The Character of the Manager
From Office Executive to Wise Steward
Published on 23. July 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 269 pages
978-1-349-45436-5 (ISBN)
Description
Explores Alasdair MacIntyre's criticisms of the manager and retrieves an interdisciplinary approach to character transforming arguments. The manager as wise steward is proposed as a model for virtuous management.
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Series
Edition
2013 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XII, 269 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
361 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-45436-5 (9781349454365)
DOI
10.1057/9781137304063
Schweitzer Classification
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08/2013
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Person
Gregory R. Beabout is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, USA. He teaches and does research in virtue ethics, the history of philosophy, and personalism. His books, as author or co-author, include
Freedom and Its Misuses
,
Beyond Self-Interest
, and
Applied Professional Ethics
.
Content
Introduction 1. The Dreams of Future Managers 2. Moral Philosophy and the Manager 3. MacIntyre, Our Gadfly 4. The Manager as Office Executive: Emotivism Embodied in a Character 5. Strengths and Weaknesses of Treating the Manager as a Stock Character 6. Plot and Perspective: Character Traits and their Cultivation 7. The Setting: Institutional Social Structures, Success, and Excellence 8. MacIntyre Against the Manager 9. The Virtuous Manager, the Art of Character, and Business Humanities 10. Character Transformation in the Friendship of Readers and Writers 11. Transforming the Character of the Moral Philosopher 12. Transforming Character: The Manager and the Aesthete 13. Transforming the Character of the Rhetorician 14. The Manager as Wise Steward: Activities, Practice, and Virtue 15. Management is a Domain-Relative Practice 16. The Dispositions of the Wise Steward and the Parts of Practical Wisdom Conclusion