L’etica degli strumenti e il lavoro manageriale

The organizations: contexts where work takes place, or where there is fight, at various levels, so that people work possibly together and reach targets. The instruments of ethics: the charter of the values, declarations in principle and evaluation systems more or less coherent, ethic codes and research of congruent behaviour. The ethics of instruments: to ensure that the instruments for the implementation of the organizational ethics do not have too diverted, bureaucratised, institutionalised, useless lifes. And also paradoxical: as far as practically the negation of the values established in principle are concerned. In business it’s easy to wander off the proper path, because professional standards are a vocational option, not part of a territory. And there are standards difficult to code, unavoidably imperfect, often incomplete, inadequate and redundant in reverse order with regard to the requirements of the concrete case. Though useful, often essential.;

Fernando Salvetti, L’etica degli strumenti e il lavoro manageriale in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO " 106-107/2007, pp 72-86, DOI: