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  1. (1 other version)Hierarchical control or individuals' moral autonomy? Addressing a fundamental tension in the management of business ethics.Patrick Maclagan - 2007 - Business Ethics: A European Review 16 (1):48-61.
    There is a fundamental tension in business ethics between the apparent need to ensure ethical conduct through hierarchical control, and the encouragement of individuals' potential for autonomous moral judgement. In philosophical terms, these positions are consequentialist and Kantian, respectively. This paper assumes the former to be the dominant position in practice, and probably in theory also, but regards it as a misplaced extension of the more general managerial tendency to seek and maintain control over employees. While the functions of such (...)
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  • Organisational Harmony as a Value in Family Businesses and Its Influence on Performance.M. Carmen Ruiz Jiménez, Manuel Carlos Vallejo Martos & Rocío Martínez Jiménez - 2015 - Journal of Business Ethics 126 (2):1-14.
    The aims of this research were twofold: first, to compare the levels of organisational harmony between family and non-family firms and, second, to study the influence of organisational harmony on family firms’ performance (profitability, longevity and group cohesion). Starting from a definition of organisational harmony as a value and considering the importance of the management of organisational values, we use the main topics indicated by the general literature (organisational climate, trust and participation) to analyse organisational harmony, as well as three (...)
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  • (1 other version)Self-actualisation as a moral concept and the implications for motivation in organisations: A Kantian argument.Patrick Maclagan - 2003 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 12 (4):334–342.
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  • (1 other version)Hierarchical control or individuals' moral autonomy? Addressing a fundamental tension in the management of business ethics.Patrick Maclagan - 2007 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 16 (1):48–61.
    There is a fundamental tension in business ethics between the apparent need to ensure ethical conduct through hierarchical control, and the encouragement of individuals' potential for autonomous moral judgement. In philosophical terms, these positions are consequentialist and Kantian, respectively. This paper assumes the former to be the dominant position in practice, and probably in theory also, but regards it as a misplaced extension of the more general managerial tendency to seek and maintain control over employees. While the functions of such (...)
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  • (1 other version)Self-actualisation as a moral concept and the implications for motivation in organisations: a Kantian argument.Patrick Maclagan - 2003 - Business Ethics: A European Review 12 (4):334-342.
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