Filipino Virtue Ethics and Meaningful Work

A number of paradigms have been proposed to understand the sources of meaningful work, but non-Western approaches have attracted little attention. This study aims to make a theoretical contribution toward understanding meaningful work from a virtue-ethics framework that is culturally meaningful and relevant to Filipino realities and their unique historical heritage. It develops a paradigm for a Filipino view of meaningful work that could guide both researchers and practitioners in business ethics by explaining what makes work meaningful, justifying why it is important, and presenting examples of concrete measures that management can utilize to promote meaningful work in the Philippine workplace.