The Character of the Manager: From Office Executive to Wise Steward

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-9
The Dreams of Future Managers....Pages 10-21
Moral Philosophy and the Manager....Pages 22-32
MacIntyre, Our Gadfly....Pages 33-42
The Manager as Office Executive: Emotivism Embodied in a Character....Pages 43-58
Strengths and Weaknesses of Treating the Manager as a Stock Character....Pages 59-71
Plot and Perspective: Character Traits and Their Cultivation....Pages 72-84
The Setting: Institutional Social Structures, Success, and Excellence....Pages 85-98
MacIntyre against the Manager....Pages 99-110
The Virtuous Manager, the Art of Character, and Business Humanities....Pages 111-123
Character Transformation in the Friendship of Readers and Writers....Pages 124-134
Transforming the Character of the Moral Philosopher....Pages 135-145
Transforming Character: The Manager and the Aesthete....Pages 146-157
Transforming the Character of the Rhetorician....Pages 158-170
The Manager as Wise Steward: Activities, Practice, and Virtue....Pages 171-183
Management Is a Domain-Relative Practice....Pages 184-195
The Dispositions of the Wise Steward and the Parts of Practical Wisdom....Pages 196-210
Conclusion....Pages 211-216
Back Matter....Pages 217-269