Management Ethics

1. Auflage Oktober 2004
168 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Management Ethics is a highly accessible and concise introduction to issues and key problems in the area of management ethics.
* Examines the obligations that managers have to their various stakeholders: employees, customers, shareholders, and the community
* Looks at topics at the cutting edge of business ethics, including the ethics of supply chain management, as well as dealing with the press and non governmental agencies
* Considers the concepts of sustainability and triple bottom line accounting
* Includes chapters on stimulating the manager's moral imagination and promoting a unique theory of ethical leadership
1. My Station and Its Duties: The Function of Being a
Manager.
2. Stockholder Management or Stakeholder Management.
3. The Ethical Treatment of Employees.
4. The Ethical Treatment of Customers.
5. Supply Chain Management and Other Issues.
6. Corporate Social Responsibility.
7. Moral Imagination, Stakeholder Theory and Systems Thinking:
One Approach to Management Decision-Making.
8. Leadership.
Index.
Werhane articulately and persuasively hone in on the unique ethical
obligations that guide manager-level decision-making. Management
Ethics delineates the competing pressures on managers and
provides them not only with insights but actual processes for
ensuring accountability for their decisions." Laura
Hartman, DePaul University
"Management Ethics is up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
extremely well-informed. Written from a Kantian stakeholder
perspective, it presents an excellent account of the fundamentals
of management ethics." George Brenkert, Georgetown
University
"Bowie and Werhane combine their diverse experiences and
knowledge to provide an excellent primer in management ethics. They
present the basics of managers' ethics and corporate social
responsibility in a clear and compelling narrative chock-full of
cogent examples and core concepts." Thomas Dunfee, Wharton
School, University of Pennsylvania
Patricia H. Werhane is the Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics in the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, and is Wicklander Professor of Business Ethics at DePaul University. She is the founding editor and former editor-in-chief of Business Ethics Quarterly.