Professionalism: Foundation for business ethics
Professionalism includes the essential contents of other key notions within the field of business ethics. As a term involving the notion of ‘vocation’ it may be understood as containing a religious content, since ‘vocation’ refers to a man's most intimate personal decisions, ‘destiny’ and ‘prov...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
1984
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| In: |
Journal of business ethics
Year: 1984, Volume: 3, Issue: 4, Pages: 269-277 |
| Further subjects: | B
Personal Commitment
B Business Community B Business Ethic B Personal Decision B Economic Growth |
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| Summary: | Professionalism includes the essential contents of other key notions within the field of business ethics. As a term involving the notion of ‘vocation’ it may be understood as containing a religious content, since ‘vocation’ refers to a man's most intimate personal decisions, ‘destiny’ and ‘providence’. Professionalism also connotes respect for law and so includes a reference to commercial law as a guide to right conduct. Professionalsim thus lifts the requirements of law to the level of personal commitment., Like an ‘honest act’, professionalism may not be easy to define, but you will know it when you see it. As for professionalism's practitioners, like the practitioners of honesty, their art is learned not by seeking definitions of what they do, but by practicing professionalism. Only if this practice becomes an ‘obsession’ with the ‘Business Aristocracy’ can we expect professionalism to seize the soul of ‘lesser’ businessmen and suffuse the entire business community. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/BF00381747 |