The Character of the Manager

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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3. The Dreams of Future Managers

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4. Moral Philosophy and the Manager

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5. MacIntyre, Our Gadfly

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6. The Manager as Office Executive: Emotivism Embodied in a Character

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7. Strengths and Weaknesses of Treating the Manager as a Stock Character

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8. Plot and Perspective: Character Traits and Their Cultivation

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9. The Setting: Institutional Social Structures, Success, and Excellence

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10. MacIntyre against the Manager

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11. The Virtuous Manager, the Art of Character, and Business Humanities

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12. Character Transformation in the Friendship of Readers and Writers

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13. Transforming the Character of the Moral Philosopher

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14. Transforming Character: The Manager and the Aesthete

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15. Transforming the Character of the Rhetorician

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16. The Manager as Wise Steward: Activities, Practice, and Virtue

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17. Management Is a Domain-Relative Practice

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18. The Dispositions of the Wise Steward and the Parts of Practical Wisdom

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19. Conclusion

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20. Back Matter

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Explores Alasdair MacIntyre's criticisms of the manager and retrieves an interdisciplinary approach to character transforming arguments. The manager as wise steward is proposed as a model for virtuous management.

• business
• Emotivism
• management
• Manager
• moral philosophy
• morality
• philosophy
• rhetoric

• Saint Louis University, USA

  Gregory R. Beabout

Gregory R. Beabout is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, USA. He teaches and does research in virtue ethics, the history of philosophy, and personalism. His books, as author or co-author, include Freedom and Its Misuses, Beyond Self-Interest, and Applied Professional Ethics.

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