Business Ethics as Practice : Ethics as the Everyday Business of Business

Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: the dissociation of ethics from practice -- The typical ethics management process and its limitations -- Motivation: fear of penalty and ethical risk -- Formulation -- Integration -- Ethics training and communication -- The ethics and compliance function -- Evaluation -- Ethics and performance management systems -- Willingness to report misconduct -- Reporting practices -- Responding to the current state of organizational ethics programs -- 2 Reconsidering approaches to moral reasoning -- Utilitarianism -- Non-consequentialist approaches -- Deontology -- Rawls' justice as fairness -- Contractarian theories in business ethics -- Communitarianism -- Some responses to the problematic features of many approaches to ethics -- Towards new perspectives -- The continental tradition -- 3 Moral agency reconsidered -- Rethinking our understanding of how individuals make sense of things -- Rethinking "rationality" from the perspective of embodied morality -- Beyond isolation: moral agency in organizations -- Knowing, thinking, deciding in organizational settings -- 4 Reconsidering values -- Common misconceptions -- Redefining "values -- Values as life-enhancing -- Values as emotional -- Values as tropical (trope-like) and rhetorical -- Values as relational and responsive -- Values as congruence -- Values as emergent properties of complex adaptive systems -- 5 Leadership and accountability -- Ethical leadership -- Leaders and leadership from a broader perspective -- Redefining leadership: contemporary perspectives -- Following one's passions -- Having a values-driven orientation -- Eliciting and appreciating contention -- Wisdom and humility -- Fostering collaboration -- Charisma, rhetoric and motivation.