Moral Responsibility, Shared Values, and Corporate Culture
Moral Responsibility, Shared Values, and Corporate Culture
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DOI：
10.1017/beq.2015.31
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发表时间：
2015-07-01
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3
通讯作者：
Dempsey, James
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作者：
Dempsey, James
虽然将企业文化描述为道德或不道德并不值得注意，但这种说法的含义以及如何证明这一说法是合理的仍然很不清楚。我开始解决这两个问题，通过提供一个帐户的企业文化的内在价值观，是由组织成员共享，并支持组织的目标。然后，我采用这种分析提供了一个新的帐户道德责任是如何产生和分布在商业组织。由于某些企业价值观或文化会促进成员的不当行为，因此所有参与这种文化的人都将对所造成的不当行为承担一定程度的道德责任。我们可以说，他们是不法行为的同谋，因为他们帮助促成了这一行为，这是因为，通过以创造企业文化的方式分享价值观，组织成员相互给予了按照这些价值观行事的理由。
Although it is unremarkable to hear a corporate culture described as ethical or unethical, it remains quite unclear what such a claim means or how it may be justified. I begin by addressing these two questions by offering an account of corporate culture as the intrinsic values that are shared by organisation members and that underpin organisational goals. I then employ this analysis to offer a new account of how moral responsibility is generated and distributed in business organisations. Since certain corporate values, or culture, will predictably promote wrongdoing by members, all those who participated in that culture will acquire a degree of moral responsibility for the wrongdoing that results. They are, we may say, complicit in the wrongdoing because they helped facilitate it. This is because, by sharing values in the way that creates corporate culture, organisation members give each other reasons for acting in line with those values.