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Ethics and Organizational Decision Making: A Call for Renewal
Ronald
R. Sims ed.
ISBN: 0-89930-860-0
232 pages, Quorum Books
July 30, 1994
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Decision making is the critical key to survival in the future. It is the contention of this book that we must increase our understanding of organizational decision making in general and ethical decision making in particular. Ethics underlies much of what happens in modern organizations. Organizations, which institutionalize ethics, develop a culture based on ethical values and consistently display them in all their activities. They derive a number of positive benefits: improved top management control, increased productivity, avoidance of litigation and an enhanced image that attracts talent and the public's good will. |
http://www.praeger.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=Q860 |
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The Ethics of Public Service: Resolving Moral Dilemmas in Public Organizations
Kathryn
G. Denhardt
Greenwood Press; 1/13/1988; ISBN: 0-313-25517-2; 207 pages
This ground-breaking volume offers a theoretical framework from which the theory and practice of ethics in public administration can be guided. Starting with the most prominent literature in the field, it constructs a theoretical foundation for administrative ethics by building on the twin themes of organizational setting and individual administrator. Stressing that the field has failed to take advantage of the philosophical traditions that should be the underpinnings of any study or application of ethics, the volume focuses not only on the current state of public administration, but stresses the role of philosophy. The proposed framework is examined in light of philosophical traditions and in terms of how it fits with the role and context of public administrators in the general society. The book takes a practical approach, with emphasis on the exigencies of the environment in which public administrators must practice. The shortcomings of current approaches to public administration ethics are addressed, and alternative approaches proposed. Finally, the study examines the validity of the framework and the suggestions of earlier chapters by applying them to a specific case that might be faced by an administrator.
http://www.praeger.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=DQU/ |
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A Systematic Analysis of Issues, Alternatives, Professional Ethics and Practice in Organizational Development and Approaches
Louis
P. White , Kevin
C. Wooten
Praeger Publishers; 11/15/1985 ISBN: 0-275-90007-X;
235 pages
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Professional Ethics and Practice in Organizational Development is the first book to provide a systematic and analytical approach to professional ethical systems in general and to the ethics of organizational development specifically. The book covers this and other techniques used to study ethics in a descriptive as well as prescriptive manner. |
http://www.praeger.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=C0007 |
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The Search for Meaning in Organizations: Seven Practical Questions for Ethical Managers
Moses
L. Pava
Quorum Books; 7/30/1999; ISBN: 1-56720-201-2; 176 pages
Shows that business ethics is not really about the application of onerous nit-picking rules; instead, it is ultimately about creating meaningful work environments without sacrificing legitimate bottom-line concerns.
http://www.praeger.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=Q201 |
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Managing By Values
Ken
Blanchard, Michael
O'Connor
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Based on over twenty-five years of research and application, Managing by Values provides a practical game plan for defining, clarifying, and communicating an organization's values and insuring that it's practices are in line with those values throughout the organization. |
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Organizational Ethics and the Good Life
Oxford University Press; January 1996; 214 pages
Edwin Hartman, Rutgers University
Author argues that ethical principles should not derive from abstract theory, but from the real world of experience in organizations. He explains how ethical principles derive from what workers learn in their communities (firms), and that an ethical firm is one that creates the good life for the workers who contribute to its mission. His approach is based on the Aristotelian tradition of refined common sense, from recent work on collective action problems in organizations, and from social contract theory.
http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195100778.html |
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Ethics and Governance: Business as Mediating Institution
Oxford University Press; 2001; 320 pages
Timothy L. Fort, University of Michigan Business School
This book argues that ethical business behavior can be enhanced by taking fuller account of human nature, particularly with respect to the need for creating relatively small communities within the corporation. Timothy Fort discusses this premise in relation to the three predominant theories of business ethics--stakeholder, virtue, and contract. Drawing heavily from philosophy, he analyzes traditional business ethics and legal theory. Overall, his work provides a good example of how to integrate normative and empirical studies in business ethics, a task that often receives substantial discussion in academic journals.
http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195137604.html |
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Moral Imagination and Management Decision-Making
Oxford University Press; 1999; 160 pages.
