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

本建议的主要目的是提供一个有意义的替代方案，以解决西方最具影响力的伦理理论背后的基本假设所存在的一些问题和局限性；特别是由康德和结果主义发展起来的义务论，边沁和J.S.密尔是主要理论家。事实上，这两种方法都被指责不足以解决诸如社会不平等（Tanzler et al. 2012）、环境问题（Persson 2009）和个人意义丧失（Seidman 1983）等系统性问题，新自由主义西方既是作者也是接受者，因为他们过分强调个人理性，并假设道德判断在某种程度上是可推导的，就像可推导的数学问题一样（Hamington and Sander-Staudt 2011，第ix页）。从个体作为道德的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），导致某人的合法需求因为更高的道德原则而受到限制，或者因为他们的需求为了更大的利益而牺牲。此外，由于过度的自我主义立场，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（Malachowski 2001, p.46）。本研究旨在以关怀伦理与慈悲领导概念之间的密切联系为出发点，为西方商业伦理提供另一种思考方式，慈悲领导概念是基于佛教的核心慈悲原则。目标是全面了解在西方背景下实施富有同情心的领导的程度，以及对员工和民间社会组织等利益相关者的影响。

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.