Maria-Teresa Lepeley

Global Institute for Quality Education

Unprecedented disruptions and crises affecting people in the workplace and the marketplace since 2020 in the global VUCA environment call special attention to assess organizational results using new human centered approaches and innovative methods to reach effective solutions. The traditional process oriented- resource focus management is no longer...

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 effec...

By the turn of 21st century people, worker and consumers had attained the highest levels of prosperity and wellbeing since WWII. To large extent progress was the result of the Quality Movement that started by 1980 secured by the emerging Quality Management QM discipline. QM is the operational methodology that induced the paradigm shift in managemen...

CALL FOR CHAPTERS Forthcoming edited book Routledge Human Centered Management Book Series https://www.routledge.com/Human-Centered-Management/book-series/HUMCM Title: Human Centered Management and Crisis: Workplace Disruption, Wellbeing, and Organizational Sustainability

This chapter introduces our Life–Work Continuum model that addresses the shortcomings of Work–Life Balance approaches to organizational culture (OC). This model embraces the wellbeing of working people in human centered (HC) organizations. We examine obstacles presented by the “work-life” dichotomy that emphasized conflictual interactions between “...

1st Edition Soft Skills for Human Centered Management and Global Sustainability Edited By Maria-Teresa Lepeley, Nicholas J. Beutell, Nureya Abarca, Nicolas Majluf Copyright Year 2021 This book is part of the Human Centered Book Trilogy, the 2021 volumes of the Routledge Human Centered Management HCM Series. HCM books are pioneering transformatio...

This study focuses on the transition processes of 12 women entrepreneurs in Chile who experience business failure and later were able to start new business ventures successfully. Results show that negative effects of intense entrepreneurial demands can spill over personal, family life, and romantic relationship, creating a high degree of guilt with...

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Book Title: HUMAN CENTERED ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Publisher: Routledge This book will be part of a Book Trilogy in Routledge’s Human Centered Management (HCM) Series to be published in 2020. The two complementary books are Constructive Sensible Leadership and SOFT SKILLS: The missing link to quality human performance and enha...

CALL FOR CHAPTERS Book title: SOFT SKILLS: The missing link to quality human performance and enhanced organizational sustainability Publisher: Routledge This book will be part of a Book Trilogy in Routledge’s Human Centered Management Series to be published in 2020. The two complementary books will be Constructive Sensible Leadership and Human Cen...

Women perform nearly two-thirds of total work (including household duties), comprise one-third of the formal labor force, but receive only one-tenth of the world income and own one-hundredth of the world’s property. This book brings together distinguished entrepreneurship scholars to provide a unique global vision of the wellbeing of women entrepre...

Capital were published decades ago and challenged the same human dilemma. Yet, with few exceptions, most countries are still struggling for effective formulas to put people at the center of development. The core issue is that investing in people means improving the quality of education for all. But the main problem is that countries continue to tak...

Capital were published decades ago and challenged the same human dilemma. Yet, with few exceptions, most countries are still struggling for effective formulas to put people at the center of development. The core issue is that investing in people means improving the quality of education for all. But the main problem is that countries continue to tak...

We, educators, are often so involved in daily teaching duties that lack time to absorb the broader picture of what is happening beyond our classrooms in a rapidly changing world. That is the norm in our profession. But our responsibility is to constantly improve the wellbeing of all the students enrolled in our classes. Education is the most import...

The wellbeing of people has been a main concern for humankind. For Greek philosophers in BC times human wellbeing was a central matter for progress and a fundamental drive for society. And their thoughts have influenced conceptions of wellbeing until today. But in the 20th century the importance of human wellbeing was displaced by pressing imperat...

Call for book chapters on "wellbeing and women in entrepreneurship".

The limitations of gross domestic product (GDP) to measure people’s well-being have been widely discussed and documented in the literature. In this context, Bhutan’s pioneering experience with gross national happiness (GNH) is a welcome departure from traditional global practices to measure a nation’s wealth and well-being. Bhutan’s concept of GNH...

Purpose Women in entrepreneurship can have a significant impact on economic and social development globally and particularly in developing countries. But the challenges entrepreneurial women face are unique and multiple, pressing the need for research and policies to maximize impact. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the challenges women star...

We have never had more freedom to acquire information to make decisions, and organizations in this global VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) environment have never been so pressed to demonstrate accountability to communicate effectively with better informed customers and users. Human beings are no longer just a resource, they are the...

We have never had more freedom to acquire information to make decisions, and organizations have never been so pressed to demonstrate accountability as they communicate with better informed customers and users. People who work IN an organization must also work FOR the organization to accomplish its mission. In this environment, humans are no longer...

Purpose Latin American investors are commonly suspicious of investing in copreneurial ventures (a male and female couple, integrated as a working team) and show even higher levels of uncertainty when the start-ups are led by a female founder. The purpose of this paper is to address issues related to women as leaders in copreneurial tech ventures an...

This paper explores the challenges women working in high-technology start-ups most frequently have to face and solve. The study is based in a literature review of issues that help to explain the differences between the genders showing that this is an understudied research area with broad opportunity to further studies with potential to uncover new...

It may sound redundant to start a discussion or continue debating why the human being should be at the center of management and organizations in the 21st century and into the well-advanced era of knowledge and the internet. But evidence shows that despite advances in management there are still orgnaizations that focus on other interests over and be...

More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle, the Greek philosopher who started Western scientific inquiry as a comprehensive and integrational system of knowledge, said that Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. In spite of few who could dispute Aristotle’s vision today, the challenge it presents for educators is immense....

Entrepreneurship is an ancient trade in world history but its formal study pioneered by Schumpeter and Drucker is fairly recent. Then there is still a great deal to learn and particularly about women’s participation in entrepreneurship and economic activity. A field that has intensified in the last decades with increasing prospects to foster chang...

Management is facing unprecedented challenges. Old models of the industrial past no longer match demands of better informed consumers, workers, stakeholders and neither meet quality standards required for organization sustainability. Human Centered Management provides solutions based on the fundamental principle that human beings are not just anoth...

Joseph Schumpeter, the Austrian American economist who pioneered the study of entrepreneurship during the last century, in his paper “The Creative Response in Economic History” (1947), claimed that entrepreneurs change the world with innovations and technology. Those “wild spirits,” as he called them, are moved by an Unternehmergeist, or “entrepren...

Quality standards are increasing demanded to manage effective high performing organizations. Medicine among them. This presentation is focused on leadership principles and management practices deployed worldwide to systematize continuous improvement and quality standards in organizations. Presentation emphasizes the role and responsibilities of wom...

The main business of business education should be to benefit students, helping them to become innovative, entrepreneurial, happy persons, highly productive workers able to foster business competitiveness and make significant contributions to economic expansion and social progress in the country.

Soft skills are recognized as a key issue within the Intellectual Capital (IC) framework for leading companies in a global economy. An increasing number of authors and specialists in IC are emphasizing the specific role of people' soft competences as a condition to consolidate new and well established business initiatives. At the same time soft com...

A learner centered and educator leadership management model aimed to facilitate evaluation of personal and professional performance of educators and educational institutions at all levels. Model is based on systematic assessment of progress and identification of areas of improvement as necessary condition to advance to continuous improvement in mos...

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