Overview
- Each chapter explores the role of virtues in a different organisational type (or industry segment)
- Fresh international perspectives extend MacIntyrean inquiry
- Case studies show relevance of virtue ethics in management
Part of the book series: Issues in Business Ethics (IBET, volume 38)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Can Management Be a Practice?
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Front Matter
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Leadership, Virtue and Vice
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Front Matter
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Leadership, Vice and Virtue
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Case Studies
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Front Matter
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A Concluding Reflection: Narratives of Virtue in Responsible Management
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Can management be a practice?
- Conscious Corporate Growth
- Embedded Moral Agency
- Leadership Development
- Leadership, Vice and Virtue
- Management Virtue
- Management as a Practice
- Moral Agency
- Morality of Management
- Organisational Narcissism
- Responsible Management
- Social Practice
- Sustainable Practice of Hospitality Work
- Utopian Interpretation
- Virtual Vortex
- Virtue in Responsible Management
- YouTube as a Nascent Practice
About this book
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 inbusiness 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
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Heart of the Good Institution
Book Subtitle: Virtue Ethics as a Framework for Responsible Management
Editors: Howard Harris, Gayathri Wijesinghe, Stephen McKenzie
Series Title: Issues in Business Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5473-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5472-0Published: 14 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9973-8Published: 29 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5473-7Published: 14 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0925-6733
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 186
Topics: Ethics, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Human Resource Management