ON THE FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE OF ETHICAL MANAGEMENT - WHY MANAGEMENT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL HUMAN ACTIVITIES

Management is the most fundamental of all human activities. This artic le argues for a new conception of management known as ethical manageme nt (EM). EM leads to a different conception of truth, one that is root ed fundamentally in ethical actions. Because most problems of any impo rtance contain significant barriers to the implementation of actions d esigned to remove the problems, EM is concerned with the discovery, in vention, and adaptation of systems of management that attempt to overc ome the barriers to ethical actions. One such system is the 22 steps o f Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Spirituality not only plays a highly impo rtant role in AA but more generally in EM. Spirituality may in fact be the most important component of all management systems.