Management as an Ethical Enterprise

Abstract

Organizations have the potential to affect the common good in a positive way and to achieve their own goals at the same time. This potential exists within a context of the belief that there is an organizational reality identified as ethical and that there is a mode of shaping the actions of organizations identified as ethical management behavior. The core dogma of the proposed alternative management paradigm conceives management as an ethical enterprise and that ethical behavior is consistent with human nature and not just a public relations strategy. An ethical standard is proposed, designed to reinforce the better angels of our nature and promote respect, trust, cooperation, equity, transparency and sustainability while achieving our self-interested goals.(Note to Editor - In the Anticipatory Summary below, please make the placement of bullet points and alignment of points (indented, etc.) exactly as presented in the original submitted manuscript.)