Synopsis
This book illustrates the application of ethical thinking to business, management and computing. The authors are not professional philosophers but lecturers, researchers and practitioners based at Liverpool Hope University (LHU) and other international institutes, who have a particular approach that will appeal to pedagogic and scholarly interests as well as to more general readers. Some of the authors are faculty colleagues at LHU, others are directly or indirectly connected with it through teaching and/or research cooperation. At LHU the ethical dimension runs through every aspect of its corporate life; it is embodied in its corporate mission statement that gives its teaching and research a special flavour, touching other people’s lives and professional practice. This book brings together some significant areas of leading edge research and scholarship in the context of engagement with communities of practice, locally, regionally and professionally, with international students, police, teachers, housing managers, ambulance workers, etc. Most of the chapters are based on the practical experience of the contributors but written in an accessible way. There is a strong intercultural and transnational flavour in this book. It is explicitly cross-disciplinary, and will appeal to readers from areas like organization analysis, computer studies and information systems as well as philosophy and ethics.
About the Author
Prof. David Weir is professor of intercultural management at Liverpool Hope University and ESC Rennes. He is an experienced academic with an impressive record of publications on the Arab Middle East and management and development issues. He had a period in industry in a fast-moving company in the home improvement and retail sectors and worked as a Dean for 25 years in various Business Schools and academic institutes including Glasgow University as the foundation Professor of Organisational Behaviour and as Director of the Bradford University School of Management and has an outstanding career record in institutional leadership, team-building, professional leadership and programme development in the UK and internationally. Dr. Nabil Ahmed Sultan is Award Director of International MBA at LHU s Business School. He is a highly regarded academic with a colourful professional career and research background. He spent his early working years in the Arab Gulf region and later headed a UK business. He also worked for the UNDP in Aden and New York before moving into academia in the late 1990s working initially at the University of Liverpool and later joining LHU. He has a strong research background and interest in information management, cloud computing, leadership, ethics and socio-economic development in the Arabian Peninsula.
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