ABSTRACT
If scholars and managers want to rehumanize management thinking to answer the call for a more sustainable and human centered perspective on Human Resource Management, assumptions about what culture entails must also be rehumanized. By building on social complexity literature, this chapter aims to advance the Human Centered Management (HCM) paradigm by discussing an alternative concept of organizational culture that starts at the micro-level of human interactions and advances these dynamics to organization's meta-level and to population-wide social inclusive macro patterns of meaning and behavior. The chapter concludes by discussing implications for conceptualizing organizational culture as a process and by discussing how the social complexity lens can contribute to consolidate HCM in organizations and help practitioners in the field.
