From Critique to Action: The Practical Ethics of the Organizational World (New Insights)
This book is an updated version of the second in a series that illustrate the application of ethical thinking to business, management and computing. The authors are professional philosophers, teachers, researchers and practitioners, with a particular approach that will appeal to pedagogic and scholarly interests, as well as to more general readers. Some of the authors are faculty members at Liverpool Hope University; some are now faculty members at University Campus Suffolk, while others are directly connected with those authors belonging to such establishments in their teaching and research.
This book brings together some significant areas of leading-edge research and scholarship in the context of engagement with communities of practice, locally, regionally and professionally, with international students, police, teachers, housing managers, and ambulance workers. The chapters are based in the practical experience of the contributors, but written in an accessible way. There is a strong intercultural and transnational flavour. The book is explicitly cross-disciplinary, and will appeal to readers from areas like organization analysis, project management, computer studies and information systems, as well as philosophy and ethics.
This book is part of a series. View the full series, "Ethics", here.
Professor David Weir, currently Professor Emeritus at Northumbria University, has had an extremely successful academic career which has included leading four university Business Schools as the Head of the School of Business, Leadership and Enterprise at University Campus Suffolk, Director of the Bradford Management School, Head of the Glasgow University Business School, Dean and Director of the Newcastle Business School, and Dean of the Scottish Business School. He was also Chair of the Association of Business Schools (UK) and is a Visiting Professor for numerous universities including Liverpool Hope University, Lincoln University and Lancaster University. His research interests are in critical management and intercultural management, and are especially concerned with the Middle East; the breakdown in complex socio-technical systems; operational management in the UK since 1914, with special reference to the writings and influence of Nevil Shute; organisational symbolism; space; rhythm; poetry and process.
Dr Nabil Ahmed Sultan is Head of Division of Management, Business and Enterprise at University Campus Suffolk (UCS). Prior to that, he was Award Director of International MBA at the Business School at Liverpool Hope University (LHU). He is a highly regarded academic with a colourful professional career and research background. He spent his early working years in the Arab Gulf region and later headed a UK business. He also worked for the UNDP in Aden and New York before moving into academia in the late 1990s working initially at the University of Liverpool. He has a strong research background and interest in information management, knowledge management, cloud computing, leadership, ethics and the socio-economic developments of the Arabian Peninsula.
“Containing a range of original and insightful inter-disciplinary chapters, Weir and Sultan’s From Critique to Action: The Practical Ethics of the Organizational World, provides a timely contribution to international debates about the extent to which organisational ethics can have global application. Covering the spectrum of industry, government, and military practice, the authors contributing to this volume eruditely explore discourses positioning high moral fortitude against pragmatic legal obligation. This important contribution is a must read for those concerned about the future of the planet, and interested in exploring the juxtaposition of humanity’s contribution to ethical decline alongside intense commitment to achieving sustainability.”
—Prof. Kate Hutchings
Professor of HRM, Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia
“Ethics has been covered in management, organisation and related areas, though albeit rather late. By it’s nature this is a critical issue, [and] this volume covers it from a critical perspective of a deeper level of a different order. It also has a multicultural and international orientation that is original as far as I know.”
—Prof. John Burgoyne
Professor of Management Learning, Lancaster University Management School, UK
“Superbly edited and engagingly written, From Critique to Action offers a new take on business ethics that is fresh and challenging. The book reveals the complexity and conundrums inherent in organizational ethics and demonstrates refreshingly the value of original ideas and deep research in guiding ethically sound practice.”
—Prof. Charles Harvey
Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Provost, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Newcastle University, UK
“A fine exploration and many good answers on questions of ethics and management; a trend setting study on business ethics.”
—Prof. Dr. Willem Mastenbroek
Department of Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Chief Editor of ManagementSite
“This book is both timely and important. It manages to combine the rigours of good evidence based analysis with the practicalities of the real business world. It transcends national and cultural boundaries and gives us powerful insight into the dilemmas of the modern high speed data rich world in which we now all live.”
—Margaret Exley, CBE
Chairman of Stonecourt Consulting
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