The impact of Buddhist business leadership on employee engagement in the UK

这一建议的主要目的是提供一个有意义的替代方案，以解决西方最有影响力的伦理理论背后的一些基本假设的问题和局限性，特别是由康德发展的道义论和以边沁和J·S·米尔为主要理论家的结果主义。事实上，这两种方法都被指责为不足以解决社会不平等等系统性问题(坦桑尼亚等人。环境问题(Persson 2009)和个人意义丧失(Seidman 1983)，新自由主义西方既是这些问题的作者，也是这些问题的接受者，因为它们过于强调个人理性，并且假设道德判断以某种方式可以导出，就像可推断的数学问题(Hamington and Sander-Staudt 2011，P.ix)。从个人作为道德存在作为理性存在的概念出发，这种强调从最高原则的立场来看待道德困境，并将权利和义务作为建立关系的手段(Sevenhuijsen 2000，第10页)，导致一些情况下，某人的合法需求将因为更高的道德原则而受到限制，或者因为他们的需求被牺牲以换取更大的利益。此外，由于过分的利己主义立场，西方的伦理立场被认为对环境危机负有部分责任，因为它贬低了动物、植物和生态系统的价值(Malachowski 2001，p.46)。本研究旨在以关怀伦理与慈悲领导理念之间的密切联系为切入点，为西方经济伦理提供另一种思考方式。慈悲领导理念是以慈悲为核心原则的佛教核心理念。目标是全面了解在西方背景下实行同情领导的程度，以及这对雇员和民间社会组织等利益攸关方有何影响。

The main aim of this proposal is to provide a meaningful alternative to some of the problems and limitations concerning the basic assumptions behind the most influential ethical theories informing business ethics in the West; notably deontology, developed by Kant and consequentialism, with Bentham and J.S. Mill as the major theorists . In fact, both approaches have been charged to be inadequate to address systemic issues such as social inequality (Tanzler et al. 2012), environmental issues (Persson 2009) and individual loss of meaning (Seidman 1983) of which the Neo-liberal West is author as well as recipient, because of their overemphasis on individual rationality and the assumption that moral judgements are somehow derivable, like deductible math problems (Hamington and Sander-Staudt 2011, p. ix) . Starting from the conception of individuals as moral being qua rational beings, this emphasis looks at moral dilemmas from the stance of the highest principles and takes rights and obligations as a means of establishing relationships (Sevenhuijsen 2000, p. 10), resulting in situations where someone's legitimate needs will be restricted because of higher moral principles or because their needs have been sacrificed for the greater good. In addition, because of the excessive egotistical stance, the Western ethical standpoint has been deemed as partly responsible for the environmental crisis, as it devalues animals, plants and ecosystems (Malachowski 2001, p.46). The proposed research intends to provide an alternative way of thinking about business ethics in the West taking as a starting point the close link between the care ethics, and the concept of compassionate leadership, which is based on the Buddhist core principle of compassion. The objective is to develop a comprehensive understanding of the extent to which compassionate leadership is practised in a Western context and what is the impact on stakeholders such as employees and civil society organisations.