Ethics category: 8196 books
by Benjamin De Mesel
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
This book shows that Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophical methods can be fruitfully applied to several problems in contemporary moral philosophy. The author considers Wittgenstein’s ethical views and addresses such topics as meta-ethics, objectivity in ethics and moral perception. Readers...
Skin in the Game
Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
*#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the *author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility
In his most provocative and practical book yet,one of the foremost thinkers of...
Final Accounting
Ambition, Greed and the Fall of Arthur Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2003
A withering exposé of the unethical practices that triggered the indictment and collapse of the legendary accounting firm.
Arthur Andersen's conviction on obstruction of justice charges related to the Enron debacle spelled the abrupt end of the 88-year-old accounting firm. Until recently,...
The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse
How to Spot Moral Meltdowns in Companies... Before It's Too Late
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006
Do you want to make sure you
· Don't invest your money in the next Enron?
· Don't go to work for the next WorldCom right before the crash?
· Identify and solve problems in your organization before they send it crashing to the ground?
Marianne Jennings has spent a lifetime studying business...
White Coat, Black Hat
Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Over the last twenty-five years, medicine and consumerism have been on an unchecked collision course, but, until now, the fallout from their impact has yet to be fully uncovered. A writer for The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, Carl Elliott ventures into the uncharted dark side of medicine,...
Moral Machines
Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach argue that as...
Character and Cops
Ethics in Policing
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Since the first edition was published in 1989, Character and Cops has been considered the bible of police ethics training. The book is a comprehensive guide to the ethical challenges faced daily by police officers, especially in times of heightened security. The updated sixth edition features a new...
Inclusive Leadership
A Framework for the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This insightful management book introduces an inspirational new ethics-oriented approach to business and leadership for current and future leaders. It argues that the challenges of today's global era require a new, more holistic and ethical leadership approach than conventional concepts suggest. A...
Ethical Efficiency
Responsibility and Contingency
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Practical and conceptual, the Responsible Research and Innovation set of books contributes to the clarification of this new requirement for all sciences and technological innovation. It covers the multiple and international responsibilities, by using various philosophical resources, mostly discussing...
by Daniel Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: 1,7, University of Cooperative Education (International Business Administration), course: -, 30 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In recent years,...
Responsible Leadership
Lessons from the Front Line of Sustainability and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
As Chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group from 1991–2001 and Anglo American plc from 2002–2009, Sir Mark Moody-Stuart is as qualified as anyone on the planet to discuss the realities, dilemmas and lessons to be learnt from the last 20 years of corporate engagement with sustainability, ethics...
Ethics 101
What Every Leader Needs To Know
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Bestselling author John C. Maxwell shows you how the Golden Rule works everywhere, and how, especially in business, it brings amazing dividends.
by Elizabeth P Tierney
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Forward-thinking business people around the world and from diverse public and private industry sectors now recognise that the 2000-year-old debate about ethics and commerce should be addressed. Such managers do not see discussions of ethics and business as a joke, as a threat or as a weakness, but...
by Elizabeth P Tierney
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Ethical dilemmas are tough problems to solve because they have a variety of implications, are worrisome and filled with intangibles. They may involve situations that are potentially harmful to people or to the planet and may affect a variety of stakeholders. But not all of them have multi-million...