Business Ethics and Common Sense or Managing Elites

Business Ethics and Common Sense

Author: Robert W W McGe

Many business ethics books take a basically collectivist approach to the subject. They speak in terms of collective rights and interests, the public interest, social justice, the greatest good for the greatest number, and so forth. If individualism is mentioned at all, it is mentioned disparagingly. This book takes a different approach. While some of the contributors to this volume take the more popular collectivist approach, many of them do not. Thus, this book offers a more balanced presentation of business ethics than that found in most books on the subject.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
I	Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics
1	Teaching Business Ethics in an Academic Environment of Mistrust	3
2	Selfishness, Exploitation, and the Profit Motive	19
3	Capitalism and Morality: The Role of Practical Reason	31
4	Business: Myth and Morality	45
5	Ayn Rand's Objectivist Ethics as the Foundation of Business Ethics	67
6	What Is the Public Interest?	89
II	Relationships between the Corporation and Outsiders
7	Are Anticompetitive Practices Unethical?	101
8	To Whom Does the Corporation Owe a Duty?	115
9	Corporate Social Responsibility	137
10	Business Environmental Ethics	153
III	Responsibilities of the Corporation to Insiders
11	Ethical Issues in Acquisitions and Mergers	167
12	Ethics and Affirmative Action - A Managerial Approach	187
13	Ethical Behavior in Labor Relations	197
14	Insider Trading	219
IV	Responsibilities of Employees and the Corporation
15	Conflicts of Interest	233
16	Ethical Dilemmas of Management Accountants	251
17	The Ethics of Computer Activities	271
18	Codes of Ethics	283
	Index	295
	About the Editor and Contributors	301

Interesting textbook: The Reconstruction Presidents or Nationalism

Managing Elites: Socialization in Law and Business Schools

Author: Debra J Schleef

How does one become a member of an elite profession? Managing Elites examines how elites-in-training contest, rationalize, and ultimately embrace their dominant positions in society. Using interviews with law and MBA students, the author shows that becoming elite is not a straightforward process without tensions. Successful socialization outcomes--employment in large corporate law firms or prominent investment banks and consulting firms--require both accomodation iandi resistance to ideologies about achievement and meritocracy.

Handbook of Work and Health Psychology or Technical Managers Handbook

Handbook of Work and Health Psychology

Author: Marc J Schabracq

Workplace health is now recognised as having major legal, financial and efficiency implications for organizations. Psychologists are increasingly called on as consultants or in house facilitators to help design work processes, assess and counsel individuals and advise on change management.
The second edition of this handbook offers a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date survey of the field with a focus on the applied aspects of work and health psychology.
An unrivalled source of knowledge and references in the field, for students and academics, this edition also reflects the need to relate research to effective and realistic interventions in the workplace.

• Editors are outstanding leaders in their fields
• Focuses on linking research to practice
• Over 50ew chapters. New topics include Coping, The Psychological Contract and Health, Assessment and Measurement of Stress and Well-Being, the Effects of Change, and chapters of Conflict and Communication

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Technical Manager's Handbook: A Survival Guide

Author: Melvin Silverman

'The Technical Manager's Handbook' serves as a valuable, cross-method reference to scientists, researchers, engineers, and students who are currently, or are soon to be involved in technical management operations. Managers and would-be managers in quality assurance, manufacturing, administration, and computer manufacturing will also benefit from this volumes accessible and practical exploration.

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Interprets the latest management theories and techniques and suggests how to use them and integrate them in the development of individual management styles. Includes material on dealing with international firms; TQM and ISO 9000; information systems; CAD management; ethics; motivation; and team structures, with chapter summaries, case studies, and questions. For researcher, engineers, and students involved in technical management operations, and managers in quality assurance, manufacturing, administrations, and computer manufacturing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	About the Author
Ch. 1	Technical Management: Who and What We Are	1
Ch. 2	The Manager: Dealing with Yourself - The Most Important Individual	31
Ch. 3	Beginning: Building Your Own Model/Theory	65
Ch. 4	The Whole Organization Design: A Little History, Many Models	85
Ch. 5	The Model Components	115
Ch. 6	People - Basic Building Blocks Concerning Motivation	135
Ch. 7	Putting Theory to Work: Motivation Prescribed	195
Ch. 8	Structures: Description and Prescription Semi-permanent Teams: Functions and Survival Today	217
Ch. 9	Prescriptions for Structures: Temporary Teams	257
Ch. 10	Technology: How We Do Things, Techniques and Systems	307
Ch. 11	Leadership and Ethics: Holding It All Together	349
Ch. 12	Repetitive Decision Systems: Information: Tell Me What's Happening in the Organization	393
Ch. 13	Costs and Measurement: What Do I Need as a Manager?	427
Ch. 14	Getting Things Changed	449
Ch. 15	Speculation on Future Uses and Personal Thoughts	483
	Index	497