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This book’s argument proceeds in four parts: i) we need a better way to conceive of the manager and a better way to understand the role of moral philosophy in contributing to our notion of the character of the manager (Chapters 1–2); ii) Alasdair MacIntyre’s work problematizes the manager as a character while providing a deeper diagnosis of contemporary inadequacies (Chapters 3–8); iii) a humanistic approach is needed, one that retrieves philosophy’s task of offering character transforming arguments (Chapters 9–13); iv) the manager as wise steward is proposed as the term of such a process, including the character itself, the virtues and powers central to this character, the social context in local and global perspective, and suggestions for institutionalizing this ideal (Chapters 14–16).
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Beabout, G.R. (2013). Introduction. In: The Character of the Manager. Humanism in Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137304063_1
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