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

by Geoff Moore

The second characteristic of a virtuous manager follows from all that we have said so far about the framework which MacIntyre offers us. Managers should be concerned about the core practice of the organization and about those who practice their craft there. This is for several fairly obvious reasons. First, the organization as a practice-institution combination depends on the core practice—without it, there quite simply is no organization. Thus, there is an instrumental reason for maintaining this concern for the core practice. And this continued engagement with and concern for the core practice may be fairly easy for someone like Elaine who has grown up with the practice and continues to be involved directly with it.