Teaching Ethics Across the Management Curriculum

CHAPTER 16

Ethical Dimensions of Community and Investor Relations Communication and Governance for Sustainable Management

Judith Y. Weisinger and Edward L. Quevedo

Lokey Graduate School of Business, Mills College

We need to change the terms of the conversation, to make room for a larger and more public discussion about the purpose of the corporation and larger moral and political considerations. Every corporation is embedded in a social matrix, and is accountable for multiple factors within that social setting…. In a democratic society…the general public expects responsible and ethical practices and the exercise of self-restraint among business leaders in exchange for vesting an extraordinary amount of power that affects society’s well-being ...