Shadow of Virtue: On a Painful if not Principled Compromise Inherent in Business Ethics

Jensen, Kipton E.

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“…Virtue theory in organizations draws from different bodies of literature that share an emphasis on the importance of the practice of virtues and the relevance of virtuous conduct for stakeholder engagement and managerial decision making. Among them, virtue ethics remains an invaluable resource for theorizing virtue in business contexts (Bertland, 2009;Bull and Adam, 2011;Jensen, 2009;Mackey, 2014;Marchese et al, 2002;Moore, 2005a, b;Solomon, 2003Solomon, , 2008. Virtue is related to, yet distinct from character strengths: it primarily refers to a set of singular attributes that are indicative of moral excellence ( Jeong and Han, 2013;Richardson, 2012;Sisti and Baum-Baicker, 2012).…”

Section: Virtue Theory and Organizations: A Diversity Of Research Streams And Domainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtue theory and organizational behavior: an integrative framework

Gotsis

Grimani

2015

Journal of Management Development

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a functional framework encapsulating a wide range of contributions to the ongoing debate on virtue as a critical dimension of contemporary organizations. In so doing, the authors elaborate and develop an encompassing framework that is in a position to capture the diversity of research in this very field. Design/methodology/approach – Extant literature on virtue in organizational settings is properly categorized through a taxonomy articulated around the potential foci, as well as loci of virtuous behavior. Virtuousness denotes an ethical attribute of managers, leaders or employees and as such, it may be situated at the micro-individual, meso-organizational or macro-societal level, respectively. Findings – Based on the potential foci and loci of virtuous behavior, the paper differentiates between virtuous managerial, leaders’ and employees’ attitudes on one hand, and virtuous management and leadership development, as well as virtuous employee training on the other. Furthermore, ethically grounded managerial initiatives and leaders’ responsibilities to further the common good are entwined with endeavors to transform employees into virtuous corporate citizens affirming organizational ethicality. Practical implications – By identifying both targeted group and level of analysis, organizations can effectively design and implement interventions promoting virtuousness as a valued end in itself. Originality/value – The paper introduces a framework that can help integrate varying trends on organizational virtuousness that substantially differ in terms of both scope and perspective. In addition, the taxonomy will facilitate both researchers and practitioners to better navigate into the dispersed, and ultimately fragmented streams of literature on the role of virtue in business environments.

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Section: Virtue Theory and Organizations: A Diversity Of Research Streams And Domainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtue theory and organizational behavior: an integrative framework

Gotsis

Grimani

2015

Journal of Management Development

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“…Phronesis (practical wisdom) Figure 3: Virtue's role in persuasion through its role in ethos virtue in the corporate context through its benefits are often exposed to the allegation that it misses the point of ethics in the first place ( Jensen, 2009). …”

Section: Organizational Virtue and Persuasionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shorting Ethos: Exploring the Relationship Between Aristotle’s Ethos and Reputation Management

Shanahan¹,

Seele

2015

Corp Reputation Rev

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While Aristotle's ideas in the area of virtue ethics are considered to be among the most prominent in the field, less attention has been given to one of his most crucial and significant texts, On Rhetoric, and the role that virtue plays in reputation management. This article explores the role that virtue plays in moral character, or ethos, which is a critical component of persuasion according to Aristotle. It then identifies how persuasion is critical to reputation repair according to current reputation management theory, and demonstrates how Aristotle's theories on virtue and ethos underpin many substantive and procedural recommendations for corporate reputation management. We therefore argue in this paper that being 'short' on ethos can not only lead to an ethical crisis and reputational damage, it can have a material impact on a corporation's ability to be effective in recovering from reputational damage.

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“…are reinterpreted and/or applied in today's businesses in order to explain business behaviour and businesses' implementation of ethics (e.g. L 'Etang, 1992;Welch, 1997;De Colle and Werhane, 2007;Jensen, 2008;Graafland, 2009). Our aim is to investigate the re-articulation of classical and modern ethics in order to examine how ethics are staged in a global context represented by a particular organisation based on relationship-and community-building such as Kiva.org, and how ethics are discussed and played out on Kiva's blogs.…”

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Acts that matter – an analysis of Kiva

Knudsen

Nielsen²

2013

Social Responsibility Journal

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2013),"A comparative picture of corporate social responsibility approaches by leading companies in the United Kingdom and Brazil", Social Responsibility Journal, Vol. 9 Iss 4 pp. 571-588 http://dx.If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/ authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The goal of this paper is to provide insight into how global social responsibility is performed through economic, mental and even physical investment and engagement by consumers and organisations.Design/methodology/approach -An illustrative analysis from the corporate website and blogs of an ethical organisation is undertaken. The analytical approach is communicative and inspired by discourse and legitimation studies and more particularly based on the framework of legitimation in discourse and communication developed by Theo van Leeuwen. Findings -The paper claims that new forms of value creation and a new relational logic of ethics -a so-called ''logic of matter'' -are emerging. From the three types of relational logic of matter ethics -an ethics of care, an ethics of reversibility and an ethics of activism -the ethics of activism plays the most important role in our material. Research limitations/implications -The analytical examples presented in this paper demonstrate how the new relational ethics seem to transcend the dichotomy of self-interest and the interests of the other. Practical implications -The paper provides insights into understanding how new forms of relational and reversible relationships are constructed. Originality/value -To the authors' knowledge, similar studies on the emergence of new relational studies in light of the new economy have not previously been undertaken.

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Shadow of Virtue: On a Painful if not Principled Compromise Inherent in Business Ethics

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

Virtue theory and organizational behavior: an integrative framework

Virtue theory and organizational behavior: an integrative framework

Shorting Ethos: Exploring the Relationship Between Aristotle’s Ethos and Reputation Management

Acts that matter – an analysis of Kiva

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