Business as Usual
Ethics in the Fast-Changing and Complex World of Organizations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20179001 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne de Graaf, Joost Levy |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 123-128 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactional Analysis Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-1537 • E-ISSN: 2329-5244 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1177/036215371104100205 |
| OpenAlex | W1979601896 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 6 |
The authors suggest that, since Eric Berne (1966) defined contract as “an explicit bilateral commitment to a well-defined course of action” (p. 362), bilateral relations seem to dominate thinking about ethics within the transactional analysis community. Ethics, however, deal with human relations in all their complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty. The fast-changing nature of organizations requires that we take into account the complexity inherent in that world. If we do not, today's solutions will create tomorrow's problems. Using what may seem like a simple model in relation to three organizational dilemmas, the authors suggest questions that must be considered in order to deal with ethics within complex organizations. Today's unusual challenges will not be met, if the world—and we are the world!—continues doing business as usual
Ambiguity · Business · Business ethics · Economics · Epistemology · Human relations · Management · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Transactional analysis · Transactional leadership · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |