The Ethics of Shifting Ties: Management Theory and the Breakdown of Culture In Modernity
重新解读梅尔维尔·道尔顿的《管理者》一书，认为其将道德简化为政治，为当代个人崇拜和道德黑暗时代提供了理论依据。
ABSTRACT Despite a long tradition of documenting unethical practices in organizations, the sociology of organization literature has seldom addressed the question of management ethics. One early work in the field, Melville Dalton's Men Who Manage (1959), did develop a contingent approach to ethics that is seen as a precursor to contemporary discussions in modern and postmodern organization theory. In this essay, Dalton's work is interpreted in terms of a premodern or traditional view of moral theory. It is concluded that Dalton and those who have followed him have reduced morality to politics and have provided an intellectual rationale for the contemporary dark ages of moral behaviour with its worship of the cult of the individual.