- Title
- The morality of everyday activities: not the right, but the good thing to do
- Creator
- Nyberg, Daniel
- Relation
- Journal of Business Ethics Vol. 81, Issue 3, p. 587-598
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-007-9530-1
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- This article attempts to understand and develop the morality of everyday activities in organizations. Aristotle’s concept of phronesis, practical wisdom, is utilized to describe the morality of the everyday work activities at two call centres of an Australian insurance company. The ethnographic data suggests that ethical judgements at the lower level of the organization are practical rather than theoretical; emergent rather than static; ambiguous rather than clear-cut; and particular rather than universal. Ethical codes are of limited value here and it is argued that by developing phronesis members of the organization can improve their capacity to deal with this ethical complexity.
- Subject
- aristotle; ethical codes; organizational ethics; phronesis; situated ethics
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1058503
- Identifier
- uon:16430
- Identifier
- ISSN:0167-4544
- Rights
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0), which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
- Language
- eng
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