Next Phase of Business Ethics

Part 1 Why business ethics needs to integrate philosophy and psychology - motivation, courage and organizational politics: motivational appeal in normative theories of enterprise; psychological pragmatism and the imperative of aims - a new approach for business ethics; can ethical character be stimulated and enabled? An action learning approach to teaching and learning organization ethics. Part 2 Philosophical assumptions of empirical methods: cognitive pathology and moral judgment in managers; on the power of a clear definition of rationality; mapping perfect and imperfect duties onto hierarchically and partially restrictive trait dimensions; paradigms linked - a normative-empirical dialogue about business ethics. Part 3 Self-interest and altruism: challenging the egoistic paradigm; two threats to the common good - self-interested egoism and empathy-induced altruism; the norm of self-interest. Part 4 Ethical decision making: ethical leadership and the psychology of decision making; why good people sometimes do bad things - motivated reasoning and unethical behaviour. Part 5 Behaviour in organizations: differences in ethical beliefs, intentions, and behaviours; the effect of organizational forces on individual morality - judgement, moral approbation and behaviour; the ethical context in organizations - influences on employee attitudes and behaviours. Part 6 Virtue ethics, responsibility, and the search for wisdom: the role of character in business ethics; authority, heuristics, and the structure of excuses; managerial wisdom. Part 7 Connecting care and rights - individuals, organizations, and markets: beyond caring - the de-moralization of gender; the moral psychology of business - care and compassion in the corporation; just caring and caring justice. Part 8 Organizational ethics: paradigms for religion in business - the ministry of Norman Vincent Peale and contemporary source of ethics; academic ethics - a state of the field; carris companies experience - corporate values in practice; an all non-American dream.