Critical Management Ethics

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 11
1 Introducing Critical Management Ethics......Page 12
2 Critical Virtue Ethics: From Aristotle to Adorno......Page 36
Modern virtue ethics......Page 47
3 A Utilitarian Critique on Management Ethics......Page 58
The utilitarian Happiness Principle......Page 61
The ethics of pleasure, swine and marmalade......Page 64
The ethics of friendship and aesthetic enjoyment......Page 76
4 A Kantian Critique on Management Ethics......Page 79
A textbook-case, categorical imperatives, and means-ends......Page 85
5 Hegel’s Sittlichkeit and Management Ethics......Page 99
Freedom, the common will and Sittlichkeit......Page 107
6 Hegel’s Slave-Morality and Management Ethics......Page 116
To have a purpose and to serve a purpose......Page 131
Management ethics as camera obscura......Page 134
7 Kohlberg’s Moral Manager I: From Impulsiveness to Punishment......Page 137
8 Kohlberg’s Moral Manager II: From Rewards to Universalism......Page 159
9 Positive Management Ethics......Page 181
The managerial ethics of intuitionism and subjectivism......Page 182
The managerial ethics of moral egoism......Page 183
The managerial ethics of relativism and moral solitude......Page 185
The managerial ethics of nihilism......Page 187
The managerial ethics of Thomas Hobbes......Page 191
The managerial ethics of Friedrich Nietzsche......Page 197
10 Conclusion: The Practical Ethics of Sittlichkeit and Communicative Ethics......Page 204
Ten rules for ethics councils......Page 210
Notes......Page 227
Bibliography......Page 265
Index......Page 281