can management ever asipre to be moral?

Answer 1

Why would you think that management is not aspiring to be moral? Listen to the likes of Gates, Jobs, and Buffett, they have distinct and deliberate moral intentions and purposes. Obviously many don't but perhaps you subscribe to the notion that all supersuccessful businessmen got where they got by lying, cheating, and stealing. If you believe business and economics in general is a zero-sum game, in that no one gains unless someone else loses, then management will always be exploiting and evil. The world in reality isn't that way.

Answer 2

Great question! The science of management at it's core aspires to be moral. In theory, companies are to be good corporate neighbors and set the example of what it is to be "good" or moral. Corporate visions get clouded when the human factor is thrown in and overzealousness, greed, self agrandizement, and a win at all costs attitude, to mention a few reasons, overtakes mission statements, vision and profit. Honesty, integrity, and character are in short supply today. Management can aspire to be moral and there are several companies that are "moral". However, in today's world, sadly, moral is what is moral to you. Post-modernism allows no tolerance for absolutes. A manager may consider defending his company's bottom line "moral" and he/she could be willing to be unethical i.e., "immoral" in the way they pursue profits. Insider trading anyone? You've come up with a great question, that can be debated forever! As a whole, you won't find management pursuing being moral or ethical as much as profitable. They've sold out for the dollar. But like I said, there are those companies that still strive to achieve a higher standard.

Answer 3

GREAT businesses only grow to wordly status because of founders who are instinctly in touch with morality. These days, many new businesses claim to be "family friendly" or the like, and yet it is those same companies who pressure their employees to work 60-70 hours a week to increase the profit margin, all in hopes of that "BIG BONUS". In the end only thier families pay the price. Morality is an easy issue, it's just hard to find real people who are willing to use it as a compass for their life much less for their business.

Answer 4

Management can aspire to be "moral" but being "moral" presupposes a measure of what is "moral" and what is "immoral". Since, in my view, most management's philosophy's are various shades of "utilitarianism",(it is the management that determines what is moral or immoral...!).

The only way one can judge if one's act is "moral" is on the basis of anti-thesis, and the only way that is possible is through an "Absolute". Should a person or organizations act be moral or immoral based on the opinion of the doer of the act, then the doer has the option of defining any act he/she commits as "moral".

Answer 5

No. "Corruption is what keeps us safe..."
That line was from the movie 'Syriana'. There are some idiots who actually believe that crap.