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Journal of Business Ethics

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19.10.2015

What Should a Manager Like Me Do in a Situation Like This? Strategies for Handling Ethical Problems from the Viewpoint of the Logic of Appropriateness

verfasst von: Minna-Maaria Hiekkataipale, Anna-Maija Lämsä

Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics | Ausgabe 3/2017

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In this research, we argue that managers have various strategies for handling complex ethical problems and that these strategies are formed according to the logic of appropriateness. First, we will show through a qualitative empirical study the different strategies that are used for handling ethical problems. Five types of strategies are identified in this study: mediating, principled, isolation, teaching and bystanding. Secondly, we will investigate the types of ethical approaches which managers reveal when handling ethical problems. Thirdly, we will discuss which strategies seem to contribute to the overall ethicality of organisations. To conclude, we suggest that the decisions and actions of managers like the middle managers in this study are influenced by their interpretation of what is appropriate behaviour in the particular situation.

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Titel: What Should a Manager Like Me Do in a Situation Like This? Strategies for Handling Ethical Problems from the Viewpoint of the Logic of Appropriateness
verfasst von: Minna-Maaria Hiekkataipale
Anna-Maija Lämsä
Publikationsdatum: 19.10.2015
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 3/2017
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-015-2911-y

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