Book(electronic)2008

The virtuous organization: insights from some of the world's leading management thinkers

Manz, Charles C.; World Scientific (Firm)

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This book focuses on a new and emerging, yet as old as recorded history, organizational concern: virtue. Virtue has recently become a topic of serious examination among organizational researchers and progressive companies who are exploring their role in creating new, more holistic, healthy, and humane work environments. With interdisciplinary insights by many of the world's leading management thinkers, the book includes conceptual treatments, empirical research, and actual cases concerning virtuous behavior and leadership under conditions of crises, and ordinary and exemplary times. Until recently, scholarly research paid scant attention to virtue, especially in organizations. The pursuit of virtue, as opposed to the bottom line, remained outside the acceptable domain of practising managers faced with economic pressures and stakeholder demands. Concepts such as efficiency, return on investment (ROI), and competitive advantage were emphasized over more virtuous concerns such as caring, compassion, integrity and wisdom. The Virtuous Organization fills this void by presenting paradigm-shifting insights of leading scholars that have the potential to change the face of management thinking and practice for both this and future generations

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The Virtuous Organization: Insights from Some of the World's Leading Management Thinkers

Manz, Charles C.; Cameron, Kim S; Manz, Karen P

Key Features:Combines perspectives of leading management scholars on a very timely topic (virtues in organizations) that has been largely neglected in the literaturePresents cutting-edge thinking and research in multiple forms - conceptual treatments, empirical articles, cases, essays, and interviews. It serves as an ideal text for courses or training programs on ethical and positive management and leadership. Similarly, it can be used as a valuable reference for academics, trainers, consultants and professional managersTranscends academic disciplinary boundaries for greater insight and synergy of divergent perspectives about virtuous organizing and leadershipHighlights the importance of virtuous behavior and management beyond traditional business values and offers innovative thinking that can potentially infuse organizations with greater integrity and wisdomProvides real-life examples/cases of organizations that have demonstrated practical applications of virtuous management in crises, ordinary and exemplary times.