Ethics in Management: Business and the Professions

Management and leadership roles in business and professions entail a wide range of ethical issues and challenges. These are apparent to anyone occupying such roles, aspiring to them, or subject to decisions by managers and leaders. Their effects on our daily lives are unavoidable and wide-ranging, never more so than in times of flux and crisis.

In response, the authors of the papers in this volume consider angles such as the nature of licence to operate, whether management attracts any kind of moral exceptionalism, and the ethics of ’passion’ at work. In addition to this, other topics explored that speak to Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations’ broader purpose, including what considerations we should have when doing research for social impact and when we have a duty to intervene to protect others.

Ethics in Management: Business and the Professions is essential reading for students across the disciplines of management, business, organizational behaviour, and ethics, policymakers, leaders and managers to gain knowledge of the moral considerations in the workplace, and responsibilities in research and intervention for societal welfare.

Jacqueline Boaks has a background in management, consultancy and academia. She has taught ethics and leadership at University of Western Australia, Notre Dame University and Curtin University. She teaches ethics to Bachelor of Commerce students and leadership and ethics to MBA students at the Curtin Graduate School of Business, Australia. She is Vice President of the Executive Committee of the Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics, the founder of the WA Ethics Outside Philosophy group, the co-editor of Leadership and Ethics (Bloomsbury) and has published widely on democracy, ethics and leadership.