Virtuous Practices: Proposition of a Typology of Humility Culture Maturity

EasyChair Preprint 14297

Abstract

Although virtuous practices enhance organizational excellence, the virtue and culture of humility are little studied in the field of management due to their conceptual challenges. In order to cover this gap, and considering that the virtue of humility is evolving as a cultural value in an increasing way, this theoretical-exploratory study proposes a typology of humility culture maturity (THCM) that signals a progressive path of this virtue as a value in organizations. The methodological approach adopted is anchored in a theoretical foundation derived from Schein's (2010) organizational culture models, from Galbraith´s (1983) conceptions, from Maldonado et al´s. (2018) organizational humility model, and from Owens et al´s (2013; 2015) individual humility model. Likewise, the typology design is based on the procedures for configuring culture maturity models, such as those of Parker (2006) and Rocha et al. (2023). The combination of these theories makes it possible to suggest a continuum of 5 stages of culture maturity: rhetorical, embryonic, stimulated, full and virtuous, with each stage reflecting different behavioral regimes respectively, progressing from unconcerned, reactive, obligatory, voluntary to unconscious, where humility practices are conducted in an organic way and internalized into virtuous actions, in a demonstration of culture maturity. By proposing the construction of an unpublished progressive and objective typology, the study broadens the understanding of the culture of humility, and makes its analysis more useful, opening up space for the further creation and validation of humility culture maturity models, filling an instrumental gap in the management literature and contributing to organizational excellence.

Keyphrases: Humility, culture maturity, humble behavior, virtue

@booklet{EasyChair:14297,
  author    = {Renato Cuenca and Patricia Amelia Tomei},
  title     = {Virtuous Practices: Proposition of a Typology of Humility Culture Maturity},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 14297},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2024}}