Business Ethics

Professionals who serve children address serious human needs in complex clinical, ethical, and political circumstances. Issues of confidentiality, informed consent, and self-determination become more complicated when clients' rights and choices are...

Drawing upon research from a variety of disciplines, this volume offers a systematic discussion of the issues and assumptions of the corporate responsibility debate. James J. Brummer provides an extensive review of the relevant literature and develops a...

Originally published in 2004, this book offers a fresh approach to understanding responsible business practice. Global protests against multinational companies often give the misleading impression that the interests of multinationals and of peaceful...

Biomedical ethics is a burgeoning academic field with complex and far-reaching consequences. Whereas in Western secular bioethics this subject falls within larger ethical theories and applications (utilitarianism, deontology, teleology, and the like),...

Bioethics, born in the 1960s and 1970s, has achieved great success, but also has experienced recent growing pains, as illustrated by the case of Terri Schiavo. In The Future of Bioethics, Howard Brody, a physician and scholar who dates his entry into the...

Ethical failures are rooted in leadership failure, the lack of a corporate culture in which ethical concerns have been integrated, and unresponsiveness to key organizational stakeholders. This book seeks to enhance our understanding of the causes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874368635Author John W. DienhartFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint ABC-CLIOPublisher ABC-CLIO

A concrete, action-based look at the ways businesses can become sustainable as moving towards a sustainable world becomes more and more important.Book InformationISBN 9780230104051Author Charles WankelFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Palgrave...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645902600Author Lori O'KeeffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Mouseface PublishingPublisher Mouseface PublishingWeight(grams) 635g

Collaborative Research in Organizations leverages and sustains the role of management research while increasing the theoretical development of complex organizational and management issues. The true partnership ideal and emergent inquiry process make...

John Van Maanen introduces qualitative research through examples of its application in organizational research. Each article serves as an exemplar of well-written, substantively focused and theoretically relevant qualitative research. The articles...

It's not that most businesspeople lack moral convictions. Rather, they tend not to voice them and are inattentive when others do. Dr. Bird sees this behavior as moral silence, deafness, and blindness, and, following this analogy to the senses, he argues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313208713Author Saul EngelbourgFormat HardbackPage Count 181Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book explains why moral beliefs can and likely do play an important role in the development and operation of market economies. It provides new arguments for why it is important that people genuinely trust others-even those whom they know don't...

Ethical questions feature prominently on todays cultural and political agendas. The Ethics of Cultural Studies presents an ethical manifesto for Cultural Studies, an exploration of its current ethical and political concerns, and of its future challenges...

This clear and stimulating introductory textbook provides a thorough overview of the subject and illustrates how ethics have a part to play in the day to day business of being a manager.Book InformationISBN 9780826453327Author Roger BradburnFormat...

For decades, corruption in Ethiopia has only been discussed at the margins. Perhaps because many have not experienced corruption as a significant constraint to their lives and businesses, or perhaps because a culture of circumspection has dampened open...

In most countries, parliament has the constitutional mandate to both oversee government and to hold government to account; often, audit institutions, ombuds and anti-corruption agencies report to parliament, as a means of ensuring both their independence...

This is a state-of-the-science book about organizational justice, which is the study of people's perception of fairness in organizations. The volume's contributors, all acknowledged leaders in this burgeoning field, present new theoretical positions,...

The symbolic order of gender in organizations - how gender relations are culturally and discursively produced and reproduced, and how they might be `done' differently, are explored in this book. Silvia Gherardi focuses on the relationship between gender,...

The symbolic order of gender in organizations - how gender relations are culturally and discursively produced and reproduced, and how they might be `done' differently, are explored in this book. Silvia Gherardi focuses on the relationship between gender,...

The ethical concerns of the workplace in the context of the rapid and significant increases in cultural, racial, ethnic and sexual diversity are the focus of this book. Topics covered include moral relativism and diversity, cultural value systems,...

A pragmatic approach to business ethics is argued for in this volume, which demonstrates the usefulness of the approach by applying it to a variety of issues. These issues are broad and far-reaching and include the relations between rational and...

This excellent, pioneering book is a must-read as we enter the new millennium. --David J. Farmer, State University of New York Comprehensive and timely, Postmodern Management and Organization Theory provides a critique of postmodern theory as it...

In this volume, Schwartzman evaluates the range of ethnographic research that has been conducted on organizations. She also examines such important topics as: the roles and methods utilized by organizational ethnographers; the problems and prospects for...

This book provides readers with the practical knowledge needed to plan ethically responsible social and behavioural research. It includes: detailed instructions on development of an effective protocol; methods for handling issues of consent, privacy,...

religious values at the office door. Apartheid was an evil, and business had great power in South Africa. Where there is power, there is also responsibil ity. I prayed about this long and hard. I pushed the companies as much as I thought I could. There...

Organization theory is presently dominated by theories of strategic choice and politics. Managers are seen as exercising a wide choice and maximizing their personal self-interest through complex power struggles. This stimulating volume challenges these...

Managing Organization Deviance draws together contributions written by recognized experts and includes short cases written specifically for this volume. Considered in this book are both micro and macro perspectives of deviance and dysfunctional behavior...

The `organization linkage' concept is relatively new. This book provides a unique and very valuable approach to the study of organizations - how do actions among individuals and groups affect (or not affect) organizations as a whole, and vice versa. This...

This book is the first in a new series designed to facilitate an emergent dialogue around the issues of global change and cooperative potential. Written by an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, it explores how organizational scholarship and...

`Given the currency of the issues and the status of the contributors, this book will be an important foundational source for faculty and doctoral students in the organizations sciences' - Michael Tushman, Harvard University Variations in Organization...

This book demonstrates that a far-reaching shift has occurred in the venture of competition, resulting in a new organizational paradigm, defined as hypercompetition. A complex fabric of new theoretical frameworks, models, strategies, organizational forms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645627817Author Dr Tanjia ColemanFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint Kmd BooksPublisher Kmd BooksWeight(grams) 422g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578573298Author David Thomas SchumannFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Recall Awareness, IncorporatedPublisher Recall Awareness,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313231414Author Hiram Bentley GlassFormat HardbackPage Count 101Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

A growing complacency that stability has been restored in the wake of recent economic turmoil is not just wishful thinking, it is dangerous thinking This book directly confronts uncomfortable questions that many prefer to brush aside: if economists and...

Lapses in the ethical behavior of individuals can seriously and permanently affect the moral health of an organization. In Organizations and Ethical Individualism, Kolenda's edited volume, this complex problem is treated from a multi-dimensional,...

In his Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate Pope Benedict XVI proposed a new humanistic synthesis to realign the economy with its social purpose. The aim of this book is to interpret, comment and develop aspects of the Encyclical Letter which are...

During the last 30 years, finance has increased not only its share of economic activity but also of people's aspirations. This has transformed society by increasingly organizing it around the search for financial efficiency. Is a society based on...