Character and Environment: The Status of Virtues in Organizations |
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Authors: | Alzola Miguel |
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Institution: | (1) Rutgers University, 180 University Avenue, 200 f, Newark, NJ 07102, USA |
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Abstract: | Using evidence from experimental psychology, some social psychologists, moral philosophers and organizational scholars claim
that character traits do not exist and, hence, that the philosophical tradition of virtue ethics is empirically inadequate
and should dispose of the notion of character to accommodate the empirical evidence. In this paper, I systematically address
the debate between dispositionalists and situationists about the existence, status and properties of character traits and
their manifestations in human behavior, with the ultimate goal of responding to the question whether virtue ethicists need
to abandon the very enterprise of building a character-based moral theory in business ethics and organizational behavior.
In the course of this paper, I shall defend the claim that the situationist argument relies on a misinterpretation of the
experimental evidence.
Miguel Alzola is a Fulbright Fellow from Argentina completing his Ph.D. in Business Ethics at Rutgers University. He is doing
research on moral psychology, virtue ethics and organizational behavior at the Prudential Business Ethics Center. |
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Keywords: | virtue ethics business ethics social psychology moral character personality psychology |
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