Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics

Dr. Deborah Poff holds the position of President and Vice-Chancellor at Brandon University in Manitoba. From 1994 to 2004, she was Vice-President Academic and Provost at the University of Northern British Columbia. She is the co-founder and Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Academic Ethics. She is the Editor of Business Ethics in Canada and the Section Editor on Business and Economic Ethics of Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics published by Elsevier in 2012.  She recently co-edited Citation Classics from the Journal of Business Ethics: Celebrating the First Thirty Years of Publication with Springer. Her areas of research are applied ethics and leadership studies.Alex C. Michalos is Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of Northern British Columbia. He has published 22 books and over 90 refereed articles, and founded or co-founded 6 scholarly journals. He is the President of the CanadianCommission for UNESCO’s Sectoral Commission on Natural, Social and Human Sciences, and a past President of Academy II (Humanities and Social Sciences) of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies.

• 1. The history and philosophical foundations of ethics.- 2. The history and contemporary development of the field of business, professional and applied ethics.- 3. The disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to business and professional ethics.- 4. The subject specific topics in business and professional ethics.- 5. National and International laws and mores concerning human beings, human rights, animal rights, environmental protection and the intersection of these topics with business and the professions.- 6. The social, political and economic concerns of business and the human condition.- 7. The relationship between national and global capitalism and human development.- 8. The relationship between wealth and poverty, scarcity and overabundance.- 9. The distribution and retribution of goods among populations.- 10. The legislation and limit of protecting workers’ rights, health and well-being.