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The Character of the Manager

From Office Executive to Wise Steward

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-137-30405-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK
Erscheinungstermin: 23.07.2013
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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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  • Artikelnummer: 9781137304056
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-137-30405-6
  • Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK
  • Erscheinungstermin: 23.07.2013
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 2013. Auflage 2013
  • Serie: Humanism in Business Series
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 4581 g
  • Seiten: 269
  • Format (B x H x T): 144 x 223 x 25 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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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