Abstract

This paper presents a transversal approach that is necessary for teaching humanities in management educational organizations. The purpose of this work is to broaden the scope of our educational business community toward human sciences and cultural studies, areas of knowledge poorly studied in our business universities, where disciplines such as management, marketing, human resources, and so on supposedly include the mentioned humanist fields in their course outlines and seminars. This paper shows how for the intellectual development of our students and future managers, it is vital that business institutions value the role of humanist disciplines of critical inquiry with independent multidisciplinary human sciences departments. Along with this line of thought, this paper discusses how different management and business educational institutions—respecting the peculiarities and/or the specific characteristics of each culture—can contribute in the creation of an open learning organization thanks to humanities.