The Virtuous Manager: A Vision for Leadership in Business |
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Authors: | Gabriel Flynn |
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Institution: | (1) Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin City University, Clonliffe Road, Dublin 3, Ireland |
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Abstract: | This article seeks to contribute to a vision for leadership in business based on a recovery of virtue. The vision for leadership
articulated here draws principally on the writings of the classical philosopher Aristotle and of the contemporary philosopher
Josef Pieper. Without discounting the ever-increasing complexity of modern business, this essay will attempt to reconstruct
Aristotle’s emphasis on virtue and moral character, and argues for the philosopher’s relevance to modern management and corporate
leadership. The paper concludes that the message of virtue is a message of hope and attempts to find plain language to articulate
its value to those engaged in business or concerned with the formulation of government policy.
Gabriel Flynn teaches at Mater Dei Institute, Dublin City University in Dublin. He holds higher degrees in moral and systematic
theology. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford. He is editor of Leadership and Values for Business: European
and American Perspectives (New York/Berlin: Springer, forthcoming 2007). He has contributed scholarly articles to Louvain
Studies, Concilium, New Blackfriars and elsewhere. |
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Keywords: | Aristotle ethics Ireland leadership leisure manager responsibility virtues Thomistic ethics |
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