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1. CRITICAL QUESTION HOW DO WE DEFINE WHO WE ARE?
2. Corporate Roles, Personal Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach to Business EthicsSolomon Trade in home is appropriate
Trade for profit is not
One has to think of oneself as a member of a larger community
Our sense of self as a virtuous person is defined by that larger community
3. Six Dimensions of Virtue COMMUNITY
We are members of a community and our self interest lies in community
When we work we make the organization our community.
EXCELLENCE
Excellence is more than following rules and not doing harm to others. It is constantly raising the bar. It exhibits itself in our thoughts, ideas, feelings, action and how we construct our community.
4. ROLE IDENTITY
Our ethical standard is partially defined by the role we play in society.
INTEGRITY
Provides an anchor against disintegration. It integrates our roles and responsibilities and the virtues that define them. MORAL COURAGE
JUDGEMENT
Good judgement is the product of upbringing and education. It requires balancing concerns and principles as well as justice and fairness.
5. TOUGHNESS
It is the willingness to do what is necessary to keep organization viable. This is done knowing it will cause pain and suffering. It is done with compassion.
HOLISM
The process of separation of work, family and community causes alienation. This separation causes narrowness of focus in business activity, education and organizational.
6. Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial WorkJackall PROTESTANT WORK ETHIC
Control of human impulses by work. The greater the work the greater the accumulation of wealth. Shifted to mean rugged individualism to financial success
7. BUREAUCRACY Started as a small collection of clerks. Grew into major portion of most organizations.
Administrative hierarchies
Standardized work procedures
Regularized time tables
Uniform policies
Centralized control
8. Bureaucracy and Morality Pyramid of Politics
Power Centralized, allocated, decentralized
Never achieve higher status than boss
Who Gets Credit
Senior Management escapes responsibility by
Avoiding decisions
Delegate
Involve large groups of people
9. PLEASE THE KING
CEO throw back to medieval times
ORGANIZATIONS ARE UNSTABLE
Mergers, sales, low performance create power changes
SUCCESS AND FAILURE
Socially defined
Luck is necessary but capricious
10. TIPS FOR FUTURE APPEARANCE AND DRESS
SELF CONTROL
Be human but not emotional
STYLE
Fast, Decisive, Knowledgeable, Reflect Organizations Standards
PATRON POWER
Godfathers, Mentors necessary
KNOW HOW TO PLAY THE GAME
11. DOWNSIDE TO SYSTEM ORGANIZATIONS CAN REMOVE THE PERSON AND REPLACE THEM WITH A REPRESENTATION OF A PERSON (EMPTY SUIT)