Ethics & Organizations [Paperback]

Debates about equal opportunities, environmental responsibility, consumer redress and corporate governance have given ethics a prominent place in the study of organizations in their social and natural environments. Within the organization, new management styles that seek to energize employees by manipulating their beliefs have highlighted the moral-ethical principles at issue in contemporary management. At the same time debates around postmodernism and relativism have moved ethics to a new centrality in contemporary social theory.

Ethics and OrgEthics and Organization provides a rich and valuable overview of an increasingly important issue for management and organizations in contemporary society.

Debates about equal opportunities, environmental responsibility, consumer redress and corporate governance have given ethics a prominent place in the study of organizations in their social and natural environments. Within the organization, new management styles that seek to energize employees by manipulating their beliefs have highlighted the moral-ethical principles at issue in contemporary management. At the same time debates around postmodernism and relativism have moved ethics to a new centrality in contemporary social theory.

Ethics and OrgIntroduction - Martin Parker
Ethics, The Very Idea?
PART ONE: THEORIES
Beyond the Fringe? The Strange State of Business Ethics - Tom Sorell
Marxism, Capitalism and Ethics - Edward Wray-Bliss and Martin Parker
Who Do You Think You Are? Feminism, Work, Ethics and Foucault - Joanna Brewis
Towards a New Ethics? The ColC#