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Organizational ethics and the good life
- Title
- Organizational ethics and the good life / Edwin Hartman.
- Author
- Hartman, Edwin, 1941-
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 214 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In Organizational Ethics and the Good Life, Edwin Hartman contends that, as ethics is about the good community, a great part of business ethics is about the good organization. He argues that a large and complex organization has the characteristic of the "commons" studied by game theorists, and that it is the task of management to preserve the commons in the long-term interests of all its members, principally by creating an appropriate corporate culture. A good corporate culture not only serves the interests of the participants but makes the organization a place in which they can develop interests that are compatible with both autonomy and good corporate citizenship: that is, they can develop a sense of the good life that is appropriate to the moral person.
- Hartman opposes the standard view that the study of organizational ethics is a matter of considering how certain foundational ethical principles apply in organizational settings; instead, he argues, business ethicists should consider how free and rational people arrive at a consensus on practical ethical principles in a morally good organization that leaves room for moral progress. And what makes an organization morally good? In discussing justice, loyalty, and other features of a morally good organization, Hartman draws largely on the work of Rawls and Hirschman. In describing the good life as one in which well-being and morality overlap, Hartman proposes a new version of an idea as old as Aristotle, who taught that human beings are rational but also irreducibly communal creatures.
- Series Statement
- The Ruffin series in business ethics
- Uniform Title
- Ruffin series in business ethics.
- Subject
- Business ethics
- Corporate culture
- Ethics
- Organizational Culture
- Ethics
- ethics (philosophy)
- Business ethics
- Corporate culture
- Unternehmensethik
- Bedrijfsethiek
- Organisatiecultuur
- business
- ethics
- social responsibility
- philosophy
- social theory
- community
- individual
- community relations
- value system
- organization development
- motivation
- profitability
- cultural factor
- management technique
- affaires
- éthique
- responsabilité sociale
- philosophie
- théorie sociale
- communauté
- individu
- relations au sein de la communauté
- système de valeurs
- développement de l'organisation
- rentabilité
- facteur culturel
- technique de gestion
- negocios
- ética
- responsabilidad social
- filosofía
- teoría social
- comunidad
- individuo
- relación comunitaria
- sistema de valores
- desarrollo de la organización
- rentabilidad
- factor cultural
- técnica administrativa
- USA
- Etats-Unis
- Estados Unidos
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- bibliography.
- bibliographie.
- bibliografía.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-196) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / R. Edward Freeman -- 1. What Morality is About -- 2. Utilitarianism and its Difficulties -- 3. Morality and Communities: Collective Action -- 4. Business, Ethics, and Business Ethics -- 5. Morality and Autonomy -- 6. Problems of Corporate Culture -- 7. The Good Community and the Good Organization.
- ISBN
- 0195100778
- 9780195100778
- 0195096789
- 9780195096781
- LCCN
- 95005495
- OCLC
- ocm31971605
- 31971605
- SCSB-2077605
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library