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Vice and Virtue in Everyday (Business) Life

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This paper describes how a family of ethical concepts can be taught through focusing on how values play out at the most basic level – in the sphere of everyday business interactions. If our goal is to create an "ethical business culture," it makes sense to attend to our treatment of one another in the simplest, and most frequently occurring of duties. The paper examines the kinds of daily interactions common to many business settings – attending meetings, sharing information, taking phone calls, utilizing common resources – and demonstrates how these practices set up encounters in which lived moral values can make a difference in the quality of life, morale, and company productivity.

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  1. Chowan College Center for Ethics, Chowan College, Box 1848, Murfreesboro, NC, 27855, U.S.A.

    Douglas Chismar

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Chismar, D. Vice and Virtue in Everyday (Business) Life. Journal of Business Ethics 29, 169–176 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006467631038

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