Contemporary Reflections on Business Ethics

by Duska, Ronald F.

• ISBN13: 9781402049835
• ISBN10: 1402049838
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Ronald F. Duska, who began his career as a philosopher, has, over the last 30 years, established himself as one of the leading scholars in the field of business ethics. In the past decade, he has concentrated on ethics in the financial services industry because of his affiliation with The American College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, an institution that specializes in educating financial services professionals. This affiliation gives Duska regular interaction with producers, managers, and top executives in the financial services industry. This book includes a selection of the articles Duska has written throughout the years on ethics, business ethics, teaching ethics, agency theory, postmodernism, employee rights, and ethics in accounting and the financial services industry. The articles reflect Duska's underlying philosophical concerns and their application to the real-world challenges of practitioners'”an overarching method that might be called an Aristotelian common-sense approach to ethical decision making.

Author Biography

Ronald F. Duska, who began his career as a philosopher, has, over the last 30 years, established himself as one of the leading scholars in the field of business ethics. In the past decade, he has concentrated on ethics in the financial services industry because of his affiliation with The American College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, an institution that specializes in educating financial services professionals. This affiliation gives Duska regular interaction with producers, managers, and top executives in the financial services industry. This book includes a selection of the articles Duska has written throughout the years on ethics, business ethics, teaching ethics, agency theory, postmodernism, employee rights, and ethics in accounting and the financial services industry. The articles reflect Duska's underlying philosophical concerns and their application to the real-world challenges of practitioners--an overarching method that might be called an Aristotelian common-sense approach to ethical decision making.

Table of Contents

What is ethics?	p. 3
The why's of business revisited	p. 39
Business ethics : oxymoron or good business?	p. 51
Aristotle : a pre-modern post-modern? : implications for business ethics	p. 67
The religious roots of business ethics	p. 89
Life boat ethics : a problem in economic justice	p. 109
What's the point of a business ethics course?	p. 121
Whistleblowing and employee loyalty	p. 139
Why be a loyal agent? : a systemic ethical analysis	p. 149
Employee rights	p. 171
Ethical issues in financial services	p. 187
The corruption of financial markets : systemic inevitability or aberration?	p. 207
Should mutual fund managers be banned from personal trading?	p. 223
The responsibilities of accountants	p. 233
Financial planning - the new century ethics	p. 245
Epilogue : what's literature to ethics or ethics to literature?	p. 255
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