Trust And Managerial Responsibility

This paper explores the moral responsibility a manager has toward a worker. The primary focus is upon those relationships where workers have been led to trust their managers. I argue that in such circumstances, models of the employment relationship based on rational self-interest fail to adequately...

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Autor principal: Soule, Edward (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Cambridge Univ. Press 1998
En: Business ethics quarterly
Año: 1998, Volumen: 8, Número: 2, Páginas: 249-272
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Sumario:This paper explores the moral responsibility a manager has toward a worker. The primary focus is upon those relationships where workers have been led to trust their managers. I argue that in such circumstances, models of the employment relationship based on rational self-interest fail to adequately describe the behavior of the actors. Rather, I show through case studies how trust operates in these environments to supercede pure, self-interested behavior. I then explore the moral implications of this finding relative to those managers who lead their workers to trust them. I make the claim that these managers cannot adequately discharge their moral obligations unless they take on positive moral obligations. I cast this responsibility as one of positive care for some portion of worker welfare and briefly discuss what this might mean in practice.
ISSN:2153-3326
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Business ethics quarterly
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3857328