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Embedding Ethics: Dialogic Partnerships and Communitarian Business Ethics

By: Rob Macklin and Karin Mathison

A Journal Synthesis on Management Philosophy Topics

By: Zoe Regina C. Castro

Submitted to: Dr. Joanne J. Java, CPA

The article envisions and articulate a dialogical, communitarian approach to entrenching

business ethics that needs business ethicists to more instinctively engage with practitioners in
working on and representing the normative criteria that people in organizations use to deal
with moral problems in business. Also, the article explore how self-critique and cross-
disciplinary collaboration in education and teaching might be used by academics to engage
current and future business ethicists, as well as managers, in dialogic partnership.
Communitarianism is a social philosophy that emphasizes the importance of society in
articulating the good, in contrast to theories that emphasize the centrality of the individual.
According to Arjoon (2005), the natural-law communitarian model of business is more in line
with the reality of the human person as a social being and better emphasizes the two major
principles of the world business community to improve economic and social conditions: (1)
respect for human dignity and (2) living and working together for the common good. Also, it is a
theory which holds that each individual should formulate the good on his or her own. Thus, it
examines the ways shared conceptions of the good are formed, transmitted, justified, and
enforced.
Thinking of our discussion about the philosophy of communitarianism, it gives us a clear
picture that organization’s relation to the community is important for the organization’s
success. Community is one of the stakeholders of the organization. Understanding the behavior
and ethical values of employees which greatly influence by the community is an aspect that can
give the organization the edge to create and establish a strong business ethics. Business ethics
are values and ethical practices that guides the way how the organization conduct their
business.
Goodness start within ourselves. Community is important to the organizational
operations. As future HR managers and leaders of the organization, we should be more active
agent of change by embedding reflexive ethics in our business practices. Creating a strong
corporate culture that tend to be an ethical advocate especially in present times where
organization experience lot of ethical challenges. Also, as an educator, I believe just as the
article promotes that we can make and influence embedding ethics to the organization by
incorporating it in our teaching, presentation of the ideas and through research which current
and future ethicist, managers, and business practitioners can utilized in the organization.

“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world” – Albert Camus.