The character of the manager : from office executive to wise steward /
Beabout, Gregory R.,1960-
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) 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.
Leadership.
Executives.
Interpersonal communication.