The Character of the Manager [electronic resource] : From Office Executive to Wise Steward /
Beabout, G.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- The humanistic management network -- Introduction -- The dreams of future managers -- Moral philosophy and the manager -- Macintyre, our gadfly -- The manager as office executive : emotivism embodied in a character -- Strengths and weaknesses of treating the manager as a stock character -- Plot and perspective : character traits and their cultivation -- The setting : institutional social structures, success, and excellence -- Macintyre against the manager -- The virtuous manager, the art of character, and business humanities -- Character transformation in the friendship of readers and writers -- Transforming the character of the moral philosopher -- Transforming character : the manager and the aesthete -- Transforming the character of the rhetorician -- The manager as wise steward : activities, practice, and virtue -- Management is a domain-relative practice -- The dispositions of the wise steward and the parts of practical wisdom -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
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.
Leadership.
Business ethics.
Management.
Organization.
Planning.
Ethics.
Personnel management.
Business Strategy/Leadership.
Business Ethics.
Management.
Organization.
Ethics.
Human Resource Management.