Organizational Ethics and the Good Life

Hartman's book is a significant and welcome addition to the business ethics lexicon. . . . If philosophers are to continue to play a role in the business ethics dialogue, this is the kind of book a philosopher should be writing. It will be a rich and rewarding experience for those who read it and a useful text in a business ethics class.

• Foreword by R. Edward Freeman Introduction 1: What Morality is About 1.1: Reasons for being moral 1.2: The interests of others as reasons for action 1.3: Morality and one's best interests: a start 1.4: Relativism 1.5: Interpretation and the limits of morality 1.6: The Ik 1.7: Prospects 2: Utilitarianism and its Difficulties 2.1: Versions of happiness 2.2: Rights and the good life 2.3: Justice and rule utilitarianism 2.4: Moral principles and administrative rules 2.5: Utility and discrimination 2.6: Intimate matters 2.7: The attractions of justice 2.8: Interpreting alien communities 2.9: Prospects 3: Morality and Communities: Collective Action 3.1: Moral communties and social contracts 3.2: The commons problems 3.3: The commons and being better off 3.4: Character and motivation 3.5: Toward the good community 3.6: Prospects 4: Business, Ethics, and Business Ethics 4.1: Against business ethics 4.2: The purpose of the organization 4.3: Contractarian views and applied ethics 4.4: Contexts and consequences 4.5: Criticizing communities: relativism again 4.6: The principles of morality 4.7: Against theoretical ethics 4.8: Tactic ideology 4.9: Principles for a good organization: A Rawlsian proposal 4.10: Some modest remarks on justice and rights 4.11: Prospects 5: Morality and Autonomy 5.1: Persons 5.2: Pleasure and action: the utilitarian self 5.3: Autonomy 5.4: Choosing one's desires 5.5: Emotion 5.6: Prospects 6: Problems of Corporate Culture 6.1: The rational as social 6.2: Two experiments 6.3: The nature of culture 6.4: Culture as a way of managing 6.5: Culture and a theory of motivation 6.6: Japanese culture 6.7: The perils of culture 6.8: Culture and the commons 6.9: Culture, roles, self 6.10: Prospects 7: The Good Community and the Good Organization 7.1: Exit, loyalty, and voice 7.2: Exit 7.3: Loyalty 7.4: Voice 7.5: Dealing with many voices 7.6: The good life and the good community Bibliography Index