Sinnicks, Matthew (2018) Leadership After Virtue:MacIntyre’s Critique of Management Reconsidered. Journal of Business Ethics. pp. 735-746. ISSN 0167-4544
Abstract
MacIntyre argues that management embodies emotivism, and thus is inherently amoral and manipulative. His claim that management is necessarily Weberian is, at best, outdated, and the notion that management aims to be neutral and value free is incorrect. However, new forms of management, and in particular the increased emphasis on leadership which emerged after MacIntyre’s critique was published, tend to support his central charge. Indeed, charismatic and transformational forms of leadership seem to embody emotivism to a greater degree than do more Weberian, bureaucratic forms of management; hence, MacIntyre’s central contention about our emotivistic culture seems to be well founded. Having criticised the details but defended the essence of MacIntyre’s critique of management, this paper sketches a MacIntyrean approach to management and leadership by highlighting the affinities between MacIntyre’s political philosophy and Greenleaf’s concept of servant leadership.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2016 |
Keywords: | Alasdair MacIntyre,Charismatic leadership,Emotivism,Management history,Servant leadership,Virtue ethics |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > The York Management School |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2019 12:10 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 15:53 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3381-6 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s10551-016-3381-6 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:148908 |
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