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Reframing Organizations , 3 rd ed. Chapter 19. Reframing Ethics and Spirit. Reframing Ethics and Spirit. Soul and Spirit in Organizations The Factory: Excellence and Authorship The Family: Caring and Love The Jungle: Justice and Power The Temple: Faith and Significance.
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Chapter 19 Reframing Ethics and Spirit
Reframing Ethics and Spirit • Soul and Spirit in Organizations • The Factory: Excellence and Authorship • The Family: Caring and Love • The Jungle: Justice and Power • The Temple: Faith and Significance
Soul and Spirit in Organizations • Organizational soul: bedrock sense of identity, clarity about core ideology and values • Core ideology emphasizing “more than profits” key to highly successful firms (Collins and Porras, 1994) • Enron • Rapid shift from pipelines to deal-making produced enormous growth -- for a while • In the process, Enron lost a sense of core identity and values (“lots of smart people, but no wise people”) • Merck • Core purpose: not profit but “preserve and improve human life” • Developed and gave away river blindness drug
Conclusion • Organizational ethics ultimately need to be rooted in soul • Modern organizations suffer a crisis of meaning and moral authority • Leaders need to hold and model values like excellence, caring, justice, faith