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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 the MacIntyrean sense? What
is the role of specific virtues in the development of a virtuous
institution? What are management vices and what are the conditions
in which they flourish? And, can we use MacIntyrean ideas to
consider the management of all forms of institutions? The volume is
an international and multidisciplinary collection, with
contributions from well-known writers in the field of management
ethics, and innovative contributions that use MacIntyrean inquiry
as a lens to examine fields such as hospitality, user generated
music content and social sustainability. The papers are unified by
their concern for the achievement of organizational excellence and
integrity through ethical management. Unlike single author texts
this edited volume brings together multiple perspectives on the
topic of virtue ethics in management. In doing so, it explores the
topic both more deeply and more widely than a single author can do.
Because of its breadth, this book has the potential to become a
turn-to research tool for those interested in virtue theory's
relevance to other academic interests such as organizational
behavior (including motivation theory and social psychology),
literature, contemporary social issue criticism, and business
management. "Editors Harris, Wijesinghe, and McKenzie have crafted
a tight, slim, and thematically consistent volume that will be
indispensable to scholars and students with twin interests in
business and virtue ethics. In particular, those working with
MacIntyre's ideas will find the thorough and complimentary
explorations and applications of his ideas to serve, overall, as a
cornerstone for their own work." Brenden E. Kendall (2014), Harris,
H., Wijesinghe, G., & McKenzie, S. (Eds.). (2013). The Heart of
the Good Institution: Virtue Ethics as a Framework for Responsible
Management. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, in Michael
Schwartz , Howard Harris (ed.) Achieving Ethical Excellence
(Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, Volume 12) Emerald
Group Publishing Limited, pp.155 - 161
Ideally suited to researchers, postgraduates and professionals
interested in key issues such as tax avoidance and corporate
privacy, the latest volume of Research in Ethical Issues in
Organizations examines how profit seeking and not for profit
organizations can be conceived and designed to satisfy legitimate
human needs in an ethical and meaningful way. The volume addresses
a range of contemporary issues in applied and professional ethics
and explores the unique role of organizational ethics in creating
and sustaining a pluralistic, free enterprise economy.
Responding to the general confusion in the United States about the
proper role of religion in politics, five distinguished scholars
demonstrate in original essays how our nation's founders carefully
and clearly defined the appropriate relationship between church and
state, and how we can adapt our current political institutions to
reflect the founders' wisdom. Also, includes a collection of the
most important statements by the Founders that address religion's
role in American political life.
Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations (REIO) is a
double-blind, peer-reviewed series that publishes rigorous academic
research into organizational ethics from a wide variety of
disciplinary perspectives. In this volume, Educating for Ethical
Survival, a special section focuses on the challenges of teaching
ethics to practically minded students, aiming to make the task of
teaching applied ethics more tractable and constructive. Further
contributions explore a range of aspects of ethical survival.
Topics covered include: propensity to moral disengagement ability
to survive ethically amid discord finding ethical survival globally
ethical survival of students content of social ethics courses why
reflection is important in personal learning as a global citizen.
Suited for professionals, educators and researchers, this book
poses questions about the nature of ethical survival in a rapidly
changing world and about the role of ethics in organizations.
The influence of the global South is increasing in the conduct and
governance of multinationals, in the growing interest in the
'bottom of the pyramid', in the debates over the environment, trade
and international law. There are questions aplenty. Complexities
and tensions, differing ethical interpretations. The volume
includes works by authors from the global South and contributions
about ethical issues in the global South, including the responses
to famine in East Africa, India and Indonesia, and the
applicability of international guidelines and ethical frameworks in
South Africa. Other contributions examine the roles of beliefs and
philosophies in the establishment of ethical traditions.
