Ethics & Organizations

Ethics 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 Organization addresses the questions that these and other developments raise for the study of management and organizations, from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book will be of value to advanced level students and academics engaged in analyzing the moral, political and ethical dimensions of organization theory and organizational practice.

Zusammenfassung
Ethics 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 Organization addresses the questions that these and other developments raise for the study of management and organizations, from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book will be of value to advanced level students and academics engaged in analyzing the moral, political and ethical dimensions of organization theory and organizational practice.

Inhalt

Introduction - 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 Contributions of Poststructuralism and Posthumanism - Hugh Willmott
Business Ethics - Hugo Letiche
(In-)Justice and (Anti-)Law - Reflections on Derrida, Bauman and Lipovetsky
PART TWO: PRACTICES
Is HRM Ethical? Can HRM Be Ethical? - Karen Legge
Marketing and Moral Indifference - John Desmond
Ethics and Accounting - Rolland Munro
The Dual Technologies of Self
Governance and Regulation - Glenn Morgan
An Institutionalist Approach to Ethics and Organizations
The Natural Environment, Organization and Ethics - Stephen Fineman
PART THREE: IMPLICATIONS
Ethical Codes and Moral Communities - Tony J Watson
The Gunlaw Temptation, the Simon Solution and the David Dilemma
Management Education - Peter Anthony
Ethics versus Morality
Against Ethics - Martin Parker