Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: critical crossings
- 1 Agency in corporations
- 2 Stakeholder theory
- 3 Organizational culture
- 4 Enron narrative
- 5 Moral decision-making
- 6 Organizational justice
- 7 Reward, incentive, and compensation
- 8 Leadership
- 9 Whistle-blowing
- 10 Marketing, bad faith, and responsibility
- 11 Corporate social responsibility
- 12 Corporate responsibility standards
- 13 Sustainability
- 14 Globalization
- Glossary
- Name index
- Subject index
- References
3 - Organizational culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: critical crossings
- 1 Agency in corporations
- 2 Stakeholder theory
- 3 Organizational culture
- 4 Enron narrative
- 5 Moral decision-making
- 6 Organizational justice
- 7 Reward, incentive, and compensation
- 8 Leadership
- 9 Whistle-blowing
- 10 Marketing, bad faith, and responsibility
- 11 Corporate social responsibility
- 12 Corporate responsibility standards
- 13 Sustainability
- 14 Globalization
- Glossary
- Name index
- Subject index
- References
Summary
Goals of this chapter
After studying this chapter you will be able to:
understand what is meant by the term ‘culture’ in the context of business ethics;
identify the limitations of some approaches to developing an ‘ethical organizational culture’;
understand the notion of ‘freedom’ in Foucault's thought;
analyse how ‘culture’ played a role in the Enron case.
Introduction
This chapter explores ‘culture’ in relation to ethics in business. What might this mean? Box 3.1 presents an extract from a corporate values statement, which distils the core cultural values of Nnore, a major corporation. The statement is typical in emphasizing openness, honesty, and sincerity and in aspiring to excellence in everything that Nnore does. The values statement is affirmed and elaborated in the company's sixty-four-page code of ethics.
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- Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy , pp. 61 - 95Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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