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The Heart of A Business Ethic
The Heart of A Business Ethic
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Over the past several years a cascade of corporate scandals have erupted. Savings and provisions for retirement have shrunk drastically. Jobs have been lost. One of the world's largest and best-known accounting firms is gone. Ordinary people have been hurt and they have lost confidence in business leaders. The on-going public debate over business ethics and corporate reform points to one common conclusion: Things cannot be corrected by simply adding more laws and new rules. The solution will come from high moral leadership.
The Heart of A Business Ethic is based on the Hansen-Wessner Lectureship Series established by the ServiceMaster Foundation to consider the source of moral authority and ethical behavior in business. The eight lectures in this series were presented at major universities in the U.S. and Britain, and brought together some of the most distinguished business experts of our time. What they have to say is important for business teachers and students, and business leaders at every level.
The scandals at Enron, Tyco and others have generated many books on business ethics, but none offer the expertise or breadth of thinking that this volume does. The Heart of A Business Ethic is useful to professors, students, and practitioners who not only want to understand what has happened, but who also want to think through the basis for a new standard of morality in business.
Table of Contents
0 Foreword
1 The Business of Values
2 Corporate Soulcraft in the Age of Brutal Markets
3 Reflections on Some Preserving Principles of Capitalism in a Democracy
4 The International Vocation of American Business
5 The Role of the Business Corporation as a Moral Community
6 The Nature of the Exercise of Authority
7 The Integration of Faith in the Workplace
8 Business Ethics in Skeptical Times
9 Afterword
10 Index
Product details
| Published | Sep 08 2005 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9780761831884 |
| Imprint | University Press of America |
| Dimensions | 219 x 148 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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