A philosophical ethical perspective of management that focuses on the three great traditions in ethical philosophy - virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, and utilitarianism. It presents Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Aquinas, Bentham, Mill, Sidgwick, Moore, Hume, Hobbes, Intuitionism, Subjectivism, Moral Egoism, Relativism, Nihilism and modern ethics from Nietzsche, Singer's Animal Rights and Global Ethics, Adorno's virtue ethics, Habermas' communicative ethics, and Kohlberg's stages of moral development.
The book combines Hegel's Sittlichkeit with Habermas' Communicative Ethics to develop a set of ethical principles for management and concludes with a practical proposal to introduce Company Ethics Councils based on ten rules that reflect Hegelian ethics and Habermas' communicative ethics
Introducing Critical Management Ethics
Critical Virtue Ethics: from Aristotle to Adorno
Modern Virtue Ethics
A Utilitarian Critique on Management Ethics
The Utilitarian Happiness Principle
The Ethics of Pleasure, Swine and Marmalade
The Ethics of Friendship and Aesthetic Enjoyment
A Kantian Critique on Management Ethics
A Textbook-Case, Categorical Imperatives, and Means and Ends
Hegel's Sittlichkeit and Management Ethics
Freedom, the Common Will and Sittlichkeit
Hegel's Slave-Morality and Management Ethics
To Have a Purpose and To Serve a Purpose
Management Ethics as Camera Obscura
Kohlberg's Moral Manager I: from Impulsiveness to Punishment
Kohlberg's Moral Manager II: from Rewards to Universalism
Positive Management Ethics
The Managerial Ethics of Intuitionism and Subjectivism
The Managerial Ethics of Moral Egoism
The Managerial Ethics of Relativism and Moral Solitude
The Managerial Ethics of Nihilism
The Managerial Ethics of Thomas Hobbes
The Managerial Ethics of Friedrich Nietzsche
Conclusion: The Practical Ethics of Sittlichkeit and Communicative Ethics
Ten Rules for Ethics Councils