ETHICS AND MORALITY IN COOPERATIVES: A POSSIBILITY?

Abstract

What is ethics and morality? And how they should act toward an effective cooperative
management guided by principles and values that are by nature itself? In this study,
these are the guiding questions to be discussed and reflected through a review of the
topic, within the processes of intervention, applied to cooperatives, about how one
should act and how they can understand the action of others, from the perspective of
Oliveira and Freitag. Among the findings, posits that ethics and morality may be a
possibility in cooperative management since it contained the true values that are
intrinsic to cooperatives. Search then an appropriate cooperative management prioritize
the training of associates to recognize themselves as owners, users of this collective way
of organizing and also form the external managers to understand and address the needs
that arise as to convey the scale cultivate social and democratic values that underlie the
practice of cooperatives, reducing or even avoiding the various individual interests at
stake.