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Asian Journal of Business Ethics

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Organizational moral learning by spiritual hearts: a synthesis of organizational learning, Islamic and critical realist perspectives

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Erschienen in: Asian Journal of Business Ethics | Ausgabe 2/2020

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Learning and development are often linked in the organization studies literature. To understand the dynamics of organizational moral development, this paper utilizes the notion of organizational moral learning (OML). It is explored using three perspectives: organizational learning, Islamic and critical realist perspectives. The perspectives are then synthesized together to form a single framework, called the OML by ‘spiritual hearts’ framework. At the centre of the framework is the spiritual heart, the seat of profound understanding and moral consciousness. The heart plays a central role in organizational moral development, especially with regard to its potential to be ‘purified’ and corrupted. Two extreme parameters then are created: on one side is the ‘purified hearts’ with high moral consciousness contributing towards OML, and on the other is the ‘corrupted hearts’ with high immoral consciousness contributing towards organizational immoral learning. Between the two extremes are the ‘diseased hearts’, possessing a mixture of moral and immoral consciousness to various degrees, and have the potentials to contribute to both moral and immoral developments. The paper further suggests strategies to facilitate OML and simultaneously inhibits organizational immoral learning.

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Titel: Organizational moral learning by spiritual hearts: a synthesis of organizational learning, Islamic and critical realist perspectives
verfasst von: Iznan Tarip
Publikationsdatum: 09.10.2020
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Asian Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 2/2020
Print ISSN: 2210-6723
Elektronische ISSN: 2210-6731
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13520-020-00112-9

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