MacIntyre and Business Ethics

Sinnicks, Matthew

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_1259-1

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“…Instead, inquiry ought to include identifying practices, articulating the internal goods associated with these practice (that are both individual and common), debating and extending the shared standards of excellence associated with the practice, developing and facilitating the attainment of virtues that enable one to achieve the internal goods and creating a greater awareness of the means by which institutions (and an excessive focus on the external goods of wealth, status and power) may corrupt the practice. While there has been substantial work on MacIntyrean business ethics (Akgün et al, 2022;Sinnicks, 2021), including relating MacIntyrean thought to professions (Moore, 2018), there remains considerable…”

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Meaningful work and unethical work: The crisis in Australian financial advice

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2023

Business Ethics Env & Resp

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Recurrent scandals in business ethics demonstrate that work is, on occasion, unambiguously unethical. It is not clear, however, exactly how the concept of ‘meaningful work’ can be applied to such work, and whether, for example, work can be both unethical and meaningful. This article explores three different conceptualisations of meaningful work: where meaningful work is considered to be subjective, primarily subjective but with objective constraints or primarily objective (adopting Alasdair MacIntyre's neo‐Aristotelian framework). These competing conceptualisations are examined in relation to the ethical failures in the Australian financial advice industry. From 2009, a range of parliamentary inquiries, including a Royal Commission, documented significant ethical failures at both individual and institutional levels across the industry, which caused substantial hardship to tens of thousands of clients. Among the subsequent reforms was a drive towards the professionalisation of financial advice through enhanced educational standards, a code of ethics and the development of a professional identity. This case demonstrates the different ways in which the conceptualisations of meaningful work can be applied. However, Alasdair MacIntyre's scheme of practices, institutions, internal and external goods is presented as a preferred conceptualisation of the case, accommodating considerations of both ethics and meaningful work and contributing towards a theory of good work in general.

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confidence: 99%