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The character of the manager : from office executive to wise steward /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beabout, Gregory R., 1960-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:Humanism in business series.
Subjects:
Leadership.
Executives.
Interpersonal communication.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • The humanistic management network
  • Introduction
  • The dreams of future managers
  • Moral philosophy and the manager
  • Macintyre, our gadfly
  • The manager as office executive : emotivism embodied in a character
  • Strengths and weaknesses of treating the manager as a stock character
  • Plot and perspective : character traits and their cultivation
  • The setting : institutional social structures, success, and excellence
  • Macintyre against the manager
  • The virtuous manager, the art of character, and business humanities
  • Character transformation in the friendship of readers and writers
  • Transforming the character of the moral philosopher
  • Transforming character : the manager and the aesthete
  • Transforming the character of the rhetorician
  • The manager as wise steward : activities, practice, and virtue
  • Management is a domain-relative practice
  • The dispositions of the wise steward and the parts of practical wisdom
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography.