Essai: Business Ethics and Bauman Ethics
探讨鲍曼对“官僚心态”的警告如何应用于商业伦理,指出商业伦理若只提供理性化规则而非增强道德自主性,可能削弱组织成员的道德本质。
This paper relates Zygmunt Bauman's admonitions of the 'bureaucratic mentality' to business ethics. Although I am not in agreement with everything Bauman has to say, I will argue that business ethicists, consultants and others who claim to be able to do the moral thinking for others should take Bauman's worries about the moral autonomy of people working in our organizations very seriously. As long as business ethics does not enhance this moral autonomy but instead proffers a ratio nalized and rule-governed ethics, it may very well undermine the moral nature of people working in organizations.