Organizations promote all sorts of activities. Indeed it is
difficult to think of any activity today that is not reliant on an
organization. This volume of Research in Ethical Issues in
Organizations contains two kinds of papers. First, papers that
discuss what an organization provides to society, whether it be
fast food, hypermarkets, education, training, supply chains or
hamburgers, and an explanation of the ethical aspects of that
particular contribution. Second, the ethics of the consumer's
response in society to what an organization provides, be that the
buying or boycotting of products, social approval or social
condemnation.
This volume contains a selection of papers from the 21st annual
'Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics'
Conference. It addresses the key theme of Political Leadership,
Professional Ethics, and the Problem of Dirty Hands. 'Dirty hands'
is a somewhat nebulous concept. It may refer to professions whose
objectives are so consequential that some ethical violations are
considered justifiable. In another sense it might suggest
situations where professional obligations might require the
performance of deeds that contradict one's own moral beliefs. The
term is perhaps most synonymous with political leadership and
raises the question: Should leaders ever get their hands dirty? For
applied ethicists, recognizing that sometimes there are compelling
arguments in favor of certain moral violations is a professional
necessity. This volume contains papers on a broad range of issues
including discussions of medical ethics, military ethics, domestic
political matters, and the very nature of 'professions' themselves.
It will be of interest to those interested in politics, as well as
those involved in research or training in ethics and professional
practice.
This volume is a selection of papers from the 20th annual
'Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics'
Conference. Topics covered include athletes as role models, sports
ethics and sports governance, the separation of powers as an
integrity mechanism, and virtues in just war theory.
Alasdair MacIntyre described humans as storytelling animals.
Stories are essential to any organization. They help organizations
define who they are, what they do, and how they do it. Tom Peters
and Robert Waterman, in explaining their well-known search for
excellence in leading organizations, wrote how they "were struck by
the dominant use of story, slogan, and legend as people tried to
explain the characteristics of their own great institutions" and
how those "convey(ed) the organization's shared values, or
culture". Indeed there is the distinct possibility of those
inherited stories, slogans and legends creating ethical
organizations. Fiction incorporates not only literature but movies,
television, poetry and plays. Friedrich Nietzsche who has been
described, perhaps unfairly, as not a philosopher but a writer
described fiction as a lie which enabled us to see the truth. Nina
Rosenstand argued that such fiction can "be used to question moral
rules and to examine morally ambiguous situations". In this issue
we consider how fiction has questioned the moral rules, and
examined such situations, and in doing so how it has contributed to
our understanding of organizational ethics.
The purpose of the books in this series is to explore the central
and unique role of organizational ethics in creating and sustaining
a pluralistic, free enterprise economy. The primary goal of the
research studies published here is to examine how profit seeking
and not for profit organizations can be conceived and designed to
satisfy legitimate human needs in an ethical and meaningful way.
This volume is a selection of papers from the 19th annual
'Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics'
Conference. Topics covered include journalism ethics, organ
donation, as well as an essay drawn from Daniel Wueste's keynote
address on the conditions and implications of trust for the
professions. Other papers include research on the ethical perils of
university researchers, a values based approach to ethical culture,
the ethics of hospitality-tourism practice and pedagogy, and
ethical decision making processes for research in Small and Medium
Enterprises.
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 the MacIntyrean sense? What
is the role of specific virtues in the development of a virtuous
institution? What are management vices and what are the conditions
in which they flourish? And, can we use MacIntyrean ideas to
consider the management of all forms of institutions? The volume is
an international and multidisciplinary collection, with
contributions from well-known writers in the field of management
ethics, and innovative contributions that use MacIntyrean inquiry
as a lens to examine fields such as hospitality, user generated
music content and social sustainability. The papers are unified by
their concern for the achievement of organizational excellence and
integrity through ethical management. Unlike single author texts
this edited volume brings together multiple perspectives on the
topic of virtue ethics in management. In doing so, it explores the
topic both more deeply and more widely than a single author can do.
