Book Review: Leadership and Business Ethics by Gabriel Flynn
As I journeyed through Gabriel Flynn’s Leadership and Business Ethics, I was thoroughly impressed by the author’s clear and concise writing style. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the best practices and principles of ethical leadership in the business world.
One aspect that really stood out to me was the author’s emphasis on the importance of building trust with employees and stakeholders. Flynn argues that ethical leaders must work to develop a culture of transparency within their organizations, creating an environment where individuals feel comfortable speaking up about any concerns they may have.
Another significant talking point is the book’s exploration of the role that technology plays in shaping ethical decision making in business. With advancements in AI, data collection, and automation, it is crucial for leaders to be aware of how these tools can impact their organizations’ ethical policies.
While some may argue that some sections of Leadership and Business Ethics are a bit dry or academic, I found that overall, it offers valuable insights for anyone who is navigating complex business dilemmas. The book is especially relevant for those who are seeking to build sustainable businesses rooted in strong moral values.
All things considered, Gabriel Flynn has crafted a thoughtful resource that will be useful to anyone who wants to grow as an ethical leader. As someone who often struggles with these issues myself, I highly recommend this book as a must-read!
Leadership and Business Ethics
Gabriel Flynn and Patricia H. Werhane This book points to a necessary relationship between ethics and business; the success of such an alliance depends directly on sound business leadership. Without the sort of leadership that upholds the dignity and rights of employees and clients, as well as the interests of shareholders, even the most meticulously prepared ethics statements are destined to founder, as evidenced at Enron and elsewhere. Over the past 30 years or so, since business ethics became established as a discipline in its own right, much progress has been made in the ethical conduct of business at all levels. In short, business people, like politicians, doctors and church leaders, have come to realize that it is not possible to avoid involvement in ethics, for much of what business people do and cannot do may be subject to ethical evaluation. While the history of business ethics as currently practised may be traced to the medieval and ancient periods; our principal concern is with developments in the ?eld over recent decades. A consideration of how the topic has been treated by the Harvard Business Review, the business world’sleadingprofessionaljournal,provideshelpful insights into past progress and present challenges. In 1929, just as business ethics was beginning to evolve, Wallace B.
publishedDate : 2022-01-24
authors : Gabriel Flynn
publishers : Springer Nature
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Leadership And Business Ethics
Author by : Gabriel Flynn
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2008-07-17
Publisher by : Springer Science & Business Media
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Description : Gabriel Flynn and Patricia H. Werhane This book points to a necessary relationship between ethics and business; the success of such an alliance depends directly on sound business leadership. Without the sort of leadership that upholds the dignity and rights of employees and clients, as well as the interests of shareholders, even the most meticulously prepared ethics statements are destined to founder, as evidenced at Enron and elsewhere. Over the past 30 years or so, since business ethics became established as a discipline in its own right, much progress has been made in the ethical conduct of business at all levels. In short, business people, like politicians, doctors and church leaders, have come to realize that it is not possible to avoid involvement in ethics, for much of what business people do and cannot do may be subject to ethical evaluation. While the history of business ethics as currently practised may be traced to the medieval and ancient periods; our principal concern is with developments in the ?eld over recent decades. A consideration of how the topic has been treated by the Harvard Business Review, the business world’sleadingprofessionaljournal,provideshelpful insights into past progress and present challenges. In 1929, just as business ethics was beginning to evolve, Wallace B....
Leadership And Business Ethics
Author by : Gabriel Flynn
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2022-01-24
Publisher by : Springer Nature
ISBN :
Description : This book offers new and challenging approaches to business ethics that successfully link theory and practice thereby overcoming lacunae and inadequacies in much of the literature concerning ethics and governance, a theme that recurs with remarkable frequency in the history of business ethics as an academic discipline. This work provides imaginative and innovate proposals for the indispensable coupling of virtue, integrity, and character with global business, finance, and banking. The volume seeks to overcome the marginal status of business ethics in universities, business, and enterprise by demonstrating that virtue ethics is an important step in the direction of an adequate response to the leadership issue. This new edition of a popular work points to new ways of achieving an ever more urgent coalescence of ethics and business. It proposes practical advice and viable suggestions to business people on what is right and wrong in business. The volume makes a vital contribution in the area of education that should serve the ongoing development of top leaders. In the important domain of women in leadership, the volume provides new solutions that break boundaries on the global stage. The work challenges unethical marketing of human images with important implications for citizenship and society. The volume contains creative suggestions for the use of spirituality and human development for the enhancement of business and society. The significantly extended second edition includes an exciting line up of leading academics and practitioners in the audacious hope that something may change for the better in the realms of business and banking....
The Integrity Of The Servant Leader
Author by : Robert Sumi
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2016-10-04
Publisher by : Taylor & Francis
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Description : The impact of the global financial crisis is still being felt today and the deeply unethical behaviour of the top level leaders at those economic and financial organizations, that were at the heart of the crisis, has served to highlight the importance of integrity, and in particular the need for servant leadership, if we are to avoid another major catastrophe in the management of both commercial and non-profit organizations. Servant leadership has many features in common with transformational leadership but is primarily focused on caring about employees and their personal development. Ethical behaviour is one of the most important components of successful leadership yet this remains insufficiently investigated, especially from an interdisciplinary perspective. With the help of theory, empirical analysis and the relevant methodological apparatus, the authors fill the gap in the analysis of integrity and its impact on leadership and locate the significant factors which affect integrity in general. They develop and assess the forces that impact Servant Leadership style, as well as the ability to engender trust. As a starting point they make two assumptions: An important element in leading is the ethical dimension of leadership; The ratio of factors that affect leading and the servant leadership style is complex, but the integrity of leaders is the most important among them. The authors examine four integrated scientific areas: ethics and business ethics, human resource management and psychology and focus on the analysis of the process of leadership and the factors within that process of leading that influence its success and its ethical dimension....
