ABSTRACT
Socially responsible capitalism recognizes the requirement to match technical and operational skills expected for vacant jobs with employees' and workers' expectations, as human persons. The socioeconomic approach to management is a model that fosters initiative and empowerment. This chapter introduces some philosophical considerations, which allow us to find the deep roots of humanism that some wrongly accuse the capitalist system of forgetting. In the framework of socially and sustainably responsible capitalism, which could be summarized as a cumulative process of economic and social development, stagnation of productive capacity is impossible. It is matter for the company to go further or disappear because, by definition, it is a place for movement and metamorphosis encouraged by an exogenous stimulation such as external strategic threat. In the seventeenth century only the evolution of competencies and skills would allow technology to yield its full potential.
