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Managing Responsibly : Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance.
Title:
Managing Responsibly : Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance.
Author:
Nilakant, Venkataraman.
ISBN:
9781409427469
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (249 pages)
Series:
Corporate Social Responsibility
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Globalizing Corporate Social Responsibility - Challenging Western Neo-liberal Management Theory -- Part I: Making Managers Responsible -- 2 Selfish Managers: Can We Eliminate Perverse Incentives? -- 3 Corporate Environmental Responsibility: Whose Business, Whose Health? -- Part II: Traditional Values and Ethical Management -- 4 The Duty of Corporate Management: From the Perspective of Dharma -- 5 Guilds and Governance in Ancient India: Historical Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility -- 6 Tribal Economies? -- Part III: Creating Ethical Leadership -- 7 Navigating the Tension between Global and Local: A Communication Perspective -- 8 Vocational Calling and the Search for a New Approach to Business Leadership -- 9 Cultivating Character: The Challenge of Business Ethics Education -- 10 Conclusion: New Directions in Corporate Social Responsibility -- Index.
Abstract:
In the wake of financial meltdown and environmental disaster, employers increasingly demand that managers have an understanding of ethical decision making, corporate social responsibility and values-based management. Business ethics is therefore increasingly being taught in business schools and is a rapidly developing research topic. Managing Responsibly explores the limitations of the thinking that dominates Western corporate and business culture. Contributors then draw on non-Western traditions and experience to suggest workable inter-cultural models to enhance organizational effectiveness in an increasingly globalised environment. With chapters written by specialists in economics, management, ethics, health sciences and history, the editors - one a historian and one a management specialist - ensure a truly interdisciplinary overall approach. Part One highlights the acute need for less self-interested approaches to management if local and global communities and the environment are to escape on-going damage and exploitation. Part Two draws on values from Indian and Maori traditions to propose alternatives to Western models of business ethics. Part Three suggests ways of approaching the challenges of developing sustained ethical leadership in the contemporary globalised economy. This original addition to Gower's Corporate Social Responsibility Series will appeal to a wide range of teachers, researchers and higher level students of management, as well as practitioners participating in executive development programmes. It will also serve the needs of those with a more specialist interest in business ethics and in sustainable and responsible management.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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