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POPE JOHN PAUL II to future managers

Inspiration to

„study, spread and apply” the social teaching of Pope John Paul II

To Participants of the World Youth Day

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Greetings to future managers

participants of the World Youth Day in Krakow

Pope John Paul II in HIS Encyclical CENTESIMUS ANNUS (CA 56)

wrote: „...there is my wish the celebration of this anniversary will wake up new

enthusiasm to „study, spread and apply” of the social teaching of the Church”.

As Inspiration for you, future managers, to this „study”, will be the sample excerpts of

HIS teaching cited in PART 1. While in PART 2. excerpts of our research findings on the

application in organizations of POPE’s John Paul II teaching, and the first „Eight

PRINCIPLES of ethical work”, for which research has demonstrated statistically significant

positive correlation with labour productivity – let be an inspiration for YOU to „spread and

apply”.

The research devoted to the impact of WORK ETHICS on BUSINESS, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

and RESPONSIBILITY according to John Paul II devoted to broad understanding BIZNESS are

conducted since 10 years by The Bogdan Janski Academy. This kind of research, year by year

indicates that, when applied, makes impact both on competitiveness as well as on the growth of

labour productivity, on the growth of sales, what makes possible growth of salaries and wages for

employees.

The need to conduct this kind of research by Young Managers Ethicality Researchers [YMER]

in the scope of the YMER worldwide net, we have presented at the 5th ISBEE World Conference 2012

was conducted in Warsaw.

We wish YOU successful „studying, spreading and application” for multiplication of

common good, in the spirit of St John Paul II teaching, through a „ new culture of work, which takes

into consideration the spiritual and material needs of human being and respects his basic rights”.

Fr. prof. dr hab. Stanisław Urbański Fr. Dr Mariusz Szajda Fr. Marian Piwko, CR

Chief Editor Pro Rector of the Academy Chancellor, School Founder

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PART 1. CENTESIMUS ANNUS, LABOREM EXERCENS,

SOLLICITUDO REI SOCIALIS, FIDES ET RATIO

Encyclicals of POPE JOHN PAUL II (selected sub chapters for managers)

The Editors of the below presented three publications, in the 15 years period of transfer to

managers and future managers the social teaching of Pope John II, have selected full genuine

61 sub chapters out of 217 in total. Those have been selected, which may help managers and

future managers to manage (to lead people at work), taking into consideration the ethics

and socially responsible development according to Pope John Paul II. The source of

Encyclicals are originals published by LIBRERIA EDITRICE VATICANA, www.vatican.va

Attention: „Blue sub titles” that are genuine excerpts drawn of the contents of the sub

chapters, what makes HIS most important statements accessible in a condensed and easily

understandable form.

Dear PARTICIPANT of the World Youth Days we inspire YOU to

„study”. To „study” it means assimilate for application.

For inspiration please “study” this subchapter (CA 43)

43. The Church has no models to present; models that are real and truly effective can

only arise within the framework of different historical situations, through the efforts of all

those who responsibly confront concrete problems in all their social, economic, political and

cultural aspects, as these interact with one another.84

Please “study” in this publication:

POPE JOHN PAUL II TO MANAGERS

You will find selected set of sub chapters from HIS Encyclical:

„CENTESIMUS ANNUS”(CA). and results of the application of HIS teaching in 104 companies in Poland Link : http://www.janski.edu.pl/file/uploadFck/PopeJohnIItomamagers2011.pdf

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the Church offers her social teaching as an indispensable and ideal orientation For such a task the Church offers her social teaching as an indispensable and ideal orientation, a teaching which, as already mentioned, recognizes the positive value of the market and of enterprise,

oriented towards the common good

but which at the same time points out that these need to be oriented towards the

common good.

dignity This teaching also recognizes the legitimacy of workers' efforts to obtain full respect for their

dignity and

participation…"work for themselves"85

to gain broader areas of participation in the life of industrial enterprises so that, while

cooperating with others and under the direction of others, they can in a certain sense "work

for themselves"85 through the exercise of their intelligence and freedom.

