Serving Two Masters: The Contradictory Organization as an Ethical Challenge for Managerial Responsibility
“No one can serve two masters.” This Bible quotation highlights an irreducible contradiction, which echoes numerous organizational settings. This article considers the under-explored ethical implications of paradoxical injunctions created by such a contradiction at the managerial level. Contradictor...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2011
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| In: |
Journal of business ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 101, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-44 |
| Further subjects: | B
Contradictory organizations
B complex organizations B Ethics-as-practice B managerial ethics B Paradoxical injunction B Responsible management B Paradoxant system |
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