Beautiful Lies — Values in Practice

Ole Thyssen
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Ole Thyssen: Copenhagen Business School

Chapter 12 in Business Ethics and Organizational Values, 2009, pp 230-242 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract When the idea of using values in organizations was introduced in the 1980s, the aim was normative and idealistic. Values were something which organizations not only could but ought to employ in order to become better in all meanings of the term — better at honouring their purposes, better at motivating employees, customers and users, and better at creating profits. Values were viewed as a tool that could be used to continuously excite the organization to minimize the difference between the demands of the values and the organizational reality.

Keywords: Business Ethic; Organizational Reality; Moral Expert; Continual Effort; Political Consumer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230250932_12

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