Organizational Ethics and the Good Life (The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics)

Hartman, Edwin M.

ISBN 10: 0195100778 / ISBN 13: 9780195100778

Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1996

About this Item

Paperback in very good condition. Cover edges and corners are slightly bumped and rubbed, with creases to the lower corners. Page block is lightly blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Organizational Ethics and the Good Life (The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195100778
• ISBN 13: 9780195100778
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Business/Management

About this title

Synopsis

In this book, Edwin Hartman argues that the real world of experience, rather than abstract theory, is the source of principles for business ethics. Hartman explains how ethical principles derive from what employees learn in good organizations and argues that an ethically good company is one that creates the good life for those who work in it. An ethical organization has a good corporate culture, which not only serves the interests of the participants but helps determine what those interests are, and sees to it that they are compatible with both autonomy and good corporate citizenship. In this way the individual develops a conception of the good life what is inappropriate to the moral person. The influences on Hartmans thought include the Aristotelian tradition of refined common sense, contemporary pragmatism, recent work concerning collective action problems, and social contract theory.

About the Author

Edwin Hartman is Professor in the Faculty of Management and the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University.