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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hartman, Edwin, 1941- Organizational ethics and the good life. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996 (OCoLC)680559949 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Edwin Hartman |
| ISBN: | 0195100778 9780195100778 0195096789 9780195096781 |
| OCLC Number: | 31971605 |
| Description: | xii, 214 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Ruffin series in business ethics. |
| Responsibility: | Edwin Hartman. |
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Abstract:
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.
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