Business Ethics

O`Sullivan, Patrick

Business Ethics A Critical Approach: Integrating Ethics Across the Business World - New York Routledge 2017 - 367p

includes index and biblioraphy

Part 1 Introduction .....1 1 Ethics as social critique .....3 2 Levels of Critique: a methodological framework for the study of ethics and morality in business .....22 3 The ethical management of ethics: Fostering ethical behaviour in corporations ....34 Part II Organizational strategy .....47 4 Corporate social responsibility, definitional paralysis and ambiguity ....49 5 The impact of ethics on the issues of organizational Congruence ......60 6 Ethical issues of reification and recognition in HRM: a Critical social theory perspective ......74 7 Private vices, business virtues? The institutional strategy of legitimated online gambling in italy ......86 Part III Finance and economics .....99 8 The ethical and social dimensions of executive compensation ......101 9 The ethics of the banker: Reflections on the banker`s economic and societal functions, or how history requires us to reflect on the role of banks in society .....118 10 Islamic finance revisited: Brief review with the Singapore example ......134 11 Ethical issues in the policy response to the 2008 financial crisis: Moral hazard in central banking and the equity of bailout .....147 Part IV Organizational behaviour ...167 12 Ethics and management the essential philosophical and psychological basis of ethical management driven by a progressive company .......169 13 Mindfulness as a mediator between the effective and the ethical manager ....179 14 A cultural appreciation of diversity of ethical strategies: Examples from european business ......191 15 Employee surveillance and the modern workplace ......206 Part V Marketing and innovation ......221 16 Ethics and marketing .....223 17 Deeper into the consumer`s mind: Market research and ethics ......238 18 Social and societal marketing: applications for public policy markers and companies ......254 19 Designing for a better world ......267 Part VI HRM and employee relations ....285 20 You take the high road .... : analysing the ethical dimensions of high performance work systems .......287 21 Ethical challenges in business coaching ......302 22 Ethical issues for international human resource management: the case of recruiting the family? .....317 23 Competency management: between managerial development and ethical questioning ......332 Part VII The ethical future ......347 14 Epilogue: Towards an ethical future for business? ......349

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