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This is a selection of books addressing Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility.
Practical Guidance
Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk About How to Do It Right
L Trevino, K. Nelson, Wiley, 2006 (4th ed.)
This title offers practical strategies for promoting ethical behavior. It will help those working in business identify and solve ethical dilemmas, understand why people behave the way they do, and help design a culture that will promote ethical behavior in an organization. Throughout, the emphasis is on common, real-life work situations, including hiring, managing, assessing performance, disciplining, firing, and providing incentives for staff, as well as producing quality products and services, and dealing effectively and fairly with customers, vendors, and other stakeholders. International references reflect the realities of the increasingly global business environment.
Executive Ethics: Ethical Dilemmas and Challenges for the C Suit
R Sims (ed), Information Age Publishing, 2008
This book’s focus is on the creation of an ethics-driven ethos in business. It draws on the wisdom and experiences of twenty-nine different contributors from both industry and academia. This book will also help practitioners to understand how organizations can maximize the fun, effectiveness, and experienced meaningfulness of the people who work there.
Guide to Business Ethics: The issues and how to manage them
Bonny C & Moon C (eds), The Economist Books, 2001
Written by experts in the field, from such organisations as the Institute for Global Ethics, the Institute of Directors and the Centre for Tomorrow's Company, this book examines the importance of ethical issues and looks at practical ways in which firms can address them. Topics include: how to integrate an ethical framework into an organization, attitudes and approaches to ethical issues on both sides of the Atlantic, corruption and how you deal with it, supply chain issues, the role of leadership, devising and implementing codes of ethics, accounting for ethics.
Competitive and Ethical
G Wyburd, Kogan Page, 1998
This book, based on real business experience, is full of practical advice for companies and individuals. It not only deals with how to avoid potentially unethical competitive practices, but emphasizes strongly how companies can increase their competitiveness by acting with due respect for all stakeholders – employees, suppliers, customers, the environment, investors and society at large.
Ethics in Organisations
D Murray, The Fast Track MBA Series, Kogan Page/Coopers & Lybrand, 1997
This book takes a practical, down-to-earth approach to the subject. It shows how managers can approach the ethical dilemmas they face in a complex world. The book covers both top-level policy and strategic decision-making, and also the day-to-day concerns of people working at all levels in an organisation. It demonstrates how ethical policies can be developed and implemented and includes case studies, practical exercises and checklists.
Ethical Leadership
S Connock and T Johns, IPD, 1995
This text adopts a practical approach to ethical leadership. Topics covered in depth, with company examples, include: balancing the needs and perspectives of different stakeholders; codes of business conduct and common ethical issues about gifts, hospitality, confidentiality, conflicts of interest and relations with suppliers; establishing the values to promote the right behaviour; effective implementation of the core principles; using training to sustain the company's ethical stance; and the role of HR in enhancing business conduct.
The ICSA Corporate Social Responsibility Handbook – CSR and Non-financial Reporting for Business
T Hoskins, ICSA, 2008 (2nd ed.)
This new edition reflects the need for its readers to understand the non financial aspects of business both from the perspective of corporate social responsibility and from the perspective of corporate reporting in the UK (and across the EU) in the form of the enhanced director’s report. This book has been written to enable Directors of a business to answer four questions: How is CSR relevant to my business? How can I make CSR work for my business? What are the differences between CSR and Business Review reporting? How can I ensure my Business Review reporting is most effective? It is written in four sections: Why to consider CSR approach for your business, How to implement CSR in your business, CSR and non financial reporting, What to make CSR work for your business
Textbooks
Business Ethics: Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalisation
A Crane and D Matten, OUP, 2007 (2nd ed.)
This is a lively and engaging textbook covering the foundations of business ethics and applying these theories, concepts and tools to each of a corporation's major stakeholders. The text features lots of case studies and vignettes.
Corporate Responsibility - A Critical Introduction,
M Blowfield and A Murray, OUP, 2008
This textbook examines the multiple dimensions to corporate responsibility. It creates a framework that presents a historical and interdisciplinary overview of the field; a summary of different management approaches; and a review of the key actors and trends worldwide. The authors take a critical perspective and provide a balance between theory and practice. They offer comprehensive coverage of the subject, combining an insightful, interdisciplinary, approach with the pedagogy and support sought after by students.
A Companion to Business Ethics
R. Frederick (ed), Blackwell, 2002
Sections of the book cover topics such as the often uneasy relationship between business ethics and capitalism, the link between business ethics and ethical theory, how ethics applies to specific problems in the business world, the connection between business ethics and related academic disciplines, and the practice of business ethics in modern corporations.
The Ethical Organisation: Ethical Theory and Corporate Behaviour
A Kitson and R Campbell, MacMillan Business, 1996
This book employs a rigorous approach to the analysis of difficult issues and problems through an exposition and application of applied ethical theories. It includes European case studies from the field of business ethics and a discussion of ethics and the individual manager.
Business Ethics
Hendry J & Sorell T, Butterworth-Heinemann,1994
Written as a textbook for postgraduate management students, this title draws together ethical theory combined with philosophy in general. It is divided into six sections, the authors consider differences between large and small businesses, obligations to employees, shareholders, suppliers, consumers, 'the community' and government. Examples are taken from international cases, and public and private companies. Issues such as codes versus practice, and cross-cultural aspects are highlighted.
Reference Books
The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility: The Complete Reference of Concepts, Codes and Organisations
W Visser, D Matten, M Pohl, N Tolhurst (eds), ICCA, 2007
This is the world's first complete reference on CSR, compiled by the Institute for Corporate Cultural Affairs (the ICCA). The entries have been written by leading experts, leading global thinkers and CSR practitioners. The book comprises 339 terms, which are split into core concepts, key words and definitions to form the standard reference for managers, academics, teachers, students, officials and volunteers in the field of CSR.
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