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Crisis, opportunity & virtue: the role of virtue ethics in corporate crisis management
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/110032 Crisis, opportunity & virtue: the role of virtue ethics in corporate crisis management Khubana, Mukondeleli Isaac Hartford, Anna Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Philosophy. Crisis management Business ethics Responsibility Virtue Executives -- Conduct of life UCTD Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2021. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Corporate crisis management is an underdeveloped field of study, which requires considerable additional research. In particular, the role of virtue ethics in responding to corporate crises has not been given sufficient attention. In this paper, I argue that virtue ethics has unique advantages in conceptualising ethical responses in times of corporate crisis due to its emphasis on leaders' moral character. I further argue that the relevant virtues can be cultivated even by leaders who initially lack virtuous dispositions. It appears that while the corporate codes of conduct, policies, and rules that are often inspired by consequentialist and deontological ethical approaches are helpful in many contexts, they are often inadequate in preventing and responding to corporate crisis. This inadequacy points to a need for a framework beyond traditional methods currently used to manage corporate crisis. The focus of virtue ethics on individual character, integrity, and moral motivation can help restore the sense of personal responsibility that can be eroded in corporate crisis. Based on the analyses of sample cases representing poor corporate crisis management, particularly in South Africa, and a review of the methods of moral disengagements that can be linked to different stages of a corporate crisis, the paper identifies and discusses six virtues that leaders must cultivate to respond to the crisis virtuously. The virtues discussed include compassion, caring, trustworthiness, justice, prudence, and honesty. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Korporatiewe krisisbestuur is 'n onderontwikkelde studieveld wat heelwat addisionele navorsing verg. Die rol van deugde-etiek in die reaksie op korporatiewe krisisse word nie voldoende aangespreek nie. In hierdie referaat voer ek aan dat deugde-etiek unieke voordele het in die konseptualisering van etiese reaksies in tye van korporatiewe krisis weens die klem op leiers se morele karakter. Ek voer verder aan dat die relevante deugde selfs gekweek kan word deur leiers wat aanvanklik nie deugsaamheid uitleef nie. Alhoewel die korporatiewe gedragskodes, -beleid en -reëls wat dikwels geïnspireer word deur die gepaardgaande en deontologiese etiese benaderings in baie kontekste nuttig is, blyk dit dikwels onvoldoende om ‘n korporatiewe krisis te voorkom en daarop te reageer. Hierdie ontoereikendheid dui op die behoefte aan 'n raamwerk buite die tradisionele metodes wat tans gebruik word om korporatiewe krisisse te bestuur. Die fokus van deugde-etiek op individuele karakter, integriteit en morele motivering kan help om die gevoel van persoonlike verantwoordelikheid wat in sakekrisisse verval, te herstel. Op grond van die ontledings van voorbeelde van gevalle wat swak korporatiewe krisisbestuur verteenwoordig, veral in Suid-Afrika, en 'n oorsig van die metodes van morele onttrekking wat gekoppel kan word aan verskillende stadiums van 'n korporatiewe krisis, word die deugde van ses leiers identifiseer en bespreek watter deugde leiers moet aankweek om deugsaam op die krisis te reageer. Die deugde wat bespreek word, sluit in medelye, omgee, betroubaarheid, regverdigheid, omsigtigheid en eerlikheid. Masters 2021-03-02T10:35:16Z 2021-04-21T14:37:15Z 2021-03-02T10:35:16Z 2021-04-21T14:37:15Z 2021-03 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/110032 en_ZA Stellenbosch University vi, 67 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Crisis management Business ethics Responsibility Virtue Executives -- Conduct of life UCTD Khubana, Mukondeleli Isaac Crisis, opportunity & virtue: the role of virtue ethics in corporate crisis management |
| title | Crisis, opportunity & virtue: the role of virtue ethics in corporate crisis management |
| title_full | Crisis, opportunity & virtue: the role of virtue ethics in corporate crisis management |
| title_fullStr | Crisis, opportunity & virtue: the role of virtue ethics in corporate crisis management |
| title_full_unstemmed | Crisis, opportunity & virtue: the role of virtue ethics in corporate crisis management |
| title_short | Crisis, opportunity & virtue: the role of virtue ethics in corporate crisis management |
| title_sort | crisis opportunity virtue the role of virtue ethics in corporate crisis management |
| topic | Crisis management Business ethics Responsibility Virtue Executives -- Conduct of life UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/110032 |
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