The Institute for Ethics in Communication and Organizations of the Universitat de València has published the Decalogue of Best Practices in Humanistic Leadership on its social media and website. The document has a list of non-negotiable commitments to make organizations more humane places. Practices that, while contributing to the highest productivity of the organization, also ensure the immeasurable dignity of people and their human flourishing with an ethical purpose that respects the planet and looks for the common good without renouncing to the benefits.

This Decalogue is the result of the co-creation between academics and business owners 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). In line with the Manifest on its website; Michael Prison (Founder and president of the IHMA) encourages all the organisations who wish to adhere to this Decalogue to make a commitment to create a Humanistic Culture of care, commitment and trust.

Manuel Guillén (Director of IECO and of the The International IECO-UV Business Ethics Chair and representative of the Universitat de València at the RCC of Harvard) explains that a Humanistic Culture 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.

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

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

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

7. Encouraging excellent work, ordered, intense and constant, with attention to details, high levels of performance and a sense of calling and service.

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

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

10. 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.

To adhere to the commitments of this Decalogue of Best Practices in Humanistic Leadership you can follow this link.