Business Ethics and Organizational Values A Systems Theoretical Analysis

by Thyssen, Ole

• ISBN13: 9780230230354
• ISBN10: 0230230350
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Organizational values are a hot topic as private and public organizations are not only evaluated according to their products and profits, but also according to the circumstances of the product -- labor conditions, materials, risks, human rights and social responsibility. Values are becoming the defining identity of organizations. This book covers this shift.

Author Biography

OLE THYSSEN is a well-known Danish philosopher, who for the last 40 years has published more than 30 books on psychoanalysis, Marxism, systems theory, ethics and aesthetics. He has worked on five Danish universities and is now Professor at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Table of Contents

Functional Subsystems * Forms of Compulsion *  Growth as Inflation of Demands *  What is an Organization? *  Four Systems of the Organization *  Values *  Why Values in Organizations? *  
Changing Values of Labour * Values and Stakeholders *  From Values to Morality to Ethics *  
Values and Accounting *  Beautiful Lies - Values in Practice

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