RT Article
T1 Integrating Business and Ethical Values Through Practitioner Dialogue
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 22
IS 3
SP 203
OP 217
A1 Lozano, Josep M.
A1 Sauquet, Alfons
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 1999
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785613057
AB In practice, the relationship between business and ethics is not well-settled. In the past, organisations have developed an interest in setting value charts but this has been approached from a purely managerial perspective following the momentum and interest aroused by research on organisational cultures. Although interest in managing organisational cultures has slowly died down, for both theoretical and practical reasons we argue that there are feasible ways to explore values as part of an organisational culture. Indeed it is our claim that it is feasible and productive to discuss values within organisations. However, rather than developing sophisticated theoretical frameworks, more efforts should be put into thinking about the conditions under which participants can enter into productive dialogue. It is our claim that if processes are carefully examined people within organisations can make better sense of their work and discover their own perspective to account for what they actually do and to project themselves into what they think they should be doing. Thus, values identified within the organisation can eventually reach a point where they become an expression of a shared commitment. The experience we describe aims to illustrate only one example of a concrete application of this approach.
K1 Values
K1 Learning
K1 Experience
K1 Dialogue
K1 Culture
K1 Business Ethics
DO 10.1023/A:1006238611718