Humanities and the values that the subject area teaches to students
are of relevance in a way that these can be applied to practical
situations and the workplace environment. Whether it’s the business
arena or any other corporate workplace environment, humanities can
be applied to enhance the operations and outlook of an organization.
For every organization, the fulcrum of operational excellence is its
manpower. Even with the use of technology, organizations will still
need manpower or humans (Hammarfelt, 2014). Human resource
management in any sphere of the corporate world needs the use of
humanities principles. Apart from human resource management,
there are other areas where humanities can come into the
application. In the current scenario, business and work are all about
building relations and capitalizing on them as a network. In this case,
humanities and values of the subject always have a scope of
application.
Today, any work environment is a global and multicultural melting
pot of skills and capabilities. A person from one part of the world
may collaborate with a person from a completely opposite part of the
world (Hammarfelt, 2014). In such cases, a professional with a strong
knowledge of different cultures and languages can create a fruitful,
long-standing professional relationship with other professionals.
Today, when all of us are working through a remote professional
ecosystem, the use of humanities skills like language, cultural
knowledge, and history can help us create better connections and
establish teamwork.
The use of humanities, its values and principles can be used in
creating an equal and inclusive environment at work. At a time where
minor and major communities are coming at an equal pace with
representation, humanities help us respect the need for
representation and create an inclusive workspace for people
(Hammarfelt, 2014). A deep understanding of humanities helps us
remain in the know of equality and human rights, which helps create
a respectful and productive workspace for diverse individuals.
The humanities also help inculcate the value of empathy which is
very necessary when dealing with human resources and different
situations. Empathy can be exercised in many professional situations
to promote a healthy and productive workplace for all employees.
Empathy not only allows us the room to understand our colleague's
perspective and broadens ours but also helps us understand the
customer mindset so that our organization can better serve the end-
users. The exercise of empathy improves not only operations but
sales and bottom-line figures. The principles of humanities help in the
critical evaluation of a situation from a humane point of view to
assess the real-time effect of any decision on people associated with
the situation. The use of humanities and its values helps improve the
decision-making process of an organization.
References
Hammarfelt, B. (2014). Using altmetrics for assessing research impact
in the humanities. Scientometrics, 101(2), 1419-1430.
