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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Defining the Ethical Content
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Front Matter
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Auditing the Ethical Content
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Front Matter
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Developing the Ethical Content
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
- Why is ethics important to organizations?
- What are the characteristics of an ethical organization?
- How can we audit the ethics of an organization?
- What measures and activities stimulate the ethical development of organizations?
This book addresses these questions.
It is easier to say that ethics is necessary than to tell how to organize ethics. This book provides a fundamental and coherent vision on how ethics can be organized in a focused way. This study examines the assumptions for organizing ethics, the pitfalls and phases of such a process, the parts of an ethics audit and the great variety of measures.
The methods and insights illustrated in this book are based partially on practical research. One of these methods, the Ethics Thermometer, was based on more than 150 interviews at various organizations. The Ethics Thermometer has been applied in a great variety of profit and not-for-profit organizations in order to measure an organization's perceived context, conduct and consequences.
This book will be important to scholars in the field of business ethics, as well as to managers and practitioners. For scholars, this study provides general knowledge about auditing and developing the ethics of an organization. A summary is given of the criteria by which the ethical content of an organization can be measured. For managers and practitioners, this study provides concrete suggestions for safeguarding and improving ethics within their organizations.
Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethics Management
Book Subtitle: Auditing and Developing the Ethical Content of Organizations
Authors: Muel Kaptein
Series Title: Issues in Business Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4978-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5095-8Published: 31 May 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5096-5Published: 31 May 1998
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4978-5Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0925-6733
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 229
Topics: Ethics, Management, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Accounting/Auditing