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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... traditional, non-western and non-industrial mores of local communities. Globalization has challenged our parochial management thinking. This collection of essays helps to refocus our conceptual work about commerce and business practices ...
... traditional, non-western and non-industrial mores of local communities. Globalization has challenged our parochial management thinking. This collection of essays helps to refocus our conceptual work about commerce and business practices ...
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... tradition,at leastsince Alexis de Tocqueville published De la D ́emocratie en Am ́erique in 1835 (Volume 1) and 1840 (Volume 2). Although he focuses on the United States, he inevitably makes frequent comparisons between this country and ...
... tradition,at leastsince Alexis de Tocqueville published De la D ́emocratie en Am ́erique in 1835 (Volume 1) and 1840 (Volume 2). Although he focuses on the United States, he inevitably makes frequent comparisons between this country and ...
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... tradition of corporate community involvement and corporate philanthropy programmes. Actually, businesses have played an active role in the development of many US communities. In Europe, although there are a number of companies with ...
... tradition of corporate community involvement and corporate philanthropy programmes. Actually, businesses have played an active role in the development of many US communities. In Europe, although there are a number of companies with ...
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... tradition of public authorities supporting social causes. European cultural legacy can explain this presence of the state in issues related to business ethics and CSR. Feudalism in the Middle Ages, the absolute monarchies and the modern ...
... tradition of public authorities supporting social causes. European cultural legacy can explain this presence of the state in issues related to business ethics and CSR. Feudalism in the Middle Ages, the absolute monarchies and the modern ...
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... tradition in the USA, in line with John Locke's approach, which had an enormous influence in shaping the American Constitution. At the same time, the philanthropic actions of private individuals and to some extent, of business ...
... tradition in the USA, in line with John Locke's approach, which had an enormous influence in shaping the American Constitution. At the same time, the philanthropic actions of private individuals and to some extent, of business ...
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.