Leadership and Business Ethics (Issues in Business Ethics Book 25)

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. Front Matter....Pages I-XVI Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 1-12 Business Ethics: Europe Versus America....Pages 13-27 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 Using Discernment to Make Better Business Decisions....Pages 31-38 The Virtuous Manager: A Vision for Leadership in Business....Pages 39-56 Business Ethics Beyond the Moral Imagination: A Response to Richard Rorty....Pages 57-79 Socratic Questions and Aristotelian Answers: A Virtue-Based Approach to Business Ethics....Pages 81-101 Inspirational Leadership in Business and Other Domains....Pages 103-115 People in Business: Context and Character....Pages 117-129 Responsible Leadership beyond Managerial Rationality: The Necessity of Reconnecting Ethics and Spirituality....Pages 131-147 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 How Losing Soul Leads to Ethical Corruption in Business....Pages 151-163 Corporate Culture and Organisational Ethics....Pages 165-176 Values in the Marketplace: What Is Ethical Retailing?....Pages 177-193 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 The Marketing of Human Images as a Challenge to Ethical Leadership....Pages 197-210 Alternative Business Ethics: A Challenge for Leadership....Pages 211-227 The UN Global Compact: The Challenge and the Promise....Pages 229-249 Corporate Citizenship: The Dark-Side Paradoxes of Success....Pages 251-268 Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Moral Responsibility, and Systems Thinking: Is There a Difference and the Difference it Makes....Pages 269-289 Back Matter....Pages 291-328 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. 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 a villagea (TM) and what were once thought of as externali Edited By Gabriel Flynn. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.