Virtue Ethics as a Resource in Business
- 1 April 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Business Ethics Quarterly
- Vol. 22 (2), 273-291
- https://doi.org/10.5840/beq201222220
Abstract
This article provides an account of virtues as praiseworthy traits of character with a far-reaching capacity to influence conduct. Virtues supply their possessors both with good reasons that indicate, for diverse contexts, what sort of thing should be done and with motivation to do them. This motivational power of virtue is crucial for the question of what kind of person, or businessperson, one wants to be. The article shows how the contrast between virtue ethics and rule ethics is often drawn too sharply and indicates how virtue theories can incorporate both theoretical and practical uses of rules. More generally, it shows how a virtue orientation affects attitudes in management practices and how an understanding of certain virtues can help in making better decisions, both ethically and in relation to success in business.Keywords
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