The Institute for Management Research at Uniwersytet Civitas, together with Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, are delighted to announce the launch of a 🆕️ international, open-access scientific journal dedicated to exploring the intersections of management, aesthetics, art, and humanism.

We invite submissions for the inaugural issue, scheduled for publication in December 2025 📆

📖 “Art of Humanistic Management Journal” is an interdisciplinary and inclusive platform that reimagines management not merely as a technical or instrumental activity, but as an art.

📖 This approach stays in line with the humanistic paradigm in management that underlines human dignity, creativity, culture, and social flourishing.

📖 At the same time, we recognise that artistic practices themselves are embedded in organisational and managerial processes and can inspire seeking unconventional solutions.

📖 By bridging the art of management with the management of art, the journal provides a unique space for dialogue across disciplines, perspectives, paradigms, and practices.

Themes of the inaugural issue:

➡️ Management as an art: art of leadership, aesthetic leadership, art of creativity, metaphors, narrations.

➡️ Organisational aesthetics: the role of beauty, truth, meaning, kitsch, reflexivity, and imagination in organisational life.

➡️ Humanistic management: protecting dignity, fostering well-being, and cultivating life-conducive forms of organising.

➡️ Critical theory: aesthetic and cultural evaluations of instrumentalist approaches to management.

➡️ Art management: aesthetic situation, art perception, involvement and satisfaction in the arts, managerial and organisational issues and challenges in artistic and cultural institutions and projects, organising and sustaining creative communities.

➡️ Cross-disciplinary and cross-field insights, dialogues, and reflections for creating a better world to live in.

Types of contributions:

📃 Research articles (theoretical, empirical, methodological).

📃 Conceptual essays and reflective pieces.

Descriptions of artistic or creative interventions, accompanied by critical commentary.

📃 Case studies from practice (organisational, cultural, or policy contexts).

📃 Reviews of relevant books, exhibitions, or artistic projects.

📆 Submission deadline: 31 October 2025. Notification of acceptance: November 2025. Publication: December 2025.

📧 Contact, cooperation and submissions of papers: Professor Michał Szostak, Editor-in-Chief, [email protected]