The integral development of the human person The integral development of the human person through work does not impede but rather

promotes the greater productivity and efficiency of work itself, even though it may weaken

consolidated power structures.

"society of persons" A business cannot be considered only as a "society of capital goods"; it is also a "society of

persons" in which people participate in different ways and with specific responsibilities,

whether they supply the necessary capital for the company's activities or take part in such

activities through their labour.

workers' movement To achieve these goals there is still need for a broad associated workers' movement, directed

towards the liberation and promotion of the whole person.

the relationship between individual or private property and the universal destination of material wealth

In the light of today's "new things", we have re-read the relationship between individual or private property and the universal destination of material wealth. Man fulfils himself by using his intelligence and freedom. In so doing he utilizes the things of this world as objects and instruments and makes them his own. The foundation of the right to private initiative and ownership is to be found in this activity.

for others and with others By means of his work man commits himself, not only for his own sake but also for others and

with others. Each person collaborates in the work of others and for their good. Man works in

order to provide for the needs of his family, his community, his nation, and ultimately all

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humanity.86

in a progressively expanding chain of solidarity Moreover, he collaborates in the work of his fellow employees, as well as in the work of

suppliers and in the customers' use of goods, in a progressively expanding chain of solidarity.

Ownership of the means of production,… is just and legitimate… is just and legitimate (if not productive J.D.) Ownership of the means of production, whether in industry or agriculture, is just and legitimate if it serves useful work. It becomes illegitimate, however, when it is not utilized or when it serves to impede the work of others, in an effort to gain a profit which is not the result of the overall expansion of work and the wealth of society, but rather is the result of curbing them or of illicit exploitation, speculation or the breaking of solidarity among working

people.87 Ownership of this kind has no justification, and represents an abuse in the sight of God and man.

satisfactory levels of employment The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right is systematically denied, in which economic policies do not allow workers to reach satisfactory levels of employment, cannot be justified from an ethical

point of view, nor can that society attain social peace.88 Just as the person fully realizes himself in the free gift of self, so too ownership morally justifies itself in the creation, at the proper time and in the proper way, of opportunities for work and human growth for all.

Please, for inspiration, „study” select one of these sub chapters which raised Your interest : Truth [FR 2] Human thought development [FR 101] Planetary ethics [FR 104] Civilization of love [CA 10 ] Modern business economy [CA 32] Business economy, Free economy [CA 42] Human rights [CA 47] Common good [CA 47], 34, 43, 52 Culture of nation – and the YOUTH [CA 50] MAN – central place in society [CA 54]

POPE JOHN PAUL II TO LECTURERS, STUDENTS,

Young Managers Ethicality Researchers YMER

MAN, ETHICS, ECONOMICS

Was handed over to participants of the 5th World Congress of the International Society of Business Ethics Economics - ISBEE 2012 in Warsaw

You will find selected sub chapters for future managers from HIS Encyclicals

“FAITH & REASON” and “CENTESIMUS ANNUS” Link: http://www.janski.edu.pl/file/uploadFck/POPEJOHNPAULIItoLecturers,Students,YoungManagers.pdf

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Authentic development of man and society (SRS )

1. The social concern of the Church, directed towards an authentic development of man and society

which would respect and promote all the dimensions of the human person, has always expressed

itself in the most varied ways. In recent years, one of the special means of intervention has been the

Magisterium of the Roman Pontiffs which, beginning with the Encyclical Rerum Novarum of Leo

XIII as a point of reference,1 has frequently dealt with the question and has sometimes made the

dates of publication of the various social documents coincide with the anniversaries of that first

document.2

to their vocation as responsible builders of earthly society. The Popes have not failed to throw fresh light by means of those messages upon new aspects of the social

doctrine of the Church. As a result, this doctrine, beginning with the outstanding contribution of Leo XIII and

enriched by the successive contributions of the Magisterium, has now become an updated doctrinal "corpus."

