Imperfect Duties of Management: The Ethical Norm of Managerial Decisions

ISBN-13: 9783030076344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 241 str.

Richard M. Robinson

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Contents

 

I                  Introduction: The Nexus of Imperfect Duty

                   and the Ethical Norm                                                              

 

II                 Kant’s Categorical Imperative and Moral Duties                    

 

III                The Nexus of Managerial Duty and its Conceptual

                   Advantages                                                                             

 

IV               Relations of Virtue                                                                            

 

V                Reasoned Managerial Decisions                                              

 

VI               Due Diligence and the Profit Motive: Perfect

                   Or Imperfect Duty?                                                                 

 

VII              Managers, Virtues, and Dispositions?                                              

VIII             Fair Negotiations                                                                     

 

IX               Management Perquisites and Imperfect Duty                                   

 

                   Index                                                                                       

 

                   Bibliography                                                                           

O autorze

Richard M. Robinson is Professor of Business Administration at SUNY Fredonia, USA. His research explores the ethical foundation of managerial behavior.

Blurb

This book uses Kant's idea of imperfect duty to extend the theory of the firm. Unlike perfect duty which is contractual or otherwise legally binding, imperfect duty consists of those commitments of choice that pursue some moral value, but that have practical limits to their pursuit. The author presents a broad view of the imperfect duties of management, defined as a nexus of all commitments to do good involving relations internal and external to the firm. This nexus consists of three overlapping categories of (i) building a virtuous managerial community, (ii) pursuing reasoned managerial discourse, and (iii) diligent and reasoned pursuit of the body of routine managerial duties such as capital budgeting and internal controls. Specific applications of the nexus theory for stakeholder relations via fair negotiation, and for analysis of the effects on the managerial team of perquisite consumption are presented.

This book has major implications for research in business ethics and allows critical insights into managerial decision making.