Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk About How To Do It Right - Softcover

Trevino, Linda K.; Nelson, Katherine A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471230545 ISBN 13: 9780471230540

Publisher: Wiley, 2003

Synopsis

Offering a highly realistic, down-to-earth look at ethics in the workplace, Linda K. Treviño and Katherine A. Nelson's Managing Business Ethics will help you identify and solve ethical dilemmas, understand why people behave and the way they do, and promote ethical behavior in your organization. The text moves beyond the scope of prescriptive individual ethical decision making to examinie how managers and organizations influence ethical decision making and behavior. 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.

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From the Publisher

Two experts in the field look at business ethics in a radically new way, stressing the importance of considering ethics as an issue that can be managed much like other cultural characteristics. Uses easy-to-understand terms to describe ethical dilemmas, concentrating on typical dilemmas a middle manager may encounter, how managers can encourage ethics in their departments and how an organization can manage ethics through its culture.

From the Back Cover

Practical Strategies for Promoting Ethical Behavior

Offering a highly realistic, down-to-earth look at ethics in the workplace, Linda K. Treviño and Katherine A. Nelson's Managing Business Ethics will help you identify and solve ethical dilemmas, understand why people behave and the way they do, and promote ethical behavior in your organization.

The text moves beyond the scope of prescriptive individual ethical decision making to examinie how managers and organizations influence ethical decision making and behavior. 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.

Highlights of the Third Edition

• Features new research and new examples from recent business scandals at companies such as Arthur Anderson, Enron, Citigroup, and others.
• Takes a pragmatic, managerial approach that focuses on how managers and organizations can influence behavior.
• Cases reflect the kinds of problems that most people will encounter during the course of their careers.
• Incorporates current empirical research on ethics and organizational behavior, including recent research on ethical leadership (conducted by Professor Treviño and colleagues).
• Includes reflections written by Renee Flemish, executive director of the Salvation Army's World Trade Center relief program.
• A revised chapter on managing ethics and legal compliance examines the approaches to ethics management at seven major companies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0471230545
• ISBN 13: 9780471230540
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 384