Patricia H. Werhane
Why do reputable companies do unethical things? This question continues to challenge scholars and corporate leaders alike. Werhane argues that most managers are not without morals, nor are they merely greedy or even motivated primarily by self-interest. What is missing, she asserts, is a highly developed moral imagination that enables managers and the companies they run to recognize, evaluate, and change the mental models that often constrict managerial behavior.
http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/019512569X.html |
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The Politics of Ethics: Methods for Acting, Learning, and Sometimes Fighting With Others in Addressing Problems in Organizational Life
Oxford University Press; 1996; 272 pages
Richard P. Nielsen, Boston College
The Politics of Ethics examines the obstacles to behaving
ethically in organizations. The book provides several methods of overcoming
these obstacles to ethical behavior--punishment-based ethics compliance
codes, win-lose or win-win negotiating, due process systems--and the
strengths and weaknesses of each.
http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195096665.html |
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Organizational Ethics in the Compliance Context
Softbound, 370 pp, 1999; ISBN 1-56793-110-3
John Abbott Worthley
Addresses fundamental aspects of organizational ethics and how to apply them to daily organizational issues. Each chapter includes a case example that illustrates practical methods for maintaining an ethical organization environment. Topics include:
relationship of organizational culture, compliance, and ethical behavior; conflicts of interest; sexual harassment, fraud and abuse; substance abuse; and diversity and equal opportunity.
http://www.ache.org/PUBS/oecc.cfm |
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Whistleblowing as A Failure Of Organizational Ethics
Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, December 31, 1998
James
J. Fletcher, Jeanne
M. Sorrell, and Mary
Cipriano Silva
The authors provide an analysis of whistleblowing in health care organizations
and make the case it represents ethical failure at the organizational
level. They argue that neither the codes of professional nursing associations
nor the standards of the Joint
Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
provide, in their current forms, mechanisms to overcome the need for
whistleblowing. They believe that JCAHO is in a unique position to
require health care organizations to address concerns of organizational
ethics in ways that go beyond mere compliance related to business
practices. The article concludes with recommendations to refine approaches
to organizational ethics and to protect staff who speak out in the
defense of patient health and welfare.
http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/topic8/topic8_3.htm |
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Organizational Ethics in Health Care: Toward a Model for Ethical Decision Making by Provider Organizations
American Medical Association, Institute for Ethics, National Working Group on Health Care Organizational Ethics
David Ozar, Jessica Berg, Patricia H. Werhane, Linda Emanuel
While there is a well-developed literature on professional ethics regarding individual patient-physician encounters, such is not the case regarding health care organizations. Yet these organizations present unique issues, in part because they must integrate business, professional, and patient concerns. In addition, although some similar concerns may be shared by any organization dealing with multiple stakeholders, the fact that these organizations provide health care (a basic need) to ill people (a vulnerable population) is of particular importance. Thus, general theories of institutional morality or institutional obligations (e.g., stakeholder theory) may not provide a full theory for the ethics of health care organizations. The Institute for Ethics National Working Group on Organizational Ethics in Health Care was appointed to study the interactions between professional and business ethics and to begin the development of a coherent theory of health care organizational ethics. Participants included representatives from clinical ethics, business ethics, institutional ethics, health care organization administration, and government regulatory agencies. This white paper outlines the Working Group's theory and is available in PDF format.
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Complete Guide to Ethics Management: An Ethics Toolkit for Managers
The Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits
Carter McNamara
This guide is a straightforward and practical tool designed to help leaders and managers implement comprehensive ethics management systems in their workplaces -- systems to deal with the complex, ethical issues that can occur in the day-to-day realities of leading and managing an organization. It is part of the Free Management Library, Management Assistance Program for Non-Profits. This guidebook is free in order to make its contents highly accessible to organizations, particularly those with limited resources. 20 pages, about two hours to read. Contains section entitled "Ethics Tools: Training".
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Ethical Edge.com
Ethical Edge is an ethics and policy research effort based on the belief that applying the principles and practices of organizational ethics is an eminently practical part of organizational life. It is an online resource intended to stimulate dialogue into the pressing ethical and policy issues of our days. Interdisciplinary, it brings together insights from anthropology, psychology, sociology, political economics, sociobiology, literature, management theory and practice, science and technology, and, of course, philosophy to help leaders find and assert the balances needed to achieve organizational purposes and serve human needs. Pages which may of particular interest to the ethics researcher/ student include Ethics News (online articles, features and commentary on ethics and policy matters around the world with links to source articles) and its Glossary.
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Keys to Creating an Effective Ethics Program
David L. Perry, Ph.D.
What steps can executives take to develop and implement a comprehensive, long-term initiative in organizational ethics? This website presents a brief set of measures recommended by the Ethics Resource Center, a private, not-for-profit corporation based in Washington, DC.
http://home.earthlink.net/~davidlperry/healthex.htm |
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Organizational Ethics
This abbreviated website presents a self-test for individuals relative to their organizations. Fourteen ethical dimensions are presented for response from multiple choices which are described as roughly correlating with Kohlberg's levels of morality (profit maximizing, trusteeship, quality of life management). Scoring guidelines and interpretation are offered. The conclusion presented is that there is a positive and significant relationship between the ethical orientation of organizations and the level of profit: the higher the orientation, the higher the level of profit when computed over a period of years.
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