Critical Management Ethics

Written in the European tradition of Kant's philosophical trilogy on critique and Hegel's concept of ethical life it outlines the great traditions in ethical philosophy: Aristotelian virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, and utilitarianism. It presents modern ethics from Nietzsche, Adorno, and Habermas to Kohlberg's stages of moral development.

Autorentext
THOMAS KLIKAUER, subsequent to MAs from USA and Germany and a PhD (Warwick University, UK) teaches at University of Western Sydney, Australia. Research into car and shipping industry (25 articles) led to two books on Communication, and Management at Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and Management Communication: Communicative Ethics and Action (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) as well as the current interest in ethics at work and management.

Inhalt
Introducing Critical Management Ethics Critical Virtue Ethics: from Aristotle to Adorno Modern Virtue Ethics A Utilitarian Critique on Management Ethics The Utilitarian Happiness Principle The Ethics of Pleasure, Swine and Marmalade The Ethics of Friendship and Aesthetic Enjoyment A Kantian Critique on Management Ethics A Textbook-Case, Categorical Imperatives, and Means and Ends Hegel's Sittlichkeit and Management Ethics Freedom, the Common Will and Sittlichkeit Hegel's Slave-Morality and Management Ethics To Have a Purpose and To Serve a Purpose Management Ethics as Camera Obscura Kohlberg's Moral Manager I: from Impulsiveness to Punishment Kohlberg's Moral Manager II: from Rewards to Universalism Positive Management Ethics The Managerial Ethics of Intuitionism and Subjectivism The Managerial Ethics of Moral Egoism The Managerial Ethics of Relativism and Moral Solitude The Managerial Ethics of Nihilism The Managerial Ethics of Thomas Hobbes The Managerial Ethics of Friedrich Nietzsche Conclusion: The Practical Ethics of Sittlichkeit and Communicative Ethics Ten Rules for Ethics Councils