Patricia H. Werhane

ThinkersBusiness ethicist

Works

  • Moral Imagination and Management Decision-Making, Oxford University Press, 1999

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Known for

A business ethicist who argued that managers fail ethically less often from bad intent than from a narrow mental model of their situation. Moral imagination, in her account, is the ability to step back from the roles and frames one has taken for granted, see the situation from the other parties' positions, and imagine alternatives that are both workable and morally justifiable.

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