Leadership and Business Ethics [electronic resource] /
Flynn, Gabriel.editor.
This book seeks to contribute to a more adequate coalescence of ethics and business with innovative models for such coalescence, for the mutual benefit of business ethicists, professors teaching in the undergraduate and MBA classroom, corporate executives, and businesspeople. While each of the contributions in this collection is distinct, each invites us to examine our own mind sets about corporate responsibility and the future of free enterprise as Western multinational corporations expand into a global economy. The world has become a ‘village’ and what were once thought of as externalities can no longer be dismissed as not part of the decision equation in business ventures. The alleged separation of business from ethics can no longer be a viable approach, if it ever was, as companies move into alien cultures and affect, both positively and sometimes questionably, traditional, non-western and nonindustrial 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 in this new century of global enterprise.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Business Ethics: Europe Versus America -- Individual Level Business Leadership -- Using Discernment to Make Better Business Decisions -- The Virtuous Manager: A Vision for Leadership in Business -- Business Ethics Beyond the Moral Imagination: A Response to Richard Rorty -- Socratic Questions and Aristotelian Answers: A Virtue-Based Approach to Business Ethics -- Inspirational Leadership in Business and Other Domains -- People in Business: Context and Character -- Responsible Leadership beyond Managerial Rationality: The Necessity of Reconnecting Ethics and Spirituality -- Organizational Level Business Leadership -- How Losing Soul Leads to Ethical Corruption in Business -- Corporate Culture and Organisational Ethics -- Values in the Marketplace: What Is Ethical Retailing? -- Societal Level Business Leadership -- The Marketing of Human Images as a Challenge to Ethical Leadership -- Alternative Business Ethics: A Challenge for Leadership -- The UN Global Compact: The Challenge and the Promise -- Corporate Citizenship: The Dark-Side Paradoxes of Success -- Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Moral Responsibility, and Systems Thinking: Is There a Difference and the Difference it Makes.
This book seeks to contribute to a more adequate coalescence of ethics and business with innovative models for such coalescence, for the mutual benefit of business ethicists, professors teaching in the undergraduate and MBA classroom, corporate executives, and businesspeople. While each of the contributions in this collection is distinct, each invites us to examine our own mind sets about corporate responsibility and the future of free enterprise as Western multinational corporations expand into a global economy. The world has become a ‘village’ and what were once thought of as externalities can no longer be dismissed as not part of the decision equation in business ventures. The alleged separation of business from ethics can no longer be a viable approach, if it ever was, as companies move into alien cultures and affect, both positively and sometimes questionably, traditional, non-western and nonindustrial 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 in this new century of global enterprise.
Business ethics.
Ethics.
Philosophy.
Economic theory.
Business Ethics.
Ethics.
Philosophy, general.
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.
Issues in Business Ethics