Презентация на тему Business ethicsbusi 1314lecture 11 – knowledge

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What does a manager need to be successful?

should managers know?
Virtue epistemology
Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI

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What do we mean when we say ‘I know’?

I am sure X will happen

I am sure X exists

I understand why X happens
(causal or contingent)

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(Plato): knowledge = justified true belief

belief

(Wittgenstein: possible) I believe X but X is not so.
(Wittgenstein: not possible) I know is but X is not so.

Same mental state, but different communication

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Karl Popper:
Scientific knowledge
is falsifiable

If there is no way to test it,
it is not scientific

There is no ultimate truth,
Only hypotheses that hold until falsified

Example:
the gnome in the box

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Scientific knowledge (theory) vs situated knowledge

Social science

Example:
Trader knowledge about CEO public statements

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Source

assumption

In organisations

Perception

Memory

Logic / reasoning

Accepting views of others

Enquiry

Right measuring tools

Good memory

Sound reasoning

Trust

Research methods

Monitoring of performance

Organisational memory

Rationality

Risks include groupthink

Go find out yourself!

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What is happening outside the organisation?
What is happening inside the organisation?

How to match the two profitably?

What works?

Who else do they need?