Organizational Ethics and the Good Life

• Foreword by R. Edward FreemanIntroduction1: What Morality is About1.1: Reasons for being moral1.2: The interests of others as reasons for action1.3: Morality and one's best interests: a start1.4: Relativism1.5: Interpretation and the limits of morality1.6: The Ik1.7: Prospects2: Utilitarianism and its Difficulties2.1: Versions of happiness2.2: Rights and the good life2.3: Justice and rule utilitarianism2.4: Moral principles and administrative rules2.5: Utility and discrimination2.6: Intimate matters2.7: The attractions of justice2.8: Interpreting alien communities2.9: Prospects3: Morality and Communities: Collective Action3.1: Moral communties and social contracts3.2: The commons problems3.3: The commons and being better off3.4: Character and motivation3.5: Toward the good community3.6: Prospects4: Business, Ethics, and Business Ethics4.1: Against business ethics4.2: The purpose of the organization4.3: Contractarian views and applied ethics4.4: Contexts and consequences4.5: Criticizing communities: relativism again4.6: The principles of morality4.7: Against theoretical ethics4.8: Tactic ideology4.9: Principles for a good organization: A Rawlsian proposal4.10: Some modest remarks on justice and rights4.11: Prospects5: Morality and Autonomy5.1: Persons5.2: Pleasure and action: the utilitarian self5.3: Autonomy5.4: Choosing one's desires5.5: Emotion5.6: Prospects6: Problems of Corporate Culture6.1: The rational as social6.2: Two experiments6.3: The nature of culture6.4: Culture as a way of managing6.5: Culture and a theory of motivation6.6: Japanese culture6.7: The perils of culture6.8: Culture and the commons6.9: Culture, roles, self6.10: Prospects7: The Good Community and the Good Organization7.1: Exit, loyalty, and voice7.2: Exit7.3: Loyalty7.4: Voice7.5: Dealing with many voices7.6: The good life and the good communityBibliographyIndex

Hartman's book is a significant and welcome addition to the business ethics lexicon. . . . If philosophers are to continue to play a role in the business ethics dialogue, this is the kind of book a philosopher should be writing. It will be a rich and rewarding experience for those who read it and a useful text in a business ethics class.