Theorising the Ethical Organization
Theorising the Ethical Organization
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道德组织的理论化
DOI：
10.2307/3857544
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发表时间：
1998
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J. Collier
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本文的目的是创建一个框架，可以作为一个指导的组织伦理的理解。这是通过将道德和组织理论联系起来来实现的。组织道德是关于“存在”和“行为”：因此，相关的道德理论既有实质性的（以行为者为中心，关注“善”），也有程序性的（以行为为中心，关注道德意义上的“正确”或正义的事情）。作为这两种传统的代表，阿拉斯代尔·麦金太尔和尤尔根·哈贝马斯的伦理理论被映射到一个框架上，该框架将组织描述为由嵌入组织文化中的气候所支持的实践的集合。组织实践在“意义建构”的话语中得到阐述和赋予意义，在这种话语中，叙事在人与事件之间创造了时空联系。在同样的交流氛围中，对实践进行评估并做出决定。这一理论框架的具体说明是为了突出与麦金泰尔和哈贝马斯的伦理理论的相似之处，麦金泰尔利用实践、传统和道德经验的叙事统一概念来创建“善”的伦理理论，哈贝马斯阐述了道德论证的过程，通过这种过程，就“正义”或“正确”达成共识。文章最后提出了进一步研究的可能性。
The aim of this paper is to create a framework which can serve as a guide to the understanding of organizational ethicality. This is done by linking ethical and organizational theory. Organizational ethicality is about “being” as well as “doing”: relevant ethical theory is therefore both substantive (agent-centred, concerned with the “good”) as well as procedural (act-centred, concerned with the “right” in the sense of the moral or just thing to do). The ethical theories of Alasdair MacIntyre and Jurgen Habermas, as representatives of these two traditions, are mapped onto a framework which characterises organizations as assemblages of practices supported by a climate embedded within an organizational culture. Organizational practice is articulated and given meaning within a discourse of “sensemaking” in which narrative creates space-time links between people and events. Within that same communicative climate practices are evaluated and decisions taken. This theoretical framework is specified in such a way as to highlight the parallels with the ethical theories of MacIntyre, who uses notions of practice, tradition and the narrative unity of moral experience to create an ethical theory of the “good,” and Habermas, who spells out the process of moral argumentation by which consensus on the “just” or “right” is reached. Some possibilities for further research are suggested at the end of the paper.