Business ethics for better behavior / Jason Brennan, William English, John Hasnas, and Peter Jaworski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brennan, Jason, 1979- author.

English, William (Economist), author.

Hasnas, John, author.

Jaworski, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Business Ethics for Better Behavior concisely answers the three most pressing ethical questions business professionals face: 1. What makes business practices right or wrong? 2. Why do normal, decent businesspeople of good will sometimes do the wrong thing? 3. How can we use the answer to these questions to get ourselves, our coworkers, our bosses, and our employees to behave better? Bad behavior in business rarely results from bad will. Most people mean well much of the time. But most of us are vulnerable. We all fall into moral traps, usually without even noticing. Business Ethics for Better Behavior teaches business professionals, students, and other readers how to become aware of those traps, how to avoid them, and how to dig their way out if they fall in. It integrates the best work in psychology, economics, management theory, and normative philosophy into a simple action plan for ensuring the best ethical performance at all levels of business practice. This is a book anyone in business, from an entry-level employee to CEO, can use"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Why Do Good People Do Bad Things?

The Business of Business Is Business : How Businesses Serve Society

Why Aren't We All Saints?

Addressing Moral Confusion : The Principles Approach

Addressing Moral Confusion : The Right and Wrong of Exploitation

Addressing Moral Confusion : Ethics Isn't Law

The Effect of Incentives : The Value of Reputation

The Effect of Incentives : Managing for Ethics

The Effect of Incentives : The Problem of Collective Action

The Effect of Incentives : Diffusion of Responsibility

Psychological Factors : Ethical Fading and Moral Blind Spots

Psychological Factors : Meaning and Motivation

Psychological Factors : Avoid DUMB Values

Conclusion: How to Run an Unethical Business.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford University Press, viewed May 30, 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-760651-2

OCLC:

1245960129