The character of the manager
Subtitle: from office executive to wise steward
By: Gregory R. Beabout, Saint Louis University, USA
Series: Humanism in business series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781137304056
Subjects: Leadership; Executives; Interpersonal communication
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: The humanistic management network; title: Introduction; title: The dreams of future managers; title: Moral philosophy and the manager; title: Macintyre, our gadfly; title: The manager as office executive : emotivism embodied in a character; title: Strengths and weaknesses of treating the manager as a stock character; title: Plot and perspective : character traits and their cultivation; title: The setting : institutional social structures, success, and excellence; title: Macintyre against the manager; title: The virtuous manager, the art of character, and business humanities; title: Character transformation in the friendship of readers and writers; title: Transforming the character of the moral philosopher; title: Transforming character : the manager and the aesthete; title: Transforming the character of the rhetorician; title: The manager as wise steward : activities, practice, and virtue; title: Management is a domain-relative practice; title: The dispositions of the wise steward and the parts of practical wisdom; title: Conclusion; title: Bibliography.