This book is open access under CC-BY license. Moral dilemmas are a pervasive feature of working life. Moral Reasoning at Work offers a fresh perspective on how to live with them using ethics and moral psychology research. It argues that decision-makers must go beyond compliance and traditional...

The aim of this book is to examine how technical and institutional factors affect the responsiveness of public and private organisations to a change in accreditation standards, with specific reference to the vocational educational and training (VET) sector and ethical standards. In particular,...

This book addresses questions surrounding the feasibility of a global approach to ethical governance of science and technology. The emergence and rapid spread of nanotechnology offers a test case for how the world might act when confronted with a technology that could transform the global...

Economic Development, Wealth Creation and Africa -- The Bottom Billion and What We Can Do to Help -- A Rich Concept of Wealth Creation Beyond Profit Maximization and Adding Value -- Cultural Values, Economic Growth and Development -- Black Economic Empowerment and the Post-Apartheid South...

This monograph is based on qualitative and inductive research. All the cases treated in it are based on current events and try to find the common aspects and basic rules that govern the wrongdoing to the minority shareholders. In the four cases of US, French and Israeli companies, most of them...

Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction - Spirituality and Management; Laszlo Zsolnai -- Part 1 Spirituality: East and West -- Spirituality as the Context for Leadership; Peter Pruzan -- Spirit-centered, Rajarshi Leadership; S.K. Chakraborty -- Spirituality...

This book addresses the debate usually tagged as being about ’markets in human body parts’ which is antagonistically divided into pro-market and anti-market positions. The author provides a set of propositions about how to approach this and shows a way out of the concrete impasse of it....

In Umbruchzeiten steigt die Relevanz von Werten als Orientierung schaffendes Mittel. Von Entscheidern wird erwartet, Verantwortung zu übernehmen, Vertrauen in Politik und Wirtschaft wiederherzustellen. Es sollte Gewissheit darüber bestehen, dass verinnerlichte Werte die Grundlage des Handelns...

1. Introduction: Ethics and Justice -- 2. Ethics -- 3. On "Corporate Responsibility" -- 4. Environmental Responsibility and Corporate Culture: the Prerequisites for Self-Regulation -- 5. Responsibility “Beyond the Law” -- 6. Firm Integrity and Spheres of Justice -- 7. A Final Thought on...