Ethics and Organizational Practice

Edited by Sara Louise Muhr, Associate Professor of Organization Studies and Human Resource Management, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, Bent M. Sørensen and Steen Vallentin, Associate Professors, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

’Morality and ethics are at the heart of business practice, but the concepts themselves are usually assumed, rather than investigated. The chapters in this book refuse such easy answers, and force the reader to confront their own assumptions about ethics, provoking conclusions that are both disturbing and exciting.’

• Contents:1. Introduction – After the Party. Crisis as FoundationSara Louise Muhr, Bent M. Sørensen and Steen Vallentin2. Developing a New Ethics of International Business: Possibilities and Role of EducatorsMartyna Śliwa and George Cairns3. More than Words – An Analysis of Scandinavian Value-based ManagementJeanette Lemmergaard4. Understanding Ethical Closure in Organizational Settings – The Case of Media OrganizationsDan Kärreman and Mats Alvesson5. The Business of Business and the Politics of OpinionSteen Vallentin6. Business Ethics and the Question of Objectivity: The Concept of Moral Progress in a Dialectical FrameworkSamuel Mansell7. The Self as a Moral Anchor – Applying Jungian Psychology to Managers’ EthicsCécile Rozuel8. The Impossibility of Guidance – A Levinasian Critique of Business EthicsEmma Louise Jeanes and Sara Louise Muhr9. The Creature Comforts of Management – On Morality and Empathic Response in Economic ExchangeAlf Rehn10. ‘Is Your Manager a Psychopath? … Are you?’ – The Human–Animal Divide at WorkRasmus Johnsen11. The Sublime Object of Corruption – Exploring the Relevance of a Psychoanalytical Two-bodies Doctrine for Understanding CorruptionThomas Taro LennerforsIndex