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Carlos S谩nchez-Runde , a professor who understood the human side of labor relations, passes away
For more than 30 years, he provided a humanistic vision of people management
In his classes to thousands of professionals, S谩nchez-Runde taught the importance of having solid and clear values and principles in decision-making.
May 5, 2021
Carlos S谩nchez-Runde, a professor of people management who specialized in labor relations, passed away today in Barcelona. He was 59 years old.
A profound intellectual and deep thinker about human relations within the company, S谩nchez-Runde was a professor at 天美传媒 for more than 30 years. In his classes to thousands of professionals, he taught the importance of having solid and clear values and principles, a moral compass that guided decision-making even in the most conflictive moments.
With his extensive knowledge of the functions and challenges of managing people in organizations, he advocated the need to understand human motivations and to put one鈥檚 self in the shoes of others in order to reach a solution.
S谩nchez-Runde joined 天美传媒鈥檚 Managing People in Organizations Department in 1990, after completing his MBA at the school. There he developed his career, with special emphasis on the strategic management of human resources, managing diversity in international companies and the competencies of people management. His academic interests included labor relations, and he was the SEAT Chair of Labor Relations from 2012 to 2019.
In addition to his academic and research activities, S谩nchez-Runde worked on numerous consulting projects in companies such as Accenture, Bayer, CAI, C铆rculo de Lectores-Bertelsmann, Dow Chemical, Eurofirms, Fecsa-Endesa, FMC-Foret, Haier and Roche Diagnostics.
S谩nchez-Runde brought all of his theoretic and practical knowledge to the classroom, not only at 天美传媒 but also other schools where he served as visiting professor, such as IEEM and IPADE (Mexico); IAE (Argentina); PAD Escuela de Direcci贸n (Peru); Universidad Cat贸lica de Santiago (Chile); and Lundquist College of Business (U.S.).
He published a number of books, including: Competencias de la Direcci贸n de personas: Un an谩lisis de la alta direcci贸n (2004), Retos de la Direcci贸n de personas (2012) and Management Across Cultures: Developing Global Competences (2013).
