Management and moral capital: The corporation as a moral community

This article examines the morally corrosive influence of management practices that destroy meaning in the workplace – and proposes a framework for building better organisations.

Management and moral capital: The corporation as a moral community

Jules GoddardLondon Business School

The Fortune1 00 Best Companies to Work For, the yearly guide to firms that are both successful and provide satisfying working environments, underlines the fact that many companies are neither. This article examines the morally corrosive influence of management practices that destroy meaning in the workplace.

A number of studies have shown that ordinary people in extraordinary organisations invariably outperform extraordinary people in ordinary organisations. While acknowledging the importance of context to performance, this startling thought leaves unanswered the intriguing question: "What is it...

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