The Heart of A Business Ethic
University Press of America
Published on 8. September 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7618-3188-4 (ISBN)
Description
Over the past several years a cascade of corporate scandals have erupted. Savings and provisions for retirement have shrunk drastically. Jobs have been lost. One of the world's largest and best-known accounting firms is gone. Ordinary people have been hurt and they have lost confidence in business leaders. The on-going public debate over business ethics and corporate reform points to one common conclusion: Things cannot be corrected by simply adding more laws and new rules. The solution will come from high moral leadership.
The Heart of A Business Ethic is based on the Hansen-Wessner Lectureship Series established by the ServiceMaster Foundation to consider the source of moral authority and ethical behavior in business. The eight lectures in this series were presented at major universities in the U.S. and Britain, and brought together some of the most distinguished business experts of our time. What they have to say is important for business teachers and students, and business leaders at every level.
The scandals at Enron, Tyco and others have generated many books on business ethics, but none offer the expertise or breadth of thinking that this volume does. The Heart of A Business Ethic is useful to professors, students, and practitioners who not only want to understand what has happened, but who also want to think through the basis for a new standard of morality in business.
The Heart of A Business Ethic is based on the Hansen-Wessner Lectureship Series established by the ServiceMaster Foundation to consider the source of moral authority and ethical behavior in business. The eight lectures in this series were presented at major universities in the U.S. and Britain, and brought together some of the most distinguished business experts of our time. What they have to say is important for business teachers and students, and business leaders at every level.
The scandals at Enron, Tyco and others have generated many books on business ethics, but none offer the expertise or breadth of thinking that this volume does. The Heart of A Business Ethic is useful to professors, students, and practitioners who not only want to understand what has happened, but who also want to think through the basis for a new standard of morality in business.
Reviews / Votes
The rancorous public debate over business ethics and corporate reform has lacked a few crucial ingredients: A genuine love for business and human enterprise, the confidence that the American corporation is 'worth saving,' a sense that it is fully worthy of our loftiest ideals and most focused energies. Gratefully, this is precisely what Peter Drucker, Max De Pree, James Baker, Michael Novak and their distinguished colleagues offer us in The Heart of A Business Ethic. -- Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern California * From The Foreword * The rancorous public debate over business ethics and corporate reform has lacked a few crucial ingredients: A genuine love for business and human enterprise, the confidence that the American corporation is 'worth saving,' a sense that it is fully worthy of our loftiest ideals and most focused energies. Gratefully, this is precisely what Peter Drucker, Max De Pree, James Baker, Michael Novak and their distinguished colleagues offer us in The Heart of A Business Ethic. -- Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern California * From The Foreword *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
368 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-3188-4 (9780761831884)
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Persons
C. William Pollard is Chairman Emeritus of The ServiceMaster Company. He is a graduate of Wheaton College and received a J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law. He is the author of the best-selling book, The Soul of the Firm and was the 2004 recipient of the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for Business Ethics at Notre Dame.
Content
0 Introduction
0 Foreword
1 The Business of Values
2 Corporate Soulcraft in the Age of Brutal Markets
3 Reflections on Some Preserving Principles of Capitalism in a Democracy
4 The International Vocation of American Business
5 The Role of the Business Corporation as a Moral Community
6 The Nature of the Exercise of Authority
7 The Integration of Faith in the Workplace
8 Business Ethics in Skeptical Times
9 Afterword
10 Index
0 Foreword
1 The Business of Values
2 Corporate Soulcraft in the Age of Brutal Markets
3 Reflections on Some Preserving Principles of Capitalism in a Democracy
4 The International Vocation of American Business
5 The Role of the Business Corporation as a Moral Community
6 The Nature of the Exercise of Authority
7 The Integration of Faith in the Workplace
8 Business Ethics in Skeptical Times
9 Afterword
10 Index