Human Dignity and Managerial Responsibility

Ana-Maria Davila-Gomez is Associate Professor in the Department of Administrative Sciences at the University of Quebec (Universite du Quebec en Outaouais) in Canada, where she teaches Management, Organizational Change, and Interculturality. Her current researches include managers' challenges towards more socially responsible organizations, as well as human virtues and responsiveness from management education. She holds a Ph.D. from the A0/00cole des hautes etudes commerciales de Montreal, Canada, and an MBA and an Industrial Engineer degrees from the Universidad del Valle, Colombia. For several years, she worked at various private and public organizations in Colombia (e.g. governmental service, telecommunications, and manufacturing) supporting and implementing Information Technology and Business Process Reengineering projects. David Crowther (www.davideacrowther.com) is Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility and Head of the Centre for Research into Organisational Governance at De Montfort University, UK. He is also Chair of the Social Responsibility Research Network (www.socialresponsibility.biz) a worldwide network with over 750 members, organizer of the series of International Conferences on Corporate Social Responsibility (now in its 11th year) and editor of Social Responsibility Journal. He has published 35 books and has also contributed over 350 articles to academic, business and professional journals and to edited book collections. He has also spoken widely at conferences and seminars and acted as a consultant to a wide range of government, professional and commercial organisations. His research is into corporate social responsibility with a particular emphasis on the relationship between social, environmental and financial performance.