Virtue at Work: Ethics for Individuals, Managers, and Organizations

by Geoff Moore

This indicates that internal goods are of two kinds. First, there is the good product or, we may add in an organizational context, the good service. The internal good of the practice of architecture in which Elaine is engaged is the provision of excellent buildings: fit for purpose, aesthetically pleasing, congenial to their surroundings, and as ecologically sustainable as possible. Second, however, there is the internal good which involves the perfection of the practitioners engaged in the craft or practice. Now ‘perfection’ may seem to be a rather strong term, and we might more naturally think of this as to do with the development and flourishing of individuals. The point, however, is that it is by pursuing excellence in the products or services that, in that very process, individual practitioners are also developed as people.