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Business Ethics in Practice
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Business Ethics in Practice

by Simon Robinson, Paul Dowson
March 2012
Beginner
320 pages
13h 15m
English
CIPD - Kogan Page
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06

Character, Culture and Code – managing Ethics

learning outcomes

When you have completed this chapter you will be able to:

  • critically understand the development of personal and organisational virtues

  • critically understand the nature and function of ethical codes

  • critically understand the idea and practices of culture, and how ethics can be developed as part of that

  • critically understand the meaning and practice of conscience in relation to business organisations.

introduction

This chapter examines more closely the ethical character and culture pointed to in the previous chapter (on ethical leadership). It is based in virtue ethics and responsibility ethics, and in the first part focuses on the key virtues. The second part focuses on the community ...

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