Crina Archer, Laura Pincus Hartman, Patricia H. Werhane

Obstacles to Ethical Decision-Making

Mental Models, Milgram and the Problem of Obedience

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Produktbeschreibung

An examination of how obedience affects and overpowers the ethics of decision-making in business, and how this can be overcome.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781107442054
• ISBN-10: 1107442052
• Artikelnr.: 41025154

Autorenporträt

Patricia H. Werhane is the Callista Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics and Director, Institute for Business and Professional Ethics at DePaul University. She is also Professor Emeritus at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. Her previous publications include Ethical Issues in Business, 7th edition (edited with Tom Donaldson and Margaret Cording, 2001).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The role of mental models in social construction
3. The Milgram studies: obedience, disobedience, and ethical challenges
4. Obstacles to ethical decision-making in the perception of ethical context
5. Obstacles to ethical decision-making in impact analysis and action
6. Managing ethical obstacles
7. Problematic mental models: some applications
8. Conclusion
Author index
Subject index.