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Virtues and Principles in Managing People in the Organization

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Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management

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Abstract

Virtues and principles proposed by Catholic Social Teaching (CST) are particularly significant in managing people in the organization. In this chapter, we review how these virtues and principles apply in six groups of crucial human resources management practices: (1) job design, (2) staffing and recruitment, (3) training and development, (4) benefits and compensation, (5) performance appraisal and promotion, and (6) layoff, downsizing and outplacement. We discuss here how truthfulness, justice, gratuitousness, and other virtues play a great role in conducting these practices ethically and how the principles of respect for human dignity, focus on the common good, solidarity, subsidiarity and participation are relevant too. We also present some insights of CST which seem especially relevant managing people in the organization.

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  1. INALDE Business School, Universidad de La Sabana, Campus del Puente del Común, Km. 7, Autopista Norte de Bogotá, Chía, Cundinamarca, Colombia

    Alejandro Moreno-Salamanca

  2. IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Av Pearson, 21, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Domènec Melé

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  1. School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

    Alejo José G. Sison

  2. Department of Philosophy, Saint Louis University , St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Gregory R. Beabout

  3. School of Economics and Business Administration, Business Department, University of Navarra, Pamploma, Spain

    Ignacio Ferrero

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Moreno-Salamanca, A., Melé, D. (2017). Virtues and Principles in Managing People in the Organization. In: Sison, A., Beabout, G., Ferrero, I. (eds) Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management. International Handbooks in Business Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6510-8_13

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