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Promoting High Quality Work: Obstacles and Opportunities

verfasst von: David A. Spencer

Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics | Ausgabe 3/2013

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This article addresses competing arguments from ethics as well as economics about the obstacles and opportunities for promoting high quality work (i.e. work that sustains and enhances well-being). It ultimately defends on ethical as well as economic grounds the case for maximising the number and equalising the distribution of high quality work opportunities and outlines some policy measures that might be used to achieve the latter objective. The article contributes to the business ethics literature principally by offering a systematic and interdisciplinary analysis of the scope and necessity for progress in the quality of working life.

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Titel: Promoting High Quality Work: Obstacles and Opportunities
verfasst von: David A. Spencer
Publikationsdatum: 01.05.2013
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 3/2013
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-012-1368-5

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