Leadership and Business EthicsGabriel Flynn Springer Science & Business Media, 17/07/2008 - 326 páginas Gabriel Flynn and Patricia H. Werhane This book points to a necessary relationship between ethics and business; the success of such an alliance depends directly on sound business leadership. Without the sort of leadership that upholds the dignity and rights of employees and clients, as well as the interests of shareholders, even the most meticulously prepared ethics statements are destined to founder, as evidenced at Enron and elsewhere. Over the past 30 years or so, since business ethics became established as a discipline in its own right, much progress has been made in the ethical conduct of business at all levels. In short, business people, like politicians, doctors and church leaders, have come to realize that it is not possible to avoid involvement in ethics, for much of what business people do and cannot do may be subject to ethical evaluation. While the history of business ethics as currently practised may be traced to the medieval and ancient periods; our principal concern is with developments in the ?eld over recent decades. A consideration of how the topic has been treated by the Harvard Business Review, the business world’sleadingprofessionaljournal,provideshelpful insights into past progress and present challenges. In 1929, just as business ethics was beginning to evolve, Wallace B. |
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... view that good ethics is good business is a fully adequate or satisfying guide for action.”10 Both of the aforementioned options are rejected as inadequate because neither recognizes the inevitability 2 G. Flynn, P.H. Werhane.
... view that good ethics is good business is a fully adequate or satisfying guide for action.”10 Both of the aforementioned options are rejected as inadequate because neither recognizes the inevitability 2 G. Flynn, P.H. Werhane.
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... actions. These changes are summed up as follows: “It seems to us our respondents are saying that managers facing ethical dilemmas shouldrefer to the familiar maxim, “Would I wantmy family, friends and employees to see this decision and ...
... actions. These changes are summed up as follows: “It seems to us our respondents are saying that managers facing ethical dilemmas shouldrefer to the familiar maxim, “Would I wantmy family, friends and employees to see this decision and ...
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... action.” In challenging “the apparent impregnability and inevitability of the present business ethos” as “grossly immoral”, Dorr sees leadership as the key to change. “In the present situation, there is an obvious need for leadership ...
... action.” In challenging “the apparent impregnability and inevitability of the present business ethos” as “grossly immoral”, Dorr sees leadership as the key to change. “In the present situation, there is an obvious need for leadership ...
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... actions which catch people's imagination, and for the transparency and raw courage which can convince others of one's sincerity. A key aspect of this inspirational leadership is the gift of communication.” Coupled with such powerful ...
... actions which catch people's imagination, and for the transparency and raw courage which can convince others of one's sincerity. A key aspect of this inspirational leadership is the gift of communication.” Coupled with such powerful ...
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... action”, or a set of “objectives”. These statements become, in practice, an ethical code for the company (p. 523). In the same vein, Enderle (1996) noted that while in the USA there is basically one language and it is easy to discuss ...
... action”, or a set of “objectives”. These statements become, in practice, an ethical code for the company (p. 523). In the same vein, Enderle (1996) noted that while in the USA there is basically one language and it is easy to discuss ...
Índice
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Using Discernment to Make Better Business Decisions 31 | 29 |
A VirtueBased Approach | 81 |
Inspirational Leadership in Business and Other Domains 103 | 102 |
Context and Character | 117 |
The Necessity | 130 |
How Losing Soul Leads to Ethical Corruption in Business 151 | 149 |
Corporate Culture and Organisational Ethics | 165 |
The Marketing of Human Images as a Challenge to Ethical Leadership | 197 |
A Challenge for Leadership | 211 |
The Challenge and the Promise 229 | 228 |
The DarkSide Paradoxes of Success | 251 |
Corporate Social Responsibility Corporate Moral Responsibility | 269 |
Bibliography | 291 |
Index | 313 |
What Is Ethical Retailing? | 177 |
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Página 79 - Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, "tradition" should positively be discouraged.
Página 39 - I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
Página 69 - Thus it is difficult for each separate individual to work his way out of the immaturity which has become almost second nature to him.
Página 70 - dare to know," "have the courage, the audacity, to know." Thus Enlightenment must be considered both as a process in which men participate collectively and as an act of courage to be accomplished personally. Men are at once elements and agents of a single process. They may be actors in the process to the extent that they participate in it; and the process occurs to the extent that men decide to be its voluntary actors. A third difficulty appears here in Kant's text, in his use of the word "mankind,
Página 72 - ... in what is given to us as universal, necessary, obligatory, what place is occupied by whatever is singular, contingent, and the product of arbitrary constraints? The point, in brief, is to transform the critique conducted in the form of necessary limitation into a practical critique that takes the form of a possible transgression.