Business ethics : a critical approach : integrating ethics across the business world
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Business ethics : a critical approach : integrating ethics across the business world
Routledge, 2012
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 6 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Events such as Trafigura's illegal dumping of toxic waste in Cote d'Ivoire and BP's environmentally disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have highlighted ethical issues in international business at a time when business leaders, academics and business schools were reflecting on their own responsibilities following the global financial crisis. The scope and scale of the global operations of multinational businesses means that decisions taken in different parts of the world have far reaching consequences beyond the national settings where employees are located or where firms are registered and as such, an awareness of these responsibilities needs to be integrated into all levels and all subjects.
Using four guiding principles - a critical multi-level approach rooted in the tradition of European social theory, a comparative and international perspective, a global rather than just a European or American stand point and engaging with subject-specific issues this book aims to 'mainstream' business ethics into the work of teachers and students in business schools. This comprehensive volume brings together contributions from a range of experts in different areas of business studies thereby facilitating and encouraging a move away from business ethics being a box to be ticked to being an integrated consideration across the business disciplines.
This impressive book brings ethical considerations back to the heart of the business curriculum and in doing so, provides a companion for the progressive business student throughout their university career.
Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction 1. Ethics as Social Critique 2. Levels of Critique: A Methodological Framework for the Study of Ethics and Morality in Business 3. The Ethical Management of Ethics: Fostering Ethical Behavior in Corporations Part II: Organizational Strategy 4. Corporate Social Responsibility: Definitional Paralysis and Ambiguity 5. The Impact of Ethics on the Issues of Organizational Congruence 6. Ethical Issues of Reification and Recognition on HRM: A Critical Social Theory Perspective 7. Private Vices, Business Virtues? The Institutional Strategy to Legitimated Online Gambling in Italy Part III: Finance and Economics 8. The Ethical and Social Dimensions of Executive Compensation 9. The Ethics of the Banker: Reflections on the Banker's Economic and Societal Functions or How History Requires us to Reflect of the Role of Banks in Society 10. Islamic Finance Revisited: A Brief Review with Singapore Example 11. Ethical Issues in the Policy Response to the 2008 Financial Crisis:Moral Hazard in Central Banking and the Equity of Bailout Part IV: Organizational Behaviour 12. Ethics and Management: The Essential Philosophical and Psycological Basis of Ethical Management Driven by a Progressive Company 13. Mindfulness as a Mediator Between the Effective and the Ethical Manager 14. A Cultural Appreciation of Diversity of Ethical Strategies: Examples from European Business 15. Employee Surveillance and the Modern Workplace Part V: Marketing and Innovation 16. Ethics and Marketing 17. Deeper into the Consumer's Mind: Market Research and Ethics 18. Social and Societal Marketing: Applications for Public Policy Makers and Companies 19. Designing for a Better World Part VI: HRM and Employee Relations 20. "You Take the High Road..." Analysing the Ethical Dimensions of High Performance Work Systems 21. Ethical Challenges in Business Coaching 22. Competency Management: Between Managerial Development and Ethical Questioning Part VII: Conclusions 24. Towards an Ethical Future for Business?
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