Ethics and Empowerment is aimed at providing tactical, high-level solutions to today's business and professional challenges. Gathering together experts in various fields, this line of titles will benefit professionals as they face the challenges of the ever-changing business climate. Amid the burgeoning literature on business ethics, this book ......
This work aims to prepare readers to make sound ethical decisions in multi-cultural business situations. It features an introduction to background on the cultural sciences and analytical approaches from the field of ethics.
Ethics and Organization provides a rich and valuable overview of an increasingly important issue for management and organizations in contemporary society. Debates about equal opportunities, environmental responsibility, consumer redress and corporate governance have given ethics a prominent place in the study of organizations in their social and natural environments. Within the organization, new management styles that seek to energize employees by manipulating their beliefs have highlighted the moral-ethical principles at issue in contemporary management. At the same time debates around postmodernism and relativism have moved ethics to a new centrality in contemporary social theory. Ethics and Organization addresses the questions that these and other developments raise for the study of management and organizations, from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book will be of value to advanced level students and academics engaged in analyzing the moral, political and ethical dimensions of organization theory and organizational practice.
Provides the rationale, conceptual framework and practical tools needed to build and sustain management and organization integrity over time. Individual chapters are devoted to ethical planning, leadership and control. Twenty-eight ethics mini cases relate to various functional areas of management including finance, marketing, HRM, law, technology, operations, public policy and the environment.
How Literature and Films Can Stimulate Ethical Reflection in the Business World
The business world is often shown as a world where everyone knows the price of everything, yet appreciates the value of nothing. It is the moral imagination that allows people to be aware of the dimensions of a situation. This text shows how society might learn to develop moral imagination.
Noted ethicist Childs believes that core Christian commitments can illuminate all economic activity, ground a dialogical approach to ethics and decision-making, and infuse character into corporate culture. Topics such as competition, regulation, environment, risk, truthtelling, whistle-blowing, leadership, discrimination, affirmative action, and ......
This book provides ways of thinking about information and the new responsibilities engendered by its acquisition, processing, storing, dissemination and use. It offers a set of concepts, methods, arguments and illustrations designed to sharpen the reader's ethical focus. Organized into three sections, the first provides a conceptual background for the book as a whole. The second part focuses on fundamental concepts about ethics and includes descriptions of the process of ethical thinking and a range of theories and principles that can be used in ethical situations. In the final part, the concepts of information and the need for ethics and ethical thinking are applied to the various levels of the social system to which they pertain - individual and professional, organizational and societal or systemic.
