Claus Dierksmeier, Professor for Globalization Ethics at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, analyses that after the international financial and debt crisis a paradigm shift from mechanistic to humanistic management theories took place. In this context, we see a turning away from the fictional construct of homo oeconomicus to a more realistic anthropology in economics. This methodological turn brings about both the opportunity and the necessity of re-orienting management theory to the idea of human dignity (this article is published online with Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License).