Abstract
In search of ethical conceptual frameworks that are applicable to the practical reality of companies, ethical leadership has recently gained ground in Business Ethics scholarship as a broad umbrella under which to fit both normative and descriptive approaches to management. This article delves into Carlos Llano's seminal studies in the field, and his rediscovery of the “practical idea” as a dynamic principle for integrating the practice of management and ethical leadership in light of a realistic personalism. Llano was one of the first authors to study the firm from a humanistic, people-centered perspective as a “community or people,” and his view of practical wisdom is an effort to integrate this intellectual virtue with human will by offering a personalist open dynamism that is at the center of all relationships at work, allowing those involved to grow therein. Hence, his notion of the practical idea is his most original contribution to the promotion of managerial action as a catalyst for person-centered leadership.
Highlights
In recent years, the search for ethical conceptual frameworks applicable to the practical reality of companies has intensified
This paper introduced Llano’s work on managerial action in light of practical wisdom
It made a systematic account of the acts and habits of practical reason in the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition, as well as focused on the will– whose study has been rather overlooked. It presented a synthesis of Llano’s most original contribution, namely the practical idea or exemplary cause, which is precisely what allows firm managers to go beyond mere speculation toward the practice of leadership
Summary
The search for ethical conceptual frameworks applicable to the practical reality of companies has intensified. By exploring the ethical dimension of leadership that displays a true concern for people, this paper delves into managerial (directive) action in light of the “practical idea,” a personalist principle capable of integrating the practice of ethical leadership within a person-centered management culture. As a directive principle (principium direns), the practical idea harkens back to the Aristotelian notion of exemplary cause—which Carlos Llano recovered in his effort to develop a proposal for person-centered leadership (Murcio, 2020). For these conceptual frameworks to be viable, the true practice of leadership should be understood as a function of service and collaboration around the common good This was precisely the purpose of the late Mexican-Spanish thinker Carlos Llano Cifuentes, who devoted his academic career to the study of the firm, focusing on managerial action in light of the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition. This paper’s ultimate aim is to highlight the central role of the practical idea, which provides space for the creative participation of all individuals in the company, and leads to person-centered ethical leadership
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