Heroism, self-abnegation and the liberal organization

Chester Barnard's classic, The Functions of the Executive, is premised on an Aristotelean conception of human nature. This reliance ramifies throughout his analysis of the cooperative basis of human organizations. Perhaps its most important manifestation appears in his definition of willing coo...

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Main Author: Vasillopulos, Christopher (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 1988
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 1988, Volume: 7, Issue: 8, Pages: 585-591
Further subjects:B Human Organization
B Organizational Effectiveness
B Human Nature
B Economic Growth
B Human Participant
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Summary:Chester Barnard's classic, The Functions of the Executive, is premised on an Aristotelean conception of human nature. This reliance ramifies throughout his analysis of the cooperative basis of human organizations. Perhaps its most important manifestation appears in his definition of willing cooperation as self-abnegation. For by so removing cooperation from its utilitarian and contractarian assumptions, he avoids the well known criticisms of those assumptions while retaining his fundamental liberalism. Put positively, self-abnegation informs Barnard's liberalism with an heroic dimension. This, in turn, enables him to provide an account of organizational effectiveness which is at once realistic and optimistic and which values its unique human participants.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/BF00382790