TY  - BOOK
AU  - Janie M. Harden Fritz
PY  - 2012
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453909478
TI  - Professional Civility
T2  - Communicative Virtue at Work
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0947-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051259
N2  - Winner of the Everett Lee Hunt Award 2014.  Winner of the NCA Clifford G. Christians Ethics Research Award 2013 from the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research  The crisis of incivility plaguing today’s workplace calls for an approach to communication that restores respect and integrity to interpersonal encounters in organizational life. Professional civility is a communicative virtue that protects and promotes productivity, one’s place of employment, and persons with whom we carry out our tasks in the workplace. Drawn from the history of professions as dignified occupations providing valuable contributions to the human community, an understanding of civility as communicative virtue, and MacIntyre’s treatment of practices, professional civility supports the «practice» of professions in contemporary organizations. A communicative ethic of professional civility requires attentiveness to the task at hand, support of an organization’s mission, and appropriate relationships with others in the workplace. Professional civility fosters communicative habits of the heart that extend beyond the walls of the workplace, encouraging a return to the service ethic that remains an enduring legacy of the professions in the United States.
KW  - respect, employment, attentiveness, service ethic, integrity
LA  - English
ER  -