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Building the Knowledge Base of Nonprofit Management:
A Searchable Database
Ethical Dimensions of Nonprofit Administration
Abstract
This article explains why ethics is a necessary and powerful aspect of organizational life and why the managerial ethics of executive responsibility is arguably the most important part of management. While ethical considerations in manage¬ment are largely the same regardless of organizational type, there are some unique characteristics of nonprofit organiza¬tions that create a special ethical context for the nonprofit administrative role. This uniqueness, the immensity and or¬ganizational complexity of the American nonprofit sector, and the importance of ethical considerations in an increas¬ingly amoral society, are grounds for giving more attention to this topic
Journal
(1992)
vol3
no2
pages199
Categories
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Public Policy, Law, and Ethics
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Ethics
