Saturday, April 19, 2014

Demise of Teamwork and Rise of Free Agent Nation

This is a stunning review of our course ethical concepts and how they have helped you to gain deeper ethical understanding and foundations.  Your humble servant here wants to comment on two items from your analysis.  The first is teamwork.  Yes, it is desirable; more and more, we live in a "free agent nation" in which people change jobs on average every 3-5 years.  This lack of job tenure for more and more people undermines teamwork.  More and more, we are "hired guns" who come and go.  This turnover undercuts teamwork.  What will replace it is coaching of key staff who add value and therefore deserve investment by management.  It will be "key stars" not "teams" that will challenge ethics in the future.  Also, you touch on Immanuel Kant, who, as you point out, argues against "double standards."  Where double standards exist, exploitation exists.  Kant called this the "Categorical Imperative" in ethics.  Thank you for including him in your discussion.  Good job.  Dr. Rux

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