Business ethics and social responsibility

This edited collection critically explores the efforts of the apparel industry to improve safety conditions and suggests governance reforms that will resolve lingering issues.

With a particular focus on the British printing industry, this book tackles the ongoing issue of pay inequality and examines the challenges facing many women today.

This book explores our ethical responsibilities regarding health in general and disabilities in particular.

This book suggests that the solution to the current leadership crisis lies in leaders' self-cultivation process, emanating from their deepest values and culminating in their contribution to the common good.

Named one of the Best books of 2024: Business by the Financial TimesAn indispensable guide to help companies navigate the new era of ethical challenges and risks in a volatile global landscape.

Did Chinese mysticism vanish after its first appearance in ancient Taoist philosophy, to surface only after a thousand years had passed, when the Chinese had adapted Buddhism to their own culture?

How the I Ching became one of the most widely read and influential books in the worldThe I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago.

The legitimate and illegitimate use of incentives in society todayIncentives can be found everywhere-in schools, businesses, factories, and government-influencing people's choices about almost everything, from financial decisions and tobacco use to exercise and child rearing.

How beauty leads to better jobs, better wages, and better spousesMost of us know there is a payoff to looking good, and in the quest for beauty we spend countless hours and billions of dollars on personal grooming, cosmetics, and plastic surgery.

More than ten years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, this book critically reviews the achievements, limits and next frontiers of business and human rights following the 'protect, respect, remedy' trichotomy.

A chairman and CEO shares his principles for leading a company to prosper financially, socially, and spiritually.

You may not realize it, but you helped pay for a $10 million, fourteen-month government "e;investigation"e; of the housing collapse.

The chief executive officer (CEO) of a corporation and his or her executive team are responsible for the management of the business and its continued operating and financial success.

Drawing on South and East Asian philosophies and medicines, this book illustrates how our bodies and minds are influenced by our actions, habits, aging, trauma and thought patterns.

Immersing the mind with the concepts of the Daoist path of health and immortality, Clouds over Qingcheng Mountain invokes the sacred birthplace of one of China's mystical mountains that has stimulated both mind and body for generations.

Developing and Using Consultancy Skills supports students and practitioners in their understanding of the meaning of consultancy and the skills required in consulting in a learning and development context.

Sustainability is an increasingly urgent and important factor in logistics and supply chain management, impacting the whole supply chain lifecycle from product design and development, to supplier management, packaging, transportation, warehousing and distribution.

Volume 2 of Logistics, Supply Chain and Procurement Case Study Collection contains new case studies tackling Supply Chain and Procurement issues, aiming to provide solutions affecting a range of different businesses.

Shopper Marketing details how marketers can influence the buying decision in-store.

Vulnerability to sudden supply chain disruption is one of the major threats facing companies today.

Sustainagility is about the ability to solve some of the world's most complex sustainability challenges with rapidly evolving business innovations, applications, methods, products and processes, adapted to changing situations.

Social and environmental issues are more important than ever and consumers are committed to supporting change.

Organizations promote all sorts of activities.

Dieses Buch zeigt auf, wie verschiedene Formen des unternehmerischen Engagements als bereichernde Komponenten in die Stadtentwicklung einfließen können.

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 21st annual 'Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics' Conference.

Alasdair MacIntyre described humans as storytelling animals.

This edited collection emerged from the need to know how business schools in Asia are inculcating responsible management.

Every year, more businesses fail because of their old-school views toward cutting costs, and they usually begin with the supply chain.

Increasingly today, in every age group, consumers are committing to brands that show good citizenship--from fair employment practices, to social responsibility, to charitable giving.

This volume of Research on Emotions in Organizations contributesto the ongoing study of the emotion-related forces that shape the functioning of individual, interpersonal workplace relationships and the organizationalsystem as a whole.

This book investigates both the ethical paragons involved in small business ethical decision-making process and their consequences and the implementation of the right culture in small business as a paragon of stability and growth.

What does it mean to be human-centric?

Climate chaos and pollution, deforestation and consumerism: the crisis facing human civilization is clear enough.

Using a sophisticated approach that unifies the three key areas of supply chain strategies, sales and operations planning (SOP), and lean manufacturing, The Market-Driven Supply Chain is the only book that takes a comprehensive approach to succeeding in today's on-demand environment.

In times of constant change, adaptive leadership is critical.

Buddhism and Taoism remain vibrant and prominent in Singapore's religious landscape.

Do ethics pay?

Evolving stories of governance and change are being written into the emerging custom and practice of all kinds of organizations today, whether they are global or domestic, startup or blue chip, corporate or government agency.

Social Media Ethics Made Easy takes an in-depth look at the risks of social, digital and mobile media marketing without structured policies.

Over the last decade Lean and Six Sigma methods and tools have helped organizations improve to historic productivity levels with the data driven, systematic elimination of waste and improvement of flow.

The business environment in the twenty-first century is truly global in scope.

The challenge facing leaders in the 21st century is to restore stakeholder trust, build employee commitment, and create organizations that are able to sustain long-term competitive advantage.

If you're an executive dealing with extended supply chains, you live with stress and worry.

Every company must continually wrestle with the problem of deciding the right quantity and mix of products or services that it should produce as well as when and where to produce them.

The purpose of this book is to trace the history of globalization and its impact on supply chain management and to look at the problems and some of the solutions facing global supply chains in the current era.

It was once believed that business and ethics constituted separate andmutually exclusive realms.

This book is a brief introduction to sustainability as it applies to business and offers an overview of how sustainability is applied throughout the organization.