It builds up gradually, as the Church, in the fullness of the word revealed by Christ Jesus3 and with the

assistance of the Holy Spirit (cf. Jn 14:16, 26; 16:13-15), reads events as they unfold in the course of history.

She thus seeks to lead people to respond, with the support also of rational reflection and of the human

sciences, to their vocation as responsible builders of earthly society.

PART 2. PRINCIPLES OF ETHICAL WORK AND CRITERIA OF SOCIAL

DEVELOPMENT formulated on the basis of Pope’s John Paul II

as the foundation to develop “Work Ethicality Management” for future managers

Dear PARTICIPANT, we like to inspire You to „apply” because they lead to a „new culture of work which takes into consideration the spiritual and material needs of

human being and respects his basic rights” - what has requested Pope John Paul II To „apply” You may prepare yourself by using this new tool for the education

of future managers at universities and business schools

Link: http://www.symulator.janski.edu.pl

The simulator is available to You (free of chargé) in the Internet in English: Main Page and Part II. (tactical)

Please, continue „studying” in the publication:

POPE JOHN PAUL II TO LECTURERS, STUDENTS, Young Managers Ethicality Researchers YMER

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT & RESPONSIBILITY. HUMAN WORK

YMER research & inspiratons

You will find selected set of subchapters from HIS Encyclicals:

„SOLLICITUDO REI SOCIALIS” and „LABOREM EXERCENS” Link: http://warszawa.janski.edu.pl/files/POPE_JOHN_PAUL_II_SOCIAL_do_druku__6_5a_.pdf

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“Eight(8) PRINCIPLES of ethical work” according to the work ethics of Pope John Paul II,

for which research has demonstrated statistically significant positive correlation with labour productivity

This “Eight(8) PRINCIPLES of ethical work” are allocated in the “Work Ethicality Standard EC1000(Exposure draft), we

have based on an European Union research in 16 countries, on European Association of Productivity Centres’ Memorandum

and on the social teaching of Pope John Paul II. for the XXI Century.

(ATTENTION: the text in quotation marks of “ blue colour”, please read as the original fragments drawn from the Encyclical

“CENTESIMUS ANNUS” of John Paul II (according to Libreria Editrice Vaticana.va). The “black colour” are added to formulate

the “PRINCIPLE of ethical work”, as questions to employees in any organization to search the “Work Ethicality”.

1. MISSION of the firm

FUNDAMENTAL VALUES OF THE FIRM

1.3 “Building up a more decent life through united (solidarity) labour of concretely

enhancing every individual’s dignity and creativity, as well as his capacity to respond to his

personal vocation” – is the principle being implemented by our crew (CA 29)

1.6b “The purpose of a business firm is not simply to make a profit, but is to be found in its

very existence as a community of persons who in various ways are endeavouring to satisfy

their basic needs”. (CA 35)

1.6e My “right to freedom as well as the duty of making responsible use of freedom” to use it

in a responsible way” (CA 32)

1.6f Determining (on the effects of the firm) is “the role of a disciplined and creative human

work” of the CREW of the company and, “as an essential part of that work, initiative and

entrepreneurial ability becomes increasingly evident and decisive” (CA 32)

4. PERSONAL POLICY

4.2 Management of the firm „ has started development processes aiming at better utilization

not of the material resources but of „the human resources”. (CA 33)

4.16 I recognize that “constant transformations of the methods of production and the

consumptions devalue certain acquired skills and professional expertise, and thus requires a

continual effort of re-training and updating, forcing to continuous attainment of new

qualification and adoption to the change” (CA 33)

4.28b The company’s management is attaching significance to such “important virtues” like:

„industriousness” (CA 32)

4.34 Man, in our company, is recognized as „decisive factor, his knowledge, especially his

scientific knowledge, capacity for interrelated and compact organization, as well as his

ability to perceive the needs of others and to satisfy them”. (CA 32)