Synopses & Reviews
Can ethical character be stimulated and enabled? Cognitive understanding of organizational ethics issues is important and necessary, but not sufficient. Ethical behavior does not emerge automatically. Effective political method is necessary. While it may be difficult to teach ethical character, nonetheless, skill development with respect to joined ethics understanding and action-learning methods can help us develop the skills and confidence we need to actualize our ethical characters and social concerns. An action-learning approach to organizational ethics can help stimulate and enable ethical character.
Synopsis
The Politics of Ethics examines the obstacles to behaving ethically in organizations. Blending insights from behavioral science, action theory, and moral philosophy, Nielsen constructs a powerful framework for evaluating the strategies organizations employ to foster organizational ethics. The book scrutinizes several popular methods of overcoming obstacles to ethical behavior--ethics compliance codes, win-lose or win-win negotiating, whistle-blowing, dialog methods, due process systems--and weighs the strengths and weaknesses of each.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-251) and index.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Obstacles to Ethical Organization Behavior
3. A Politics of Ethics Framework Based on Action-Learning
4. Single-Loop, Win-Lose Forcing Methods
5. Single-Loop, Win-Win Methods
6. Double-Loop, Dialog Methods
7. Friendly Disentangling: Triple-Loop Dialog I
8. Friendly Upbuilding: Triple-Loop Dialog II
9. Varieties of Postmodernism: Triple-Loop Dialog III
10. Internal Due-Process Systems: Ethics Processing Machines
11. Single-, Double-, and Triple-Loop Politics: Overcoming Obstacles to Ethical Organization Behavior
12. Conclusion: Proteus as Organization Citizen
Appendix: Varieties of Dialectic Change Processes
References
Index