1st Edition
Management Ethics Contemporary Contexts
Ethics has become big business but have businesses become ethical? This is a central question for today’s managers.
Managing ethics is critical in an era characterized by unprecedented corporate power and a myriad of competing ethical traditions. Giving new insights into the understanding of ethics for today’s organization practice and managerial behaviour, this timely volume, edited by well-respected industry authorities, provides an overview and critique of ethics as they relate to contemporary challenges and issues (such as globalization, sustainability, consumerism, neo-liberalism, corporate collapses, leadership and corporate regulation).
This book, an essential read for postgraduate students of business and ethics, is organized around the core question: What are the ethics of organizing in today’s institutional environment and what does this mean for the practice of management and the organization of business? In response to this, the contributors examine ethics as it is deeply embedded in the everyday practice of management.
Interdisciplinary contributions from the fields of sociology, philosophy, management, organization studies and public administration provide unique perspectives, while case studies and real-life examples illustrate the challenges and dilemmas faced in practice. Each chapter has a brief overview and editor’s introduction which skilfully summarizes key points and draws connections between the chapters.
1. Introduction: Questioning the Ethics of Management Practice, Stewart R. Clegg and Carl Rhodes, University of Technology, Sydney.
PART I: Global Issues for Management Ethics
2. The Ethics of Business and the Ethics of Community, Rene ten Bos, University of Nijmegen
3.Globalization Disputes: Markets Attack Ethics … Ethics Break in Markets, Eduardo Ibarra, Autonomous Metropolitan University, Campus Iztapalapa (UAM-I)
4. The Problem With Social Responsibility, Bobby Banerjee, University of South Australia
5. Ethics, Corporate Legal Personality and the Civilization of Management, Robert Van Krieken, University of Sydney
PART II: Management Ethics in Organizations
6. Public Management: Corporate Ethics and Ethics as Knowledge Practice, Michael Muetzeldfelt, Victoria University
7. Leadership Decision Making and Ethical Organizational Culture, Stephen Cohen, University of New South Wales
8. ‘Do The Right Thing’: Understanding Ethics With Actor Network Theory, Robin Usher, RMIT University
9. Management Ethics and Consumers: A Postmodern Perspective, George Ritzer, University of Maryland
10. Conclusion: The Futures of Management Ethics, Stewart R. Clegg and Carl Rhodes, University of Technology, Sydney
Biography
Stewart R. Clegg is Professor of Management at the University of Technology Sydney.
Carl Rhodes is Associate Professor of Management at the University of Technology Sydney.
