Digital transformation improves efficiency but risks dehumanization through datafication, opaque algorithmic decisions, and diluted accountability. This qualitative–conceptual article synthesizes humanistic management, ethical leadership, and digital ethics into a Humanistic Digital Management Model (HDMM). Ethical leadership functions as a value-internalization and accountability mechanism; digital ethics provides design and oversight principles (privacy, transparency, non-discrimination, security); and organizational culture moderates the translation of values/principles into practice. Grounded in a philosophy-of-science triad (ontology, epistemology, axiology), the paper advances four propositions, operational guidance, and managerial implications—algorithmic impact assessment, digital codes of ethics, and culture-building routines that safeguard human dignity. We outline measurement directions and empirical designs to validate HDMM and support human-centered organizing.
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