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21st of June 2013, One George Street, Westminster, London

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Joint conference with CRESS on happiness in London, UK, 2013

Happiness and Well Being at Work

The Centre for Research in Employment, Skills & Society (CRESS) at Kingston Business School, UK, the Humanistic Management Center and the Humanistic Management Network jointly invite you to our 2013 conference on Happiness and Well Being at Work. The conference will take place at one of London's premier conference venues on June 21st 2013.

We live in a time of multiple crises and consensus that business as usual is no longer an option is fast emerging. In the debate on alternative ways to conduct business, the one-dimensional objective function of the firm as a profit maximizing venture has come under great scrutiny. This conference, titled Happiness and Well Being at Work, Bridging the Gap between Academia, Policy and Practice will bring together management practitioners, policy makers and academics to explore how happiness and well being can serve as an alternative or complementary objective of business.

Following our successful conference in St. Gallen, Switzerland on the same topic in June 2012, we cordially invite you to our second event on this exciting topic. The Centre for Research in Employment, Skills & Society (CRESS) at Kingston Business School, UK, the Humanistic Management Center and the Humanistic Management Network together with our partners and supporters are looking forward to welcoming you at One Great George Street , one of London's premier conference locations on June 21st 2013.

You can find registration details and the full program under the following links:

Conference Program: Happiness and Well Being at Work

Conference Registration

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"On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world, shareholder value is a result, not a strategy … Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products." Jack Welsh


"Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper." Kazuo Inamori


"It is not because I have a lot of money that I pay my workers well but because I pay my workers well I have a lot of money." Robert Bosch


"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." Peter Drucker


"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." Anne Frank


"Wealth consists in using things rather than in owning them; it is really the activity – that is, the use – of property that constitutes wealth." Aristoteles


"Everything has either a price or dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else which is equivalent; whatever, on the other hand, is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity." Immanuel Kant


"And this is common to all external things that they are good to the extent that they lead to virtue, but not in themselves." Thomas Aquinas


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"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." Henry Ford


"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." John Kenneth Galbraith


"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." Desmond Tutu


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"We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization." Kofi Annan


"Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life." Dalai Lama


"Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence." Hannah Arendt


"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary." Martin Luther King, Jr.


"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world." Mary Wollstonecraft


"Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion." The Talmud