The Character strengths in organizations Incubator

It is now common to hear calls for increased attention to character in work organizations as well as other social institutions, from government to education to sport. Character refers to those qualities within individuals that lead them to desire and to pursue the good (Baumrind, 1998). Moral goodness can be regarded as an ungrounded grounder, a value that needs no further justification, but our thesis here is different. Character matters in part because it leads people to do the right thing, and the right thing can be productive and profitable. Not only can nice guys finish first, but they often do finish first, by a number of criteria usually neglected by moral commentators. Our argument is not a cynical replacement of the ethical justification for good character but an additional rationale that legitimizes societal concern with character in an organizational context and how it can be encouraged.