2018
DOI: 10.1007/s41463-018-0040-3
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Interpreting the Virtues of Mindfulness and Compassion: Contemplative Practices and Virtue-Oriented Business Ethics

Abstract: The article aims to provide a standpoint from which to critically address two broad concerns. The first concern surrounds a naïve view of mindfulness, which takes it as a given that it is a good thing to cultivate mindfulness and attendant qualities like compassion because these virtues are key to improving the quality of life and bettering effective decisionmaking within business. Yet the virtue of mindfulness has roots in religious and spiritual traditions, and the virtue of compassion is complex and context… Show more

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“…Emotional intelligence for instance, the ability to recognize and manage emotions in self and others, is related to team and leader performance (Ashkanasy and Dasborough, 2003; Ashkanasy and Dorris, 2017). There is also an ethical and virtuous aspect to managing emotions for leaders (Brown and Treviño, 2006; Jackson, 2018), a responsibility for acting in a way that causes the least amount of harm for others, grounded in an awareness that leader behaviors are strongly related to followers’ wellbeing, job and life satisfaction (Kelloway et al, 2005) and that both positive and negative emotions of leaders may be contagious. For example, increased levels of positive affect of leaders are associated with greater goal attainment and follower performance (Joseph et al, 2015).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Emotional intelligence for instance, the ability to recognize and manage emotions in self and others, is related to team and leader performance (Ashkanasy and Dasborough, 2003; Ashkanasy and Dorris, 2017). There is also an ethical and virtuous aspect to managing emotions for leaders (Brown and Treviño, 2006; Jackson, 2018), a responsibility for acting in a way that causes the least amount of harm for others, grounded in an awareness that leader behaviors are strongly related to followers’ wellbeing, job and life satisfaction (Kelloway et al, 2005) and that both positive and negative emotions of leaders may be contagious. For example, increased levels of positive affect of leaders are associated with greater goal attainment and follower performance (Joseph et al, 2015).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Following Aristotelian virtue ethics, which focuses on moral appraisal, character, human flourishing, and excellence (Alzola, 2012, ; Annas, 2011; Foot, 2001; Jackson, 2018), we are primarily concerned with an ethics of being or of character and secondarily with an ethics of doing (Alzola, 2012; Appiah, 2008; Moore, 2005). Virtue ethics evaluates an action as good or right depending on whether it is what a virtuous agent would do in the given circumstances as a result of his character (NE, 1106b18‐24).…”
Section: The Role Of Virtue and Virtuousness In Determining Moral Responsibilitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Virtue ethics evaluates an action as good or right depending on whether it is what a virtuous agent would do in the given circumstances as a result of his character (NE, 1106b18‐24). Hence, more attention is given to the way virtues determine and are internally expressed in the human character, rather than on how they are expressed in human actions (Jackson, 2018), in a nonreductive approach that preserves the inner aspects of virtue (Alzola, 2015). A virtuous act is thus dependent upon a virtuous person: “There is no such thing as an objectively virtuous action in itself, considered independently of the person who performs it” (Sison & Ferrero, 2015, p. 86).…”
Section: The Role Of Virtue and Virtuousness In Determining Moral Responsibilitymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In fact, the recent rise of mindfulness, yoga, and other spiritually derived practices demonstrate the need for such learning. Mindfulness practices, for example, have been documented to lead to better balance on multiple levels resulting in beneficial health outcomes, productivity increases, and more ethical decision-making (Jackson 2018;Pirson et al 2018).…”
Section: Balancing Abilitymentioning
confidence: 99%