Format:
1 online resource (290 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107030756
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9781107274020
Series Statement:
Business, Value Creation, and Society Series
Content:
Edwin M. Hartman introduces graduate students and academic researchers to the value of applying Aristotle's virtue approach to business. He demonstrates how the virtue approach can deepen our understanding of business ethics, and how it can contribute to contemporary discussions of character, rationality, corporate culture, ethics education and global ethics
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Aristotle, virtue ethics, and this book -- An overview of Aristotles philosophy -- The development of Aristotles philosophy -- The substance that has a soul -- Aristotle and Newton: science and persons -- The place of persons -- Positivism: facts and evidence -- Where we are today -- Virtue vs. principles -- Teleology and the good life -- Good and bad desires -- Freedom and virtue -- Autonomy -- Cartesian epistemology -- The status of pleasure -- Aristotle on business -- Efficiency vs. virtue -- Teaching business ethics -- Multinational concerns -- A summary of the argument -- 1 Virtues and principles -- Principles and their problems -- A comparison with management -- The current state of play -- What a virtue is -- The mean and context -- Principles: the example of generosity -- Sociability, rationality, and emotions: an introductory word -- Sociability -- Rationality -- Emotions -- Virtues as causes -- Business ethics today -- Management scholars and virtue -- Ethics and effectiveness -- Business ethics and utilitarianism -- Ethics as a strategy -- Choosing a consultant: a true story -- Ethical decisions and business decisions -- Practical wisdom36 -- Praxis and poiesis -- An example of practical wisdom -- Character -- Integrity -- Tensions among virtues -- Antiutilitarian virtues -- It is about you -- 2 Virtues and decisions -- How should I decide what to do? -- Advantages of virtues over mere principles -- Practical reasoning and weakness of will -- Framing -- Perceiving correctly -- Sensemaking -- Virtuous strategy -- Strategic success and the environment -- Corporate culture, ethical vocabulary, and perception -- Being virtuous and doing the right thing -- Culture as a threat to virtue -- The status of character -- The very existence of character -- Questionable reasons
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Inconsistencies -- Questioning rationality and virtue -- Evidence for degrees of strength of character -- Practical implications -- 3 Virtues, good reasons, and the good life -- Ethics and the good life -- Utilitarianism and the good life -- Is ethics good for you? -- Homo economicus and interests -- Agency theory -- Desires -- Deciding on ones interests -- Rationality and interests -- Community -- Social capital -- Intrinsic and instrumental goods -- Naturalism and the good life -- Limits on the good life -- Well-being and sociability -- Varieties of the good life -- Freedom to choose and the good life -- Liberalism -- The need for character in any case -- Large questions -- 4 Developing character -- How we begin to acquire character -- Habituation -- Crary and Aristotle -- Skills and habits -- Free will -- The issue of causal determinism -- Rational reflection -- Getting beyond habit -- What rationality adds -- What is natural is not easy -- What managers can do -- Dialectic -- An example of dialectic -- Introducing facts -- The limits of dialectic -- Organizing dialectic -- Expert intuition: Deborah again -- Facts and dialectic in Aristotle -- Ethical progress -- Endless education -- 5 Virtues in and among organizations -- MacIntyre -- Practices and institutions -- Leisure -- Some objections and amendments -- Good employees and good organizations -- Moore: characteristics of a good organization -- Organizational citizenship behaviors -- A problem about loyalty -- Fake loyalty -- Leadership -- A third sort of leadership -- Moderate optimism -- Virtues and stakeholder relations -- A kind of friendship -- The real pro -- An example of corporate virtue and vice -- 6 Teaching virtue in business school -- Teaching ethics -- Focusing on character -- Controversy -- Corrupting the youth -- The dubious contributions of Socrates -- Socrates' errors
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The students' well-being -- Milgram as cautionary -- Ethical vocabulary and framing -- Mothers knee and dialectic -- Ethics and strategy: the value of case studies7 -- What shall I be? -- Fairly hopeful conclusion: choosing a job and choosing a character -- Other things to think about -- 7 Ethical conflict and the global future -- Traditional morality -- Looking for reconciliation -- Capitalist ethics -- Justice for women -- Bribery -- Property -- Problems -- Differences of degree -- Aristotles ethics as a mean -- Dialectic -- Intercultural dialectic23 -- Limits of dialectic -- Dialectic and human development -- Lessons of business ethics -- The managers own values -- Purity again -- Combining rationality and sociability -- Mediating institutions and religious diversity -- The mediating institution as the school for virtue -- Diversity -- Getting to respectful dialectic -- Beyond the organization -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Hartman, Edwin M. Virtue in Business New York : Cambridge University Press,c2013 ISBN 9781107030756
Language:
English
Keywords:
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