Because of its breadth, this book has the potential to become a
turn-to research tool for those interested in virtue theory's
relevance to other academic interests such as organizational
behavior (including motivation theory and social psychology),
literature, contemporary social issue criticism, and business
management. "Editors Harris, Wijesinghe, and McKenzie have crafted
a tight, slim, and thematically consistent volume that will be
indispensable to scholars and students with twin interests in
business and virtue ethics. In particular, those working with
MacIntyre's ideas will find the thorough and complimentary
explorations and applications of his ideas to serve, overall, as a
cornerstone for their own work." Brenden E. Kendall (2014), Harris,
H., Wijesinghe, G., & McKenzie, S. (Eds.). (2013). The Heart of
the Good Institution: Virtue Ethics as a Framework for Responsible
Management. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, in Michael
Schwartz , Howard Harris (ed.) Achieving Ethical Excellence
(Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, Volume 12) Emerald
Group Publishing Limited, pp.155 - 161
Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations (REIO) is a
double-blind, peer-reviewed series that publishes rigorous academic
research into organizational ethics from a wide variety of
disciplinary perspectives including, but not limited to, business
management, philosophy, sociology, psychology, religion,
accounting, and marketing. In this volume, War, Peace and
Organizational Ethics, expert contributors draw upon philosophers
such as Aristotle, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Emmanuel Levinas in
order to explore how the ethics of war and peace resonate with
organizational ethics. The topics covered include: the role of
business in the "War on Terror"; the ethics of robot
decision-making in military contexts; the use of force in UN
peacekeeping missions; John Wooden's conception of moral
leadership; the implementation of meaningful change in relation to
well-being in and outside of work; unethical pro-organizational
behaviour; forsaking Aristotle's Mean and pursuing the extreme.
Ideally suited for researchers and professionals, this book poses
questions that go to the very heart of the role organizations play
in greater social conflicts, as well as the role that conflict
plays in shaping organizations.
The role of organizations in society, the international and
multidisciplinary scope of business ethics, and the importance of
narrative were concerns that were raised in early volumes of
Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations (REIO). That these
topics remain of interest is perhaps sobering, and a cause for
reflection in the business ethics community. What has the
discipline of business ethics achieved over the last 20 years?
Where is at in 2019? Where is it headed? Written to celebrate the
founding of the series 20 years ago, the volume tackles the
tendency to see business as something spawned in recent times.
REIO's founders, even in 2001, were contemplating the next phase of
business ethics, and saw it linked to both good corporate practice
and a multidisciplinary heritage stretching back in time. This
volume considers whether scholars, practitioners, and business
professionals have been slow to act, or whether the problems are
intractable. The role of film and narrative in the development of
ethical standards and in business ethics education is addressed.
Individual submissions also consider corporate responsibility,
redemption, and the nature of boundaries in organizations and
personal life. The volume will appeal to academics in the business
ethics field and related disciplines.
This volume includes six varied contributions to the study of
visual ethics in organizations. The implications of our visual
world for organizational life and personal behaviour have received
scant research attention. This volume sets out to address that lack
of research. It includes contributions on empirical studies, film,
personal portraits, social research using the photovoice method,
bureaucracy and critical theory. Contributors show how the
application of disciplines developed for the study of films can
help us to understand how organizations are perceived, and how
visual images can be used in empirical research about
organizations, ethics and organizational citizenship behaviour.
Some say philosophy has abandoned art, some that humans lack moral
vision. A number of contributors show how a careful and informed
study of art can enhance our understanding of organizational life.
This volume seeks to put the visual back into ethics and
organizations.
The late Patrick Primeaux, a past editor of this series, was an
outstanding teacher of business ethics and a longtime chair of the
Theology Department at St John's University in New York City.
Patrick, through his teachings, research articles and books, had a
profound influence on how many contemporary business ethicists both
teach and think about business ethics. Some contributions in this
volume are from his colleagues and reflect his influence as both a
business ethics teacher and as a scholar. Others are the result of
a conference held in June, 2011 at the University of Tasmania by
the Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics.
Those contributions too reflect Patrick's influence and also argue
themes which Patrick would have fully endorsed.
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