Business Ethics
Author by : Michael Boylan
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2013-06-19
Publisher by : John Wiley & Sons
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Description : The second edition of Business Ethics introduces readersto key ethical issues that arise within the world of business,providing a strong theoretical foundation as well as real worldapplications. This new edition has been greatly revised, andincludes new sections on the financial services industry,globalization, and global economic justice. An accessible introduction for beginners, offering acombination of important established essays and new essayscommissioned especially for this volume Greatly revised - more than half of the selections are new tothis edition. Newly commissioned essays addressinformation technology, global economic justice and globalization,stakeholder theory, the corporation as an individual, and othertopics Uses diverse, authentic business cases toillustrate discussion of concepts Cases have been updated to reflect current problems andissues Provides students with guidance and tools to write theirown case study essays Readings are presented to progressively develop thereader's ability to read and apply ethical theory by writingcase responses from different vantage points...
Ethical Corporation Magazine
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Release Date : 2008-07
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Clinical Ethics At The Crossroads Of Genetic And Reproductive Technologies
Author by : Sorin Hostiuc
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2023-08-14
Publisher by : Elsevier
ISBN :
Description : The Human Genome Project has triggered a technological revolution that has influenced nearly every field of medicine, including reproductive medicine, obstetrics, gynecology, andrology, prenatal genetic testing, and gene therapy. This second edition of Clinical Ethics at the Crossroads of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies offers a thorough, timely discussion of ethical issues raised by the latest genetic and genomic technologies applied in human reproductive and prenatal medicine, providing practical recommendations, guidelines, and algorithms to support ethical clinical practice. Here, international experts consider the ethics of technologies from preconception carrier screening to genetic engineering, CRISPR gene editing, mitochondrial gene replacement therapy, sex selection, predictive testing, secondary findings, embryo reduction, and the moral status of the embryo, genetic enhancement, and the sharing of genetic data. Throughout the book, contributors adopt a global, holistic perspective on applied challenges and the moral questions around the implementation of genetic reproductive technologies. The book is an ideal resource for practitioners, regulators, lawmakers, clinical researchers, genetic counselors, and graduate and medical students.This fully updated second edition examines new developments in the field, tackling ethical aspects of organoid development, recent advances in pharmacogenomics, direct-to-consumer genetic testing, and genetic engineering. • Provides practical analysis of the ethical issues raised by cutting-edge techniques and recent advances in prenatal and reproductive geneticsContains contributions from leading bioethicists and clinicians who offer a global, holistic perspective on applied challenges and moral questions relating to genetic and genomic reproductive technology • Discusses preconception carrier screening, genetic engineering, and the use of CRISPR gene editing, mitochondrial gene replacement therapy, and ethical issues, among others • Considers ethical aspects of recent advances and new technologies in the field, from organoid development to pharmacogenomics and direct-to-consumer genetic testing...
Die Neue Wissenschaft Der Politik
Author by : Eric Voegelin
Languange Used : de
Release Date : 2004
Publisher by : Wilhelm Fink Verlag
ISBN :
Description : Es gibt nur wenige Klassiker der modernen politischen Philosophie - Eric Voegelins Die neue Wissenschaft der Politik ist einer von ihnen. Ihre Erstveröffentlichung 1952 in den USA zog durch eine Titelgeschichte vom Time Magazine sogleich breite Aufmerksamkeit auf sich und brachte dem Autor den Ruf eines Theoretikers von Rang ein. Sie ist im besten Sinne des Wortes eine Streit- und zugleich eine Programmschrift. In dezidierter Frontstellung gegen das positivistische Wissenschaftsverständnis unternimmt der Autor den Versuch, die politische Wissenschaft in Anknüpfung an die Tradition der klassischen episteme politike als eine Wissenschaft von menschlicher und gesellschaftlicher Ordnung neu zu begründen. In ihrem Mittelpunkt stehen, neben der Frage nach dem Wesen der Rationalität, eine Philosophie der Geschichte mit einer ebenso kritischen wie kontroversen Deutung der westlichen Modernität. Als "ein Werk von exzeptioneller Qualität" brachte Die neue Wissenschaft der Politik Voegelin den begehrten Lippencott Award der American Political Science Association ein. Auch heute, ein halbes Jahrhundert nach ihrem ersten Erscheinen, hat sie nichts von ihrer ursprünglichen Frische, Aktualität und intellektuellen Brillanz verloren....
Religious And Theological Abstracts
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Release Date : 2004
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Comparative Csr And Sustainability
Author by : Gabriel Donleavy
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2022-12-30
Publisher by : Taylor & Francis
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Description : This book breaks new ground by providing a structured and cohesive set of contributions on the actions, developments, problems and theories of corporate social responsibility (CSR). With new case studies from the UN’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs), contributors in this book investigate how firms in Eastern and Western countries are responding to and making use of evolving CSR guidelines. The book addresses the following questions: is CSR simply greenwashing or an authentic commitment to responsible corporate citizenship? Has globalization drawn CSR conduct in LDCs closer to that of industrialized countries? Stakeholder theory, actor–network theory and a new orbital theory of accountability are applied to give coherence to the case studies. Other chapters address greenwashing in reports, the impact of CSR in socially stigmatized occupations, an analysis on what responsibility precisely entails in CSR, and the interface between law and CSR. The book also considers the impact of COVID-19 on the hospitality industry, and includes a contribution from Ukrainian scholars, one written while their city of Kharkiv was under attack by Russian forces. This book will be a useful reference to those interested in discussions on crises, climate change, and SDGs and realizing sustainable goals through CSR....
National Library Of Medicine Current Catalog
Author by : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Release Date : 1991
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