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This article attempts to understand and develop the morality of everyday activities in organizations. Aristotle’s concept of phronesis, practical wisdom, is utilized to describe the morality of the everyday work activities at two call centres of an Australian insurance company. The ethnographic data suggests that ethical judgements at the lower level of the organization are practical rather than theoretical; emergent rather than static; ambiguous rather than clear-cut; and particular rather than universal. Ethical codes are of limited value here and it is argued that by developing phronesis members of the organization can improve their capacity to deal with this ethical complexity.
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Nyberg, D. The Morality of Everyday Activities: Not the Right, But the Good Thing To Do. J Bus Ethics 81, 587–598 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-007-9530-1
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