Multicultural Business Ethics and Global Managerial Moral Reasoning

by Kamal Dean Parhizgar, Robert Parhizgar

Overview

Multicultural business ethics is an invisible aspect of business, but understanding it in a global context is crucial for every manager who leads within a multinational organization. This makes Multicultural Business Ethics and Global Managerial Moral Reasoning essential reading for today's multinational business professionals. Dr. Kamal Dean Parhizgar, respected author of Multicultural Behavior and Global Business Environments, and co-author Robert Reza Parhizgar bring you an informative textbook and reference source on ethics and morality in multinational business. The book also includes an instructor's manual with helpful teaching tips and overviews on chapter content, questions, and case studies used in the text.

Multicultural Business Ethics and Global Managerial Moral Reasoning explores:
—Managerial decision-making processes and ethical relativism
—Micro-level approach to moral theories
—Macro-level social approaches to ethical theories
—The comparison of issues between home and host countries
—The paradigm of multicultural ethics and business knowledge management
—Moral virtues, ethical values, and corporate stakeholders' convictions
—Managerial trust, right, and duties
—Ethical issues concerning econo-political ideologies
—Major ethical and moral issues concerning Global Social Business Darwinism
—The main theories of justice, law, and social contracts between businesses and society

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761834281
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/26/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	730
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.46(d)

About the Author

Kamal Dean Parhizgar received his Ph.D. in Management of Higher Education Institutions from Northwestern University. Currently, he is Professor of Management at Texas A&M International University. In addition to this book, he is the author of nine other books and numerous scholarly journal articles. Robert R. Parhizgar is a medical student at Texas Tech University. He received his Master's in Health Services Research and Management from Texas Tech University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 1. An Overview: The Nature of Global Business Ethics
Chapter 5 2. Comparative Analysis of Morality, Ethicality, and Legality
Chapter 6 3. Moral Theories: Idealistic, Realistic, Hedonistic, Edaemonistic, and Authentic
Chapter 7 4. Ethical Theories: Relativism, Deontologicalism, Teleologicalism, Utilitarianism
Chapter 8 5. Philosophical Means and Ends in Moral, Ethical, and Legal Business Responsibilities
Chapter 9 6. Ethics of Business Knowledge Management
Chapter 10 7. Moral Virtues, Ethical Values, and the Corporate Stakeholders' Convictions
Chapter 11 8. Trust, Right, and Duties
Chapter 12 9. Global Business Ethics and Econo-Political Ideologies: Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, Humanism, and Imperialism
Chapter 13 10. Morality and Ethics in Global Business Social Darwinism
Chapter 14 11. Justice, Law, and Social Contracts Between Businesses and Society
Chapter 15 12. Managing Moral and Ethical Issues in the Workplace
Chapter 16 13. Ethical and Moral Issues in Capital Flight
Chapter 17 14. Professionalism, Paraprofessionalism, Occupationalism, and Vocationalism
Chapter 18 15. Professional Integrity, Whistle Blowing, and Organizational Loyalty
Chapter 19 Chapter References
Chapter 20 Subject Index
Chapter 21 Name Index