Lord Acton and Employment Doctrines: Absolute Power and the Spread of At-Will Employment

This study analyzes the at-will employment doctrine using a tool that encompasses the complementarity of results-based utilitarian ethics, rule-based duty ethics, and virtue-based character ethics. The paper begins with a discussion of the importance of the problem followed by its evolution and curr...

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Authors: Bowman, James S. (Author) ; West, Jonathan P. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2007
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2007, Volume: 74, Issue: 2, Pages: 119-130
Further subjects:B civil service reform
B At-will employment
B Ethical Theory
B Power
B employment doctrines
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