Ebook: Enriching Business Ethics
- Tags: Business/Management Science general, Political Science general, Ethics
- Series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry
- Year: 1990
- Publisher: Springer US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Over thirty years ago, Alfred North Whitehead wrote: "If America is to be civilized, it has to be done (at least for the present) by the business class who are in possession of the power and the economic resources . . . . If the American universities were up to their job, they would be taking business in hand and teaching it ethics and professional standards. " * To the intellectual elites of his time, there was something of a minor in Whitehead's view. Few of them saw business as a civilizing force heresy and even fewer, feeling that business was not to be tamed, relished the role of the lion tamers. Not many today doubt Whitehead's wisdom. Organiza tions of wealth and power have accepted their corporate social responsibili ties, and universities have launched major efforts to provide ethical instruc tion for business personnel. So far as the scholars are concerned, they quickly came to realize the difficulty of an undertaking that seeks to redefine and apply moral criteria to a very complex corporate world. Philosophers, in particular, have learned (or perhaps have relearned) how their speculations on ethics must take into account the "living ethic" expressed in the American culture and here anthropologists, sociologists, and theologians were needed to provide an expertise that the moral manuals did not.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Business Ethics....Pages 3-38
Front Matter....Pages 39-41
Jewish Ethical Perspectives toward Business....Pages 43-62
Christian Religious Traditions....Pages 63-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-90
Ideals of Competition and Today’s Marketplace....Pages 91-112
America’s Neopluralism....Pages 113-143
Unions in the Nineties....Pages 145-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-186
King Midas in America....Pages 187-212
Business Students and Ethics....Pages 213-231
Front Matter....Pages 233-234
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome....Pages 235-257
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Retrospection....Pages 261-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-286
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Business Ethics....Pages 3-38
Front Matter....Pages 39-41
Jewish Ethical Perspectives toward Business....Pages 43-62
Christian Religious Traditions....Pages 63-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-90
Ideals of Competition and Today’s Marketplace....Pages 91-112
America’s Neopluralism....Pages 113-143
Unions in the Nineties....Pages 145-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-186
King Midas in America....Pages 187-212
Business Students and Ethics....Pages 213-231
Front Matter....Pages 233-234
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome....Pages 235-257
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Retrospection....Pages 261-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-286
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