Abstract
The fallout of the 2008 global financial crisis and frequent disregard for labor, environmental, and social standards have instilled new vigor into the study of ethics and virtues. In the contemporary knowledge society, the issue of which virtues the modern day workforce needs to possess is of crucial significance. This study specifies the virtues laid out in the management theory of Peter Drucker (1909-2005), focusing upon the conceptual category of the knowledge worker as the primary unit of the contemporary information and innovation-based knowledge society. The idea and role of intellectual virtues are not yet fully developed in the literature, especially as those identified in this article are the source of critical and creative thinking. This intervention, therefore, identifies prudence, effectiveness, excellence, integrity, and truthfulness as the knowledge worker’s intellectual virtues, whereas practical wisdom, responsibility, cooperation, and courage are seen to constitute the knowledge worker’s moral character.
Highlights
This article addresses the role of knowledge workers’ virtues within the knowledge society according to the late Peter Drucker’s management theory as synthesized by Maciariello (2009)
Effectiveness, excellence, integrity, and truthfulness as knowledge workers’ intellectual virtues, and practical wisdom, responsibility, cooperation, and courage as moral character
We argue that it is advisable to analyze the ethical scope of innovation in the knowledge society because it is human action par excellence, and for this reason, it is possible to frame ethics and value judgments
Summary
This article addresses the role of knowledge workers’ virtues within the knowledge society according to the late Peter Drucker’s management theory as synthesized by Maciariello (2009). Moral character, ethics, Peter Drucker, knowledge workers, knowledge society We single out the intellectual virtues and moral character that knowledge workers need to make lasting contributions to a functioning knowledge society.
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