Ethics and Organizational Practice: Questioning the Moral Foundations of Management

This timely book provides a collection of critical explorations and discussions of managerial ethics and their moral foundations. It is concerned with theoretical, conceptual and practical matters, and thus provides an open and broad approach to a very dense field of enquiry. Ethics and Organizational Practice challenges established theory in management studies and, in particular, provides a post-foundational argument to conventional business ethics. The contributors cover topics from corporate social responsibility and individual morality to primatology, psychopathology and corruption. They provide a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional exploration of managerial ethics and its moral foundation, presenting a critical understanding of the conditions of ethics in modern organizations. The book presents a philosophically informed critique of simplified notions of managerial and organizational ethics, making it an excellent resource for postgraduate students and scholars of business ethics, critical management, corporate social responsibility, international business and organizational psychology. Contributors: M. Alvesson, G. Cairns, E.L. Jeanes, R. Johnsen, D. Kärreman, J. Lemmergaard, T.T. Lennerfors, S. Mansell, S.L. Muhr, A. Rehn, C. Rozuel, M. Sliwa, B.M. Sørensen, S. Vallentin

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Contents: 1. Introduction – After the Party. Crisis as Foundation Sara Louise Muhr, Bent M. Sørensen and Steen Vallentin 2. Developing a New Ethics of International Business: Possibilities and Role of Educators Martyna Śliwa and George Cairns 3. More than Words – An Analysis of Scandinavian Value-based Management Jeanette Lemmergaard 4. Understanding Ethical Closure in Organizational Settings – The Case of Media Organizations Dan Kärreman and Mats Alvesson 5. The Business of Business and the Politics of Opinion Steen Vallentin 6. Business Ethics and the Question of Objectivity: The Concept of Moral Progress in a Dialectical Framework Samuel Mansell 7. The Self as a Moral Anchor – Applying Jungian Psychology to Managers’ Ethics Cécile Rozuel 8. The Impossibility of Guidance – A Levinasian Critique of Business Ethics Emma Louise Jeanes and Sara Louise Muhr 9. The Creature Comforts of Management – On Morality and Empathic Response in Economic Exchange Alf Rehn 10. ‘Is Your Manager a Psychopath? … Are you?’ – The Human–Animal Divide at Work Rasmus Johnsen 11. The Sublime Object of Corruption – Exploring the Relevance of a Psychoanalytical Two-bodies Doctrine for Understanding Corruption Thomas Taro Lennerfors Index