caa a22 4500 605483043 CHVBK 20210128100429.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2121-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2121-z Dawson David The Business School, University of Gloucestershire, The Park Campus, GL50 2RH, Cheltenham, UK aut Two Forms of Virtue Ethics: Two Sets of Virtuous Action in the Fire Service Dispute? [Elektronische Daten] [David Dawson] There has been increasing interest in the relevance of virtue approaches to ethics over the past 15years. However, debate surrounding the virtue approach in the business, management and organisational studies literature has lacked progress. First, this literature focuses on a narrow range of philosophers, and, second, it has failed to analyse properly the consequences of virtue theory for action in practical settings other than in abstract terms. In order to begin addressing these issues, this paper compares what two virtue frameworks—one focused on virtue in the context of community and the other on individuals as virtuous agents—lead to when evaluating the actions of parties to the 2002-2004 UK Fire Service dispute. The analysis argues that the virtue frameworks proposed by MacIntyre and Slote offer different but complimentary evaluations. Both not only point to potential problems with industrial disputes, but also recognise the legitimacy of action that is based in good motivations and carried out with regard for the virtues. It seems that fire fighters and their immediate supervisors, on the whole, met the conditions of virtue, but that it is open to question if the leaders of the Fire Brigades Union and the Government did the same. The analysis goes on to suggest which modes of negotiation would be acceptable under the virtue frameworks, and the implications for those involved in industrial dispute. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Business ethics nationallicence Employee relations nationallicence Fire fighters nationallicence Industrial action nationallicence MacIntyre nationallicence Negotiation nationallicence Slote nationallicence Strike nationallicence Virtue ethics nationallicence Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/3(2015-05-01), 585-601 0167-4544 128:3<585 2015 128 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2121-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2121-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dawson David The Business School, University of Gloucestershire, The Park Campus, GL50 2RH, Cheltenham, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/3(2015-05-01), 585-601 0167-4544 128:3<585 2015 128 10551