Format:
1 online resource (322 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780521877459
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9780511454448
Series Statement:
Business, Value Creation, and Society Series
Content:
In Business Ethics as Practice, Mollie Painter-Morland urges us to take business ethics seriously by reconsidering the role of ethics management within organizations. She redefines the typical seven-step ethics management program from within - challenging the reader to reconsider what is possible within each aspect of this process
Note:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: the dissociation of ethics from practice -- The typical ethics management process and its limitations -- Motivation: fear of penalty and ethical risk -- Formulation -- Integration -- Ethics training and communication -- The ethics and compliance function -- Evaluation -- Ethics and performance management systems -- Willingness to report misconduct -- Reporting practices -- Responding to the current state of organizational ethics programs -- 2 Reconsidering approaches to moral reasoning -- Utilitarianism -- Non-consequentialist approaches -- Deontology -- Rawls' justice as fairness -- Contractarian theories in business ethics -- Communitarianism -- Some responses to the problematic features of many approaches to ethics -- Towards new perspectives -- The continental tradition -- 3 Moral agency reconsidered -- Rethinking our understanding of how individuals make sense of things -- Rethinking "rationality" from the perspective of embodied morality -- Beyond isolation: moral agency in organizations -- Knowing, thinking, deciding in organizational settings -- 4 Reconsidering values -- Common misconceptions -- Redefining "values -- Values as life-enhancing -- Values as emotional -- Values as tropical (trope-like) and rhetorical -- Values as relational and responsive -- Values as congruence -- Values as emergent properties of complex adaptive systems -- 5 Leadership and accountability -- Ethical leadership -- Leaders and leadership from a broader perspective -- Redefining leadership: contemporary perspectives -- Following one's passions -- Having a values-driven orientation -- Eliciting and appreciating contention -- Wisdom and humility -- Fostering collaboration -- Charisma, rhetoric and motivation
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Redefining authenticity and diversity -- Fostering trust and confidence -- Interdependence -- Rethinking leadership and accountability within complex organizational systems -- 6 Reconsidering ethics management -- Rethinking ethics management programs -- Motivation -- Formulation -- Integration -- Institutionalizing systemic leadership -- The cross-functional task team -- Integrated sustainability -- Ethics and compliance offices or functions within organizations -- Training and communication -- Ethics training in organizations -- Communication -- Policies, discipline and reward -- Policies -- Performance management -- Ongoing assessments and reporting -- The way forward -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Painter-Morland, Mollie Business Ethics As Practice Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2008 ISBN 9780521877459
Language:
English
Keywords:
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