Individuals, Groups, and Business Ethics: 04 (Routledge Studies in Business Ethics) - Hardcover

Provis, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415891949 ISBN 13: 9780415891943

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Corporate social responsibility has become a heavily discussed topic in business ethics. Identifying some generally accepted moral principles as a basis for discussion, Individuals, Groups, and Business Ethics examines ethical dimensions of our relationships with families, friends and workmates, the extent to which we have obligations as members of teams and communities, and how far ethics may ground our commitments to organisations and countries. It offers an innovative analysis that differentiates amongst our genuine ethical obligations to individuals, counterfeit obligations to identity groups, and complex role-based obligations in organised groups. It suggests that often individuals need intuitive moral judgment developed by experience, reflection and dialogue to identify the individual obligations that emerge for them in complex group situations. These situations include some where people have to discern what their organisations’ corporate social responsibilities imply for them as individuals, and other situations where individuals have to deal with conflicts amongst their obligations or with efforts by other people to exploit them. This book gives an integrated, analytical account of how our obligations are grounded, provides a major theoretical case study of such ethical processes in action, and then considers some extended implications.

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About the Author

Chris Provis studied and taught philosophy, then worked for some years in industrial relations before joining the School of Management at the University of South Australia. Specialising in business ethics, he has published numerous research papers, as well as as Ethics and Organisational Politics (2004).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415891949
• ISBN 13: 9780415891943
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186