The civility of an organization and its policies of distributive justice are founded upon its moral and ethical beliefs. This dissertation examines compensation from a meta-ethical perspective. The author takes a critical view of traditional capitalism and compensation as it is generally understood, and how these business norms are suppressing moral obligation and reciprocity. Progressive capitalism's restorative response to traditional capitalism multiplies managers' ethical and moral dilemmas as they work to ensure all stakeholders win. The key idea is that the philosophical search for an ideal form of distributive justice has heretofore been a dance around the non-linear dynamics of ideological polarities. Ideological polarities create ethical and moral compensation dilemmas around the competition-cooperation dynamic. These wicked compensation problems require a new way of thinking and resolving compensation issues. This dissertation puts forth a pragmatic democratic approach to resolving these dilemmas.;The context of the study is the redevelopment of the compensation system at XtremeEDA Corporation. The primary research question is, How has XtremeEDA Corporation utilized wicked problem resolution methods to develop and incorporate dynamic compensatory justice in its compensation system? XtremeEDA is a for-profit computer engineering services firm. The CEO is the interventionist, researcher, and author of this dissertation. The research project employed a mixed method approach and used critical ethnography and critical discourse analysis as the primary methodologies supplemented by various techniques. Instrumenting these methodologies with the Quadraxiol Grid meta-ethical framework enabled the strengths of each methodology to be linked together. This approach was crucial as the nature of the problem required a moral and ethical framework to locate discourse ideologically and resolve polarities dynamically. The approach yielded interesting and practical results. Its most provocative finding includes an intriguing assertion that the human brain has geometric properties that show up in the competition-cooperation dynamic. This dynamic appears to be balanced when it is oscillating around the Golden Ratio.
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