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1. Introduction
2. What am I not going to talk about
3. What I am going to talk about
4. Contents
5. But first, where am I coming from?
6. What's the problem?
7. Aspects in managing
8. Is it really as bad as Maclntyre paints it?
9. Values versus Virtues
10. Virtues and Vices
11. Alsdair Maclntyre's virtue ethics
12. Examples of practices
13. Internal goods
14. Extended definition of virtue
15. Institutions
16. External goods
17. A diagram for practice-institution combination
18. Additional forms of practices
19. The full conceptual framework
20. Virtuous business organisations
21. Preconditions for virtuous organisations
22. Whose job is it?
23. A diagram of core and institutional practices
24. Virtuous managers
25. But what do they do?
26. What sort of person do managers need to be?
27. Does that provide a solution?
28. Quotes from Maclntyre
29. But maybe there is hope
30. References

Topics Covered

• How we might re-imagine management and the morality of management
• The moral problem of managers in capitalist business organisations
• A business organisation as a combination of a practice and an institution
• Virtuous business organisations and virtuous managers
• The virtues of a virtuous manager
• Practical applications

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Series:

• Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Categories:

• Management, Leadership & Organisation

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Publication History

• Published on January 31, 2011