Chapter 11
The ethical dimension
Before the last few decades, the phrase business ethics was rare. Few people worried about managing a business ethically. Of course, there always were individuals and commercial enterprises that took clear moral stances in their work – running organisations ethically and fairly. But they were a small group of pioneers. There was no widespread acceptance of the need for ethical business practices. Fortunately, this has changed. The pressures of society and regulations to run a business ethically grow all the time. In any modern company, it is ethics as well as commercialism that influences decisions and actions. Management consulting is no exception.
There has always been a foundation of rules defined in the ...
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