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Business Ethics Journal Review

Monday, 18 February 2013 13:54 administrator
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The Business Ethics Journal Review is a new, peer-reviewed academic journal, aiming to combine the best of old-world scholarly publishing with the best of Web 2.0.

BEJR will publish short, peer-reviewed Commentaries on business ethics articles published in the standard, hard-copy academic journals. Every Commentary will be published on BEJR website, in high-quality PDF format. And every Commentary will be followed by a Comments section, to allow the broadest possible participation in discussion.

Please click here to see BEJR.

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Maximizing the Triple Bottom Line Through Spiritual Leadership

Monday, 07 January 2013 19:19 administrator
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Maximizing the Triple Bottom Line through Spiritual Leadership draws on the emerging fields of workplace spirituality and spiritual leadership to teach leaders and their constituencies how to develop business models that address issues of ethical leadership, employee well-being, sustainability, and social responsibility without sacrificing profitability, growth, and other metrics of performance excellence.

While this text identifies and discusses the characteristics necessary to be a leader, its major focus is on leadership—engaging stakeholders and enabling groups of people to work together in the most meaningful ways. The authors offer real-world examples of for-profit and non-profit organizations that have spiritual leaders and which have implemented organizational spiritual leadership. These cases are based on over ten years of research, supported by the International Institute of Spiritual Leadership, that demonstrates the value of the Spiritual Leadership Balanced Scorecard Business Model presented in the book. "Pracademic" in its orientation, the book presents a general process and tools for implementing the model. (From Stanford University Press website)

This book can be obtained from Stanford University Press website.

Last Updated ( Monday, 07 January 2013 19:48 )
 

Crisis and Recovery: Ethics, Economics and Justice

Tuesday, 08 November 2011 14:28 administrator
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Crisis and Recovery: Ethics, Economics and JusticeWilliams, Rowan and Larry Elliot (2010) Crisis and Recovery: Ethics, Economics and Justice, Palgrave Macmillan.
 
The financial crisis is about more than money. It is also about morality, casting an uncomfortable light on the links between the activities of bankers and the well being of society as a whole. The idea that economics is morally neutral or that finance should be above ethical scrutiny deserves to be challenged. The Most Reverend Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Larry Elliott, Economics Editor of the Guardian, bring together a group of distinguished commentators to open up the ethical debate in the search for a fairer vision of economic justice. (From Amazon)
 
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Invitation for Your Short Articles

Saturday, 07 November 2009 01:31 administrator
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Do you have an answer to the following questions?
Would you like to share your ideas with other interested people?
If yes, please write your response for one or more of the following questions and send to us through Contact page. We’ll publish them in the appropriate section of Business Ethics Resources website.

What is Business Ethics?
Why is Business Ethics necessary?
Is Business Ethics different than Ethics or Morality?
Can Business Ethics be taught?
What is Code of Ethics?
Do only big companies need Code of Ethics?
What is Environmental Ethics?
What is Bio-Ethics?
What is Corporate Social Responsibility?
Can a company be socially responsible?
Are profit and social responsibility competitors of each other?
Can a company be socially responsible and profitable?
What is Work Ethic?
What is the source of Work Ethic?
What is Protestant Work Ethic?
Do Protestants have a different kind of Work Ethic than the rest?
What is the source of Protestant Work Ethic?
What is Islamic Work Ethic?
What is the source of Islamic Work Ethic?

Please keep your response about 500 words and provide a byline.
Thanks!

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What Is Business Ethics?

Wednesday, 10 September 2008 21:50 administrator
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Several accounting and management--or broadly put ethics--scandals with some big companies (i.e. Enron, WorldCom, and Arthur Andersen) in recent years troubled the corporate world. These were not small issues, and resulting from these scandals companies were destroyed and top executives were jailed. As it is in every aspects of life, being ethical while conducting business may prevent these kind problems. Than, how can someone be ethical in business or what is business ethics?

Ferrell et al offers this definition: “Business ethics comprises the principles and standards that guide behavior in the world of business. Investors, employees, customers, interest groups, the legal system, and the community often determine whether a specific action is right or wrong, ethical or unethical. Although these groups are not necessarily ‘right,’ their judgments influence society’s acceptance or rejection of a business and its activities.” (Ferrell et al 2008, 6) Even though Ferrell et al put a really broad definition, they still feel the need to express that it may be perceived differently by different entities.

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"Will not knowledge of [the good], then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what is right?"
-Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

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