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The Heart of the Good Institution Virtue Ethics as a Framework for Responsible Management /

This book addresses the question: how can institutions develop and maintain a good purpose? And how can managers contribute to this endeavour? Twelve contributions explore this question, using MacIntyrean inquiry as a basis for exploring four main themes: Can management be considered a practice in t...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Harris, Howard. (Editor), Wijesinghe, Gayathri. (Editor), McKenzie, Stephen. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:Issues in Business Ethics, 38
Subjects:
Philosophy (General).
Ethics.
Operations research.
Philosophy.
Operation Research/Decision Theory.
Human Resource Management.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5473-7
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Section 1 intro: Can management be a practice?
  • 1 Re-imagining the morality of management: A modern virtue ethics approach; Geoff Moore
  • 2 Management as a practice; Tony OMalley
  • 3 Judgment, virtue and social practice; Chris Provis
  • 4 Courage as a management virtue; Howard Harris
  • Section 2 Intro�Leadership, Vice and Virtue
  • 5 Virtue ethics in leadership operations: A pathway for leadership development; Erich C. Fein
  • 6 The process of conscious corporate growth: A utopian interpretation or a possible virtuous practice?; Mario Carrassi
  • 7 Organisational narcissism: A case of failed corporate governance?; Patricia Grant and Peter McGhee
  • 8 YouTube as a nascent practice: A MacIntyrean analysis of user-generated content; Helen Rusak and Stephen McKenzie
  • Section 3 Intro�Case Studies
  • 9 Embedded moral agency: A MacIntyrean perspective on the HR professionals dilemma; Tracey Wilcox
  • 10 The contribution of virtue ethics to the pedagogy and Sustainable Practice Of Hospitality Work; Gayathri Wijesinghe
  • 11The problem of the empty circle: Thoughts on a virtue approach to social sustainability; Stephen McKenzie
  • Conclusion: �A Concluding Reflection: Narratives of Virtue in Responsible Management
  • 12 Murdoch, Trollope and Drucker: Virtue ethics as conveyed by stories; Michael Schwartz
  • Contributors.

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