterprise management, humanity serves as an unseen lever or monitor to evaluate whether an enterprise and its management patterns are qualified or not. In history, we may find various theories or thoughts about management humanity. In the west, we can read Abraham H. Maslow, Douglas Mcgregor, Edgar H. Schein, Jay W. Lorsch and John J. Morse, W. G. Ouchi, etc. while in China, we may refer to Confucius, Mencius, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, and some modern scholars such as CHEN Zhongying, SU Dongshui, LI Zhanxiang, etc. In enterprise management, humanity is undoubtedly important for the employees, the managers, the enterprises as well as the society. Drucker´s management philosophy is a good model to study. To make sure that humanity does good to enterprise management, we should adopt different ways to enhance the value of humanity in enterprise management: (1) Be earnest to the study of the management humanity and make an innovation from management as a vocation to management as a scientific activity, and finally management as a philosophy, (2) Be true to our soul and know well about our advantages and disadvantages to avoid the potential problems, (3) Be open-minded and far-sighted about the new discoveries and achievements both at home and abroad, and (4) Be confident about the national enterprise management, learn from the traditions and renew our mind. All in all, humanity is a focus in human history and it will be a focus in the coming eras too. To prove the value and capability of an enterprise, humanity is an important mirror.