Re-Imagining the Morality of Management: A Modern Virtue Ethics Approach
- 1 October 2008
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Business Ethics Quarterly
- Vol. 18 (4), 483-511
- https://doi.org/10.5840/beq200818435
Abstract
In this paper the problematic nature of the morality of management, in particular related to business organisations operating under Anglo-American capitalism, is explored. MacIntyre’s critique of managers in After Virtue (1985) serves as the starting point but this critique is itself subjected to analysis leading to a more balanced and contemporary view of the morality of management than MacIntyre provides. Paradoxically perhaps, MacIntyre’s own virtues-goods-practice-institution schema is shown to provide a way of re-imagining business organisations and management and thereby holds out the possibility of resolving the issue of the morality of management within such organisations. Implications for management practice are drawn out.Keywords
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