Business Ethics and Human Resources
Business ethics is a multidimensional field that most of us can instinctively understand. It is hard to be precisely defined as ethics reflects the norms and developments of each historical period. Given the subjectivity of the decision-making process, depending on the limitations of a unique individual (Ravitch 1989), the latter tend to put aside the ethical conduct under the pressure of nonstabilized environments unless an individual’s moral attitude is strong enough to avoid such dilemmas. In addition, the American Nobelist and economist Milton Friedman claimed that the only entities who can have responsibilities are people, not the businesses (Friedman 2007). Thus, considering that the corporation outcome is the result of individuals’ decisions on each aspect of its operations, we could conclude that business ethics cannot be applied when the conditions are not clear enough in the context of creating and developing a moral business culture.
The aim of this book is to introduce the reader to a demanding mindset world, where the individual must automatically think about ethics before the final behavior, without the need to remember the rules of moral conduct. Ethical thinking is different among individuals. Considering the repercussion of our practices to other entities is critical for both our career and the organization we work for. The content of this book is about exploring business ethics on a series of corporate procedures and challenges regarding human resources, organizational development, individual well-being, and employment relations. As a reader of Business Ethics and Rational Corporate Policies, you have automatic access to a range of concepts and moral thinking development schemes designed to enhance your ethical skills at a wide spectrum of moral awareness. This book gives practitioners such as policy makers, agents, managers and corporate leaders, public administrators, negotiators, and generally experts such as policy and education analysts, the essential tools to implement rational corporate policies under the dynamic pressure of business ethics. Additionally, academicians, scholars, and learners such as academic business students can develop their moral mindset capacity by reading this book as it contributes to the moral thinking process of human behavior at both practical and theoretical levels.