Ethics and corporate social responsibility why giants fall
Title:
Ethics and corporate social responsibility why giants fall
Author:
Sims, Ronald R.
ISBN:
9780313051951
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vi, 318 p.)
Contents:
Ethical business missteps: the former and current state of affairs -- The nature of business and managerial ethics -- Understanding corporate citizenship: social responsibility, responsiveness, and performance -- A stakeholder approach to socially responsible and ethical behavior -- Why unethical behavior occurs in organizations -- Unethical behavior in action: Beech-Nut, E.F. Hutton, and the Case of John Gutfreund at Salomon Brothers -- Enron: how a failure of leadership, culture, and unethical behavior brought a giant to its knees -- Making sense of stakeholder culpability in the Enron demise -- Ethical turnaround in action: Warren Buffett at Salomon Brothers -- Institutionalizing ethics: a proactive approach to countering unethical behavior -- Developing and maintaining ethical employee-employer relationships -- Restoring ethics consciousness to the workplace.
Abstract:
Ethical failures are rooted in leadership failure, the lack of a corporate culture in which ethical concerns have been integrated, and unresponsiveness to key organizational stakeholders. This book seeks to enhance our understanding of the causes of ethical debacles in an era when ethical missteps can often lead to corporate bankruptcies or worse. Sims offers practical solutions for mitigating damage and preventing such problems from happening in the first place. He also explains how to institutionalize ethics throughout an organization.
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