Leadership and Business EthicsGabriel Flynn 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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... field over recent decades. A consideration of how the topic has been treated by the Harvard Business Review, the business world's leading professional journal, provides helpful insights into past progress and present challenges. In 1929 ...
... field over recent decades. A consideration of how the topic has been treated by the Harvard Business Review, the business world's leading professional journal, provides helpful insights into past progress and present challenges. In 1929 ...
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... fields as Corporate Social Responsibility ( CSR ) during the past 25 years , starting with North America and Europe . “ In this review , sev- eral factors related to business ethics will be considered , comparing Europe and the USA ...
... fields as Corporate Social Responsibility ( CSR ) during the past 25 years , starting with North America and Europe . “ In this review , sev- eral factors related to business ethics will be considered , comparing Europe and the USA ...
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... field, considers how business ethics operates at the organizational level in companies and corporations. Inspired by John Bogle's book The Battle For The Soul Of Capitalism, Ronald Duska, Professor of Ethics at the American College, USA ...
... field, considers how business ethics operates at the organizational level in companies and corporations. Inspired by John Bogle's book The Battle For The Soul Of Capitalism, Ronald Duska, Professor of Ethics at the American College, USA ...
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... field that is in some ways innovative ; it requires ethicists and businesspeople to think holistically . Robert Audi , Professor of Philosophy and David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics at the Mendoza College of Business ...
... field that is in some ways innovative ; it requires ethicists and businesspeople to think holistically . Robert Audi , Professor of Philosophy and David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics at the Mendoza College of Business ...
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... fields as Corporate Social Responsibility ( CSR ) have undergone considerable development worldwide during the past 25 years , starting with North America and Europe . Several scholars have studied the cur- rent situation of this ...
... fields as Corporate Social Responsibility ( CSR ) have undergone considerable development worldwide during the past 25 years , starting with North America and Europe . Several scholars have studied the cur- rent situation of this ...
Contents
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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 |
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Page 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.
Page 39 - I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
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Page 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,
Page 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.