Business Ethics

This book examines ethics in business practices. It offers comparative and developmental perspectives on the role of business in the global and the Indian context, focusing in particular on cases where such businesses are actively engaged.

Business ethics is understood in a comprehensive and differentiated sense, as in recent years it has evolved under the influence of globalization. The present book examines inclusive growth, which includes more than just poverty alleviation and seeks to address the problem of equity through the enhancement of opportunities for all parties. This conforms to the fundamental task of business ethics, which is to enhance the ethical quality of decision-making and actions taken at all levels of business, i.e., at the personal (micro-), organizational (meso-), and systemic (macro-) levels and thus extending the narrow notion of business ethics as a niche for managers with good intentions. In the real world of competition and coordination, various situations produce various tradeoffs that the three pillars of the economy, i.e., Business, Government and Society have to pursue for their survival and sustenance. In this book, we look into many such case studies in which the strength of one component leads to a benefit for one of the other components and a detriment for the other, thus causing an imbalance between the three pillars. This book will be equally valuable to students, philosophers, decision-makers in business and policy-makers at large.

Takes a comprehensive look at ethics in business practices Examines theories such as teleology, deontology etc. and uses Buddhist, Jain and Vedanta philosophies to understand business ethics Offers comparative and developmental perspectives on the role of business in the global and the Indian context, focusing in particular on cases where such businesses are actively and purposefully engaged

Autorentext

Dr. Ananda Das Gupta has been engaged in teaching and research for more than twenty-five years at different universities and institutes across India and is currently Head of the
Human Resource Development area and Chairperson of the Post Graduate Programme at the Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore, an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode and the Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak.
Dr. Das Gupta did his doctorate as a UGC research Fellow. He has published many papers in various refereed journals and has four books to his credit in the areas of organizational development, strategic human resources management, corporate social responsibility and business ethics. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Business Ethics in Developing Economies, and serves on the Editorial Boards of leading international journals.He is also on the International Editorial Board for Encyclopaedia on Corporate Social Responsibility, published in five volumes by Springer

Inhalt
PART I: Introducing Ethics.- 1. Understanding the Maze.- 2. What Good is a Set of Principles?.- 3. The East and the West.- PART II: Ethics in Business Practice: Functional Areas of Management.- 4. Ethics in Business Practice: Human Resource Management.- 5. Ethics in Business Practice: Marketing Management.- 6. Ethics in Business Practice: Accounting.- PART III.- 7. The Role of Business in Society: Corporate Governance, Social Responsibility and Social Impact Management.- 8. Corporate Social Responsibility.- 9. Social Impact Management.