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Description

1. xii, 214 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

1. 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.
2. 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

1. The Ruffin series in business ethics

Uniform title

1. Ruffin series in business ethics.

Subject

1. Business ethics
2. Corporate culture
3. Ethics
4. Organizational Culture
5. Ethics
6. ethics (philosophy)
7. Business ethics
8. Corporate culture
9. Unternehmensethik
10. Bedrijfsethiek
11. Organisatiecultuur
12. business
13. ethics
14. social responsibility
15. philosophy
16. social theory
17. community
18. individual
19. community relations
20. value system
21. organization development
22. motivation
23. profitability
24. cultural factor
25. management technique
26. affaires
27. éthique
28. responsabilité sociale
29. philosophie
30. théorie sociale
31. communauté
32. individu
33. relations au sein de la communauté
34. système de valeurs
35. développement de l'organisation
36. rentabilité
37. facteur culturel
38. technique de gestion
39. negocios
40. ética
41. responsabilidad social
42. filosofía
43. teoría social
44. comunidad
45. individuo
46. relación comunitaria
47. sistema de valores
48. desarrollo de la organización
49. rentabilidad
50. factor cultural
51. técnica administrativa
52. USA
53. Etats-Unis
54. Estados Unidos

Genre/Form

1. Electronic books.
2. bibliography.
3. bibliographie.
4. bibliografía.

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-196) and index.