Ethical management: learning and activity workbook

For readers concerned with leadership in contemporary organizations, this learning and activity book systematically presents a number of approaches rooted in ethical and political philosophy. It takes the reader on a journey through duty, utility, equity, community and neighbor, each of these approaches providing concepts for analyzing a situation, as well as benchmarks on which to base a challenge to a rule or practice within his or her organization. After all, readers take action in their organizations on a daily basis.

Ethical management also adapts ethical approaches to management by proposing analytical tools to develop the ethical skills of the actor. This will enable them to diagnose and adjust their practices with regard to moral intensity and organizational culture, while keeping abreast of stakeholders and the political, economic and social challenges they face in doing business in today's world. Aspiring to exercise leadership in ethical matters, the actor wants to ensure that he makes the best choice, the right decision, while recognizing that he has no definitive answer, as the organization is in tension between the economic imperative of efficiency and the quest for humanity of its members, and indeed of society.