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Organizational ethics and the good life

Author: Edwin Hartman
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Series: Ruffin series in business ethics.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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
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Hartman, Edwin, 1941-
Organizational ethics and the good life.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
(OCoLC)680559949
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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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.

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