Management Ethics

by Bowie, Norman E.; Werhane, Patricia H.

• ISBN13: 9780631214724
• ISBN10: 0631214720
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-30
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Management Ethics is an indispensable resource and guide to the issues and debates within the ethics of management. It includes examination of: bull; bull;the obligations that managers have to their various stakeholders: employees, customers, shareholders, and the community bull;how managers can meet their obligations bull;the ethics of supply chain management bull;the ethics of dealing with the press and non-governmental agencies bull;the concepts of sustainability and triple bottom line accounting The book culminates with distinctive chapters on stimulating the managerrs"s moral imagination and promoting a unique theory of ethical leadership.

Author Biography

Norman E. Bowie is Elmer L. Andersen Chair in Corporate Responsibility at the University of Minnesota.

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
My Station and Its Duties: The Function of Being a Manager	1	(20)
Stockholder Management or Stakeholder Management	21	(19)
The Ethical Treatment of Employees	40	(21)
The Ethical Treatment of Customers	61	(18)
Supply Chain Management and Other Issues	79	(20)
Corporate Social Responsibility	99	(17)
Moral Imagination, Stakeholder Theory, and Systems Thinking: One Approach to Management Decision-making	116	(23)
Leadership	139	(15)
Index	154