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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... .... 57 Paul T. Harper Socratic Questions and Aristotelian Answers: A Virtue-Based Approach to Business Ethics .................................................. 81 Edwin M. Hartman Inspirational Leadership in Business and Other Domains ...
... .... 57 Paul T. Harper Socratic Questions and Aristotelian Answers: A Virtue-Based Approach to Business Ethics .................................................. 81 Edwin M. Hartman Inspirational Leadership in Business and Other Domains ...
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... Questions to Be Considered by a Research Ethics Committee when Approving Clinical Trials Which Involve Genetic Testing (Dublin: Irish College of General Practitioners, 2003), davsmith@rcsi.ie Johan Verstraeten is Professor of Ethics at ...
... Questions to Be Considered by a Research Ethics Committee when Approving Clinical Trials Which Involve Genetic Testing (Dublin: Irish College of General Practitioners, 2003), davsmith@rcsi.ie Johan Verstraeten is Professor of Ethics at ...
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... question of conflict involved in business decisions , referred to above , emerges again in a 1977 essay in the Harvard Business Review , by Steven N. Brenner and Earl A. Molander , entitled “ Is the Ethics of Business Changing ? ” As ...
... question of conflict involved in business decisions , referred to above , emerges again in a 1977 essay in the Harvard Business Review , by Steven N. Brenner and Earl A. Molander , entitled “ Is the Ethics of Business Changing ? ” As ...
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... question “Why be moral?” as part of an effort to address some of the hard ethical questions faced by managers, are dogged by the charge of failing to engage with the world of practice. As Stark comments “Even when business ethicists try ...
... question “Why be moral?” as part of an effort to address some of the hard ethical questions faced by managers, are dogged by the charge of failing to engage with the world of practice. As Stark comments “Even when business ethicists try ...
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... questions and analyses reflecting the complex challenges busi- ness leaders face . [ ... ] Other professional schools have carved out standards that are appropriate for their various professions ; now business schools must have the ...
... questions and analyses reflecting the complex challenges busi- ness leaders face . [ ... ] Other professional schools have carved out standards that are appropriate for their various professions ; now business schools must have the ...
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.