The Individual in Business Ethics: An American Cultural Perspective (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230285538)

Today we are witnessing social and political dominance of large corporations. They provide for its employees moral values and business principles. Moreover, they institutionalize their codes of ethics. The theory of Business Ethics provides the moral guideline and standards for corporate life and concrete business organizations apply those standards to practice. The individual employee, as a member of a business organization, accepts those standards. Therefore, it is important to examine the foundation of the individual's moral value in Business Ethics in order to understand on what the foundation of the moral value depends on. This highly interdisciplinary text is a critique of Business Ethics as an ideology and life politics. The author discloses how contemporary business ethics grovels before corporations, how it is too weak to create a truly critical voice of American capitalist economy. The individual's treatment in corporate life is revealed through the eyes of American Protestant culture and its coercive work tradition where efficiency value usurps values of individual choice and freedom. This book suggests a new concept of an out-corporate individual.

Author: T. Kavaliauskas
ISBN-10: 0230285538
ISBN-13: 9780230285538
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/24/2010
Pages: 201
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2011 pg. 78