ISBN:
0195096789
,
0195100778
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 214 S.
Series Statement:
The Ruffin series in business ethics
DDC:
302.3/5
Keywords:
Bedrijfsethiek
;
Culture d'entreprise
;
Morale
;
Morale des affaires
;
Organisatiecultuur
;
Business ethics
;
Corporate culture
;
Ethics
;
Unternehmensethik
;
Unternehmensethik
Abstract:
In Organizational Ethics and the Good Life, Edwin Hartman contends that, as ethics is about the good community, a great part of business ethics is about the good organization. He argues that a large and complex organization has the characteristic of the "commons" studied by game theorists, and that it is the task of management to preserve the commons in the long-term interests of all its members, principally by creating an appropriate corporate culture. A good corporate culture not only serves the interests of the participants but makes the organization a place in which they can develop interests that are compatible with both autonomy and good corporate citizenship: that is, they can develop a sense of the good life that is appropriate to the moral person
Abstract:
Hartman opposes the standard view that the study of organizational ethics is a matter of considering how certain foundational ethical principles apply in organizational settings; instead, he argues, business ethicists should consider how free and rational people arrive at a consensus on practical ethical principles in a morally good organization that leaves room for moral progress. And what makes an organization morally good? In discussing justice, loyalty, and other features of a morally good organization, Hartman draws largely on the work of Rawls and Hirschman. In describing the good life as one in which well-being and morality overlap, Hartman proposes a new version of an idea as old as Aristotle, who taught that human beings are rational but also irreducibly communal creatures
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0603/95005495-d.html
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0603/95005495-t.html
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