Abstract

Business ethics is a multidimensional field of applied ethics that examines the ethical policies, principles, and moral challenges arising in and through the operations of organizations. Human behavior presents vigorous internal driving forces regarding a personal code of conduct; hence, moral awareness can be quite different among individuals. This book focuses on practices and the development of moral thinking in the context of corporate policy making. It describes moral reasoning by demonstrating the moral entity consideration principle. It is vital to understand the human thinking process as a medium to exploit available resources and develop ethical and rational