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Title: Guiding Principles for Ethical Change Management

Authors: Pamela A. Kennett-Hensel; Dinah M. Payne

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Abstract: Change is omnipresent in business. Business must effect positive change to benefit itself in its mission to provide benefit to society; society must accept positive change to garner the benefits of change and to make possible the changes business prompts. Intensifying the need to understand the role of ethics in effective change management is the failure rate of effective change. Utilizing Aristotelian virtues and Kantian analysis, this article addresses issues related to change management and fills a void in the literature by developing a proposal of change management principles that incorporates the use of these well-established business ethics principles.

Keywords: Ethical change management; Aristotelian virtues; Kantian analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/JBM.2018.141265

Journal of Business and Management, 2018 Vol.24 No.2, pp.19 - 46

Published online: 05 Sep 2024 *