Management Ethics

Management Ethics is an indispensable resource and guide to the issues and debates within the ethics of management. Itincludes examination of: the obligations that managers have to their various stakeholders: employees, customers, shareholders, and the community how managers can meet their obligations the ethics of supply chain management the ethics of dealing with the press and non–governmental agencies the concepts of sustainability and triple bottom line accounting The book culminates with distinctive chapters on stimulating the manager’s moral imagination and promoting a unique theory of ethical leadership.

Preface. 1. My Station and Its Duties: The Function of Being a Manager. 2. Stockholder Management or Stakeholder Management. 3. The Ethical Treatment of Employees. 4. The Ethical Treatment of Customers. 5. Supply Chain Management and Other Issues. 6. Corporate Social Responsibility. 7. Moral Imagination, Stakeholder Theory and Systems Thinking: One Approach to Management Decision–Making. 8. Leadership. Index.

Norman E. Bowie is Elmer L. Andersen Chair in Corporate Responsibility at the University of Minnesota. Patricia H. Werhane is the Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics in the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, and is Wicklander Professor of Business Ethics at DePaul University. She is the founding editor and former editor–in–chief of Business Ethics Quarterly .

“In a fresh approach to stakeholder analysis, Bowie and Werhane articulately and persuasively hone in on the unique ethical obligations that guide manager–level decision–making. Management Ethics delineates the competing pressures on managers and provides them not only with insights but actual processes for ensuring accountability for their decisions.” Laura Hartman, DePaul University “Management Ethics is up–to–date, wide–ranging, and extremely well–informed. Written from a Kantian stakeholder perspective, it presents an excellent account of the fundamentals of management ethics.” George Brenkert, Georgetown University “Bowie and Werhane combine their diverse experiences and knowledge to provide an excellent primer in management ethics. They present the basics of managers’ ethics and corporate social responsibility in a clear and compelling narrative chock–full of cogent examples and core concepts.” Thomas Dunfee, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania