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Brewer, Kathryn Balstad

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“…While some scholars have argued that particular jobs are practices, such as teaching (Dunne 2003), nursing (Sellman 2000), and journalism (Borden 2007), others have sought to apply the concept to business ethics more generally. A significant body of literature on MacIntyre's notion of a practice has been concerned to show that either management (Brewer 1997, Warren 1996 or business (Moore 2002) are the kinds of rich, intrinsically rewarding, virtue-inculcating activities deserving of the title 'practice.' Such scholars see in MacIntyre's work the potential for a deeper and richer understanding of contemporary work and of business ethics than is available elsewhere, despite MacIntyre's own pessimism about such matters.…”

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Practices, Governance, and Politics: Applying MacIntyre’s Ethics to Business

Sinnicks

2014

Bus. Ethics Q.

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This paper argues that attempts to apply Alasdair MacIntyre's positive moral theory to business ethics are problematic, due to the cognitive closure of MacIntyre's concept of a practice. I begin by outlining the notion of a practice, before turning to Moore's attempt to provide a MacIntyrean account of corporate governance. I argue that Moore's attempt is mismatched with MacIntyre's account of moral education. Because the notion of practices resists general application I go on to argue that a negative application, which focuses on regulation, is more plausible. Large-scale regulation, usually thought antithetical to MacIntyre's advocacy of small-scale politics, has the potential to facilitate practice-based work and reveals that MacIntyre's own work can be used against his pessimism about the modern order. Furthermore, the conception of regulation I defend can show us how management is more amenable to ethical understanding than MacIntyre's work is often taken to imply.

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Section: Macintyre's Account Of Practicesmentioning

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Practices, Governance, and Politics: Applying MacIntyre’s Ethics to Business

Sinnicks

2014

Bus. Ethics Q.

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“…Dobson ( 1997 ), for instance, summarizes much of the earliest engagement with MacIntyre's work within the field of business ethics in the 1990s as essentially accusing MacIntyre of being “anti-business” and deploying a “straw-man-type argument” of managerial viciousness to identify what he takes to be an inherent “schism between business and ethics” (p. 126). One scholar who exemplifies Dobson's analysis is Brewer ( 1997 ), arguing that in MacIntyre's account one finds a flurry of arguments condemning the manager that are “clouded by his normative bias against the economic sphere” (p. 825). It may be surprising to note, however, that this did not prevent Brewer ( 1997 ) and many others who would come later from attempting to square MacIntyre's definition of a practice with a positive ideal of the manager and to do so by attempting to use some of MacIntyre's own statements against him.…”

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“…One scholar who exemplifies Dobson's analysis is Brewer ( 1997 ), arguing that in MacIntyre's account one finds a flurry of arguments condemning the manager that are “clouded by his normative bias against the economic sphere” (p. 825). It may be surprising to note, however, that this did not prevent Brewer ( 1997 ) and many others who would come later from attempting to square MacIntyre's definition of a practice with a positive ideal of the manager and to do so by attempting to use some of MacIntyre's own statements against him. This section briefly recounts that history, placing particular emphasis on the turn of events that happened largely as a byproduct of conversations beginning with Moore ( 2002 ), which have since been picked up by other MacIntyrean business ethicists as well as MacIntyre himself.…”

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“…Most of the earliest efforts to resuscitate an ideal of management as a practice in MacIntyre's terms, such as Brewer ( 1997 ) attempt, have been discredited largely for reasons concerning (a) how they fail to meet the full scope of MacIntyre's definition of a practice, or (b) because they attempt to sneak a “science” of management in through the backdoor, which in one way or another always reinforces the manipulative capitalist conditions of the workplace that MacIntyre criticizes. Useful for our discussion here regarding its various components is (MacIntyre, [1981] 2007 ) unique definition of a practice, which entails a:…”

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A MacIntyrean account of chronic moral injury: Assessing the implications of bad management and marginalized practices at work

Abadal

Potts²

2022

Front. Sociol.

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In this article, we engage with a theory of management advanced by MacIntyrean scholars of business ethics and organization studies to develop an account of “chronic moral injury” in the workplace. In contrast to what we call “acute moral injury,” which focuses on grave, traumatic events, chronic moral injury results from poor institutional form—when an individual desiring excellence must function within a vicious institution that impedes the acquisition of virtues and marginalizes practices. In other words, chronic moral injury occurs when practitioners who pursue excellence in their practice work within corrupt or malformed organizations. To demonstrate this point, we recount the events associated with the rise and fall of the biotech company, Theranos. This case study advances an empirical contribution to MacIntyrean studies by demonstrating how chronic moral injury can happen under such conditions and what the negative consequences may entail for workers.

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“…However, for many the problem is not ethics per se but the actual variant of ethics with rule-based ethics the culprit. As a result Alasdair MacIntyre is promoted by many business ethicists (amongst others see Brewer (1997);Horvath (1995); Moore (2003)) who favour his championing of virtue ethics over utilitarian or deontological theories. That, however, might not be as simple as it sounds.…”

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Qualifications and ethics education: the views of ICT professionals

Al‐Saggaf

Burmeister

Schwartz

2017

AJIS

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Do information and communications technology (ICT) professionals who have ICT qualifications believe that the ethics education they received as part of their ICT degrees helped them recognise ethical problems in the workplace and address them? If they do, are they also influenced by their personal ethics? What else helps them recognise ethical problems in the workplace and address them? And what are their views in relation to the impact of ethics education on professionalism in the ICT workplace? A quantitative survey of 2,315 Australian ICT professionals revealed that participants who reported having various levels of qualifications found ethics education or training, to a small degree, helpful for recognising ethical problems and addressing them; although it is those with Non-ICT qualifications, not those with ICT degrees, who were influenced more by ethics education or training. This suggests that educators need to consider how to better prepare ICT graduates for the workplace challenges and the types of situations they subsequently experience. The survey also found that participants who reported having various levels of qualifications were not influenced by their personal ethics or indeed any other factor making ethics education or training important for developing professionalism. The quantitative survey was followed by qualitative interviews with 43 Australian ICT professionals in six Australian capital cities. These interviews provided further empirical evidence that ethics education is crucial for enabling ICT professionals to recognise ethical problems and resolve them and that educators need to consider how to better prepare ICT graduates for the types of moral dilemmas that they are likely going to face in the workforce.

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Cited by 60 publications

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Practices, Governance, and Politics: Applying MacIntyre’s Ethics to Business

Practices, Governance, and Politics: Applying MacIntyre’s Ethics to Business

A MacIntyrean account of chronic moral injury: Assessing the implications of bad management and marginalized practices at work

Qualifications and ethics education: the views of ICT professionals

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