DECALOGUE
OF BEST PRACTICES

Competitive organizations committed to people, well done work and service to society.

We present the Decalogue of Best Practices in Humanistic Leadership, a challenge for those companies with a shared ethical purpose of promoting a Humanistic Culture of care, trust and commitment; organizations that, without giving up their benefits, productivity and competitiveness, put the good of people and service to society first.

What is the Decalogue of Best Practices in Humanistic Leadership?

The Decalogue of Best Practices in Humanistic Leadership published by IECO is a list of non-negotiable commitments to make organizations more humane places to work. Practices that, while contributing to the highest productivity of the organization, also ensure the immeasurable dignity of people and their human flourishing/happiness.
In short, a set of commitments inspired by the logic of love, a logic that leads to the search for the good of all people involved with the organization and to the balance between the organizational and the personal purpose of all its members, by carrying out a well done and productive work, with a sense of calling and service.

Why subscribe to the Decalogue?

Because we, business owners and managers who seriously want to put people at the center of the business activity, have the responsibility to promote a Humanistic Leadership, assuming the challenge of fostering care, trust, and commitment to people and the planet, while working for the creation of a Humanistic Culture in our organizations that seeks the truly human good of all the people involved in the organization, where personal and organizational purpose of all its members are aligned, fostering a vision of excellent, well done and highly productive work and with a sense of calling and service.

Organizations that share this vision and wish to join the Mission of promoting a Humanistic Culture, are committed to follow these practices:

Honoring immeasurable human dignity and promoting the flourishing/happiness of all people.

Ensuring the most dignified working conditions, so that all people are and feel treated as they would like to be treated, including knowing how to ask, listen, and respond to each person.

Promoting psychological safety, encouraging initiative, accountability and recognition, honoring the vulnerability of all people.

Having a noble organizational purpose that contributes to the highest performance of the organization and to the full human development of all, respecting our common home, the planet.

Ensuring that the noble organizational purpose is known, shared and lived by everyone in the organization.

Fostering an alignment and balance between personal and organizational purpose that contributes to the common good and the wellbeing of all life on a living planet.

Encouraging excellent work, ordered, intense and constant. Encouraging excellent work, ordered, intense and constant.

Engaging in good practices and behaviors that build trust and foster professional, emotional and moral commitment to the organization.

Developing tools and indicators that measure organizational results and business profit, as well as personal growth in attitudes, skills and human qualities.

Creating a culture of care, inspired by the logic of love, which leads to the search for the true good of all people involved with the organization.

WHO PROMOTES
THIS DECALOGUE?

This Decalogue is the result of the co-creation Lab reflections among academics and business owners and senior managers during the first week of May at the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard (RCC) promoted by IECO Institute and endorsed by the International Humanistic Management Association (IHMA) on June 1st, 2022.