Business Ethics

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Dieses Handbuch bietet eine von führenden Fachleuten verfasste Gesamtdarstellung der evangelischen Ethik. Sie umfasst deren Grundlagen und Teilgebiete auf dem aktuellen Stand der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion und im Gespräch mit Philosophie, Rechts, Sozial- und Naturwissenschaften. Die wissenschaftlich-technischen Entwicklungen mit ihren riskanten Folgen, die Globalisierung und die zunehmende Individualisierung der Lebensentwürfe stellen frühere Selbstverständlichkeiten in Frage und werfen neue ethische Fragen auf. Dabei wächst das Interesse an den Orientierungspotentialen der Religionen. Das Handbuch der Evangelischen Ethik bietet einer weiteren Öffentlichkeit in Wissenschaft, Politik, Verwaltung, Justiz, Wirtschaft, Gesundheitswesen, Medien und in den Kirchen kompakte Informationen zur Urteilsbildung in den wichtigsten Handlungsfeldern. Zugleich dient es als Lehrbuch für Studium und wissenschaftliche Forschung.

As Islamic finance experiences rapid growth, its advocates are touting it as an ethical alternative to existing financing practices. This handbook elucidates the theoretical and ethical foundations of Islamic economics and finance, demonstrating how it can promote economic and social justice, and thus usher in an equitable society.

This book discusses the challenges that modern and flexible workplace concepts pose for managers. In particular, it addresses the uncertainties and stress factors that employees face when working in multi-space environments and how they become attached to their workplace. Drawing on a hybrid methodological approach that combines a literature review with practical lessons learned as a workplace change consultant, it offers managers concrete advice on how to lead in multi-space environments. This book aims to reduce the uncertainties and stressors caused by new work environments, and ideally to transform them into growth opportunities for the entire company. Providing concrete solutions, it represents a valuable asset for managers, HR professionals, and workplace initiative leaders alike.

This book provides a unique introduction for business leaders to the philosophical lexicon of classical and contemporary ideas-for and against-that are relevant to business and those destined to lead it. Rather than presenting the reader with a 'philosophy of leadership' the author uses his experiences in academia and as a leader in business to illustrate the practical application of philosophical ideas and methodologies covering the art and science of being a business leader: motivating stakeholders to deliver the initial phase of a business plan for a new product or service; processing information (and risky 'hidden-information') that brings the company vision into reality; and ethically managing relationships to enhance the quality of decision-making and its outcomes. Creative aspiration, knowledge and ethical character are the three pillars of leadership. Within that construct, this book challenges leaders to seek their own path to self-development inspired by ideas that shape the ecology of capitalism and the opportunities it provides stakeholders to endow meaning and dignity to their lives through their participation in business.

Team reflexivity has gained increasing research attention as an effective response to the core challenge of constant learning, innovation, and adaptation in teams due to changing circumstances. Under the right conditions, empirical studies have found that team reflexivity can improve team performance, team learning, team innovation, team creativity, and team member well-being. Thus, research shows that team reflexivity is an effective means to improve teamwork and team outcomes. This book addresses the problem that team reflexivity research is focused too narrowly on improving these empirical team outcomes while neglecting the importance of normative principles and values in good teamwork, such as the do no harm principle. Therefore, this book proposes that the team reflexivity concept needs broader reframing and deeper reflection to realize normative principles and values in teams as a precondition for good teamwork, e.g., do no harm. It further presents two team reflexivity tools andapplies them in the cases of burnout prevention and speaking up freely in teams to illustrate the point of this book: Do no harm in teams requires team reflexivity, and vice versa, team reflexivity requires do no harm.

Welche Bedeutung hat nachhaltiges Handeln für Hotel- und Restaurantbetriebe? Wie gelangt es in die Praxis und - lässt sich das Thema auch zum Nutzen aller Beteiligten umsetzen? Herausgeberin Prof. Dr. Sandra Rochnowski und ihre dual Studierenden an der Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin haben sich in diesem Buch intensiv mit dem Thema "Nachhaltigkeit im Gastgewerbe" auseinandergesetzt. Ausgehend von Bestandsaufnahmen beleuchten sie die vielen Facetten nachhaltigen Tuns im Tourismussektor und betonen die Notwendigkeit, verantwortungsvoll mit Ressourcen und Menschen umzugehen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren erörtern, wie man enkeltaugliches Handeln systematisch in das Unternehmen integriert - und erfolgreich kommuniziert. Ein wichtiges Ziel: Konsum und Nachhaltigkeit sollen sich keinesfalls ausschließen. Die 21 Beiträge liefern darüber hinaus nützliche methodische Hinweise und Beispiele zur Entwicklung zukunftsfähiger Betriebskonzepte. Eine inspirierende Lektüre für alle Entscheiderinnen und Entscheider im Gastgewerbe. Sandra Rochnowski ist Professorin für Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Tourismusbetriebswirtschaft, an der Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin. Sie ist Fachleiterin des Dualen Bachelorstudiengangs BWL/Tourismus sowie akademische Leiterin des Masterstudiengangs Nachhaltigkeits- und Qualitätsmanagement und steht dem Institut für Nachhaltigkeit vor.

This book analyzes the recent discussions on the practices, issues, challenges and strategies of various public organizations and service organizations in light of the ongoing global pandemic. The book investigates how such organizations have managed to sustain the changes brought on to operations due to the new normal business environment and, in doing so, provides lessons and insights on how similar strategies could be implemented successfully in other organizations. This book would be a valuable read for policy makers, decision makers of public organizations, and scholars.

This book brings together a collection of articles from eminent scholars and practitioners from India, Europe, the USA, and Australia and investigates the applicability of spiritually inspired business models in Indian and Western contexts. This book is a tribute to the revered Indian management scholar and philosopher Professor S. K. Chakraborty, a pioneer of human values and Indian ethos in management. It explores the potentials and pitfalls of spiritual-based leadership and provides directions for renewing business education to embrace human values and spirituality. The forty contributions in the book are divided into seven sections-introduction; business ethics and management; developing new organizational models and processes; potentials and pitfalls of spirituality-based leadership; leaders and their world; education, spirituality, and society; ways to go-to bring out different aspects of the spirituality in business model endorsed by Chakraborty. The book is a treasure trove for researchers of not only business ethics, but also of leadership and strategy studies, in addition to the organization professionals and the general reader for expert insights on the topic.

Wie präsentiert sich der Humanismus im Zeitalter der Globalisierung? Welche Alternativen bieten sich dem traditionellen, oft ethnozentrisch geprägten europäischen Humanismus im 21. Jahrhundert? Die aktuelle globale, an neuen Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten, aber auch an kulturellen und religiösen Konflikten reiche Weltlage, stellt die modernen Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften vor brisante Fragen. Ausgehend von verschiedenen Disziplinen und kulturellen Kontexten reflektieren und diskutieren die Beiträge des transdisziplinären Bandes den Humanismus im Zeitalter der Globalisierung.

This book uses global case studies of white-collar crime to examine offenders in top business positions and their motives. Drawing on the theory of convenience, this book opens up new perspectives of white-collar offenders in terms of their financial motives, their professional opportunities, and their personal willingness for deviant behaviour. It focusses on three groups of privileged individuals who have abused their positions for economic gain: people who occupied the position of chair of the board, people who were chief executive officers, and female offenders in top positions, and the related white-collar crimes. Convenience themes are identified in each case using the structural model for convenience theory. The case studies are from Denmark, Germany, Japan, Moldova, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. This book speaks to those interested in white-collar crime, criminal justice, policing, organizational behaviour and business administration.

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Introduction (Luise Li Langergaard).- Chapter 1. Economy, Growth and Sustainability: Shortcomings of mainstream economics' growth visions (Jesper Jespersen).- Chapter 2. Heterodox Economy, pluralism and sustainability: A way ahead? (Leonhard Dobush and Jakob Kapeller).- Chapter 3. Economic Philosophy and Sustainability. Concepts of economic Transition (Gilles Campagnello).- Chapter 4. Deliberative Democracy in Social and Solidarity Economy (Jean-Louis Laville).- Chapter 5. Sustainability and Social and Solidarity Economy (Linda Lundgaard Andersen and Lars Hulgård).- Chapter 6. Responsibility and business economics for sustainable development (Ludger Heidbrink).- Chapter 7. Circular economy and sustainability (Thomas Budde).- Chapter 8. Eco-feminist Economics and sustainability (Jonas Egmose).- Chapter 9. Communication and economics of sustainability (Peter Seele).- Chapter 10. Ecological Economics (Ove Kai Pedersen/Vivi Storsletten) .- Chapter 11. Ecological Economics for the future (Inge Røpke).- Chapter 12. Ecological Economics and responsibility (Pedro Frances Gomez).- Chapter 13. Responsibility and transition in the perspective of ecological economics (Siri Carson).- Chapter 14. Alternative forms of economic organizing (Sine Nørholm Just).- Chapter 15. Teaching heterodox macro-economics ( Ole Bjerg and Rasmus Hougaard Nielsen).- Chapter 16. The French convention school and the economics of sustainability (Søren Jagd).- Chapter 17. A critical theory of economics: Emancipation and sustainability (Luise Li Langergaard).- Chapter 18. Philosophy of Management and sustainability (Jacob Dahl Rendtorff).- Chapter 19. Economic Liberalism and the State (Rune Møller Stahl).- Chapter 20. Business ethics and transition to sustainability (Kristian Alm).- Chapter 21. Conclusion (Luise Li Langergaard).

This book claims that CSR is the Tao of sustainable enterprise development. It examines the intersection of practical wisdom of Taoism, CSR and Sustainability, looking at the theoretical and historical implications associated with a Taoist approach to CSR, sustainability and responsible leadership. Implications for sustainable enterprise development will be presented. The book analyzes perspectives found in Taoist classical texts and within the larger Chinese cultural context in order to delineate key issues found in the classical texts. Through these analyses, the book assesses the applicability of modern-day Taoism thought and practice in China and the West with respect to the contemporary sustainability situation. The book also explores the values, ideas and practices Taoism offers to inspire a new generation of leaders, and particularly business leaders to manage companies in a more social and sustainable way.

The book deals with the issues about the origins of Islamic economics, the basic methodological questions, the use of the opportunities offered by fiqh in the methodological discussions and the main problems arising from the encounter with other cultures and civilizations.

Dieses Buch wirft einen Blick auf den deutschen Mittelstand, insbesondere auf Hidden Champions. Erfolgreiche, nicht selten familiengeführte Unternehmen leisten einen wichtigen Beitrag für den Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland, sie sind zudem wesentliche Akteure im Sinne des ehrbaren Unternehmertums und der Verantwortungsübernahme durch die Wirtschaft. Hidden Champions tragen maßgeblich zu Innovationskraft, Resilienz und Zukunftsfähigkeit von Wirtschaftsregionen bei. Und nicht zuletzt in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung als Träger von CSR wächst deren Relevanz zusehends. Das Buch liefert durch Fachbeiträge sowie insbesondere durch das Aufzeigen von Best-Practice-Beispielen erfolgreicher Hidden Champions einen wichtigen Beitrag in der Diskussion, warum gerade diese Unternehmen zu den internationalen Spitzenleistern gehören. Der Wahrnehmung von CSR in all ihren Facetten kommt hierbei ein besonderer Stellenwert zu, den es lohnt, näher zu betrachten.