1. Reframing Organizations, 3rd ed.

2. Reframing Ethics and Spirit
Chapter 19
Reframing Ethics and Spirit

3. Reframing Ethics and Spirit
Soul and Spirit in Organizations
The Factory: Excellence and Authorship
The Family: Caring and Love
The Jungle: Justice and Power
The Temple: Faith and Significance

4. Soul and Spirit in Organizations
Organizational soul: bedrock sense of identity, clarity about core ideology and values
Core ideology emphasizing “more than profits” key to highly successful firms (Collins and Porras, 1994)
Enron
Rapid shift from pipelines to deal-making produced enormous growth -- for a while
In the process, Enron lost a sense of core identity and values (“lots of smart people, but no wise people”)
Merck
Core purpose: not profit but “preserve and improve human life”
Developed and gave away river blindness drug

5. Table 19.1: Reframing Ethics
Metaphor
Organizational Ethic
Leadership Contribution
Factory
Excellence
Authorship
Extended family
Caring
Love
Jungle
Justice
Power
Temple
`Faith
Significance

6. Conclusion Organizational ethics ultimately need to be rooted in soul
Modern organizations suffer a crisis of meaning and moral authority
Leaders need to hold and model values like excellence, caring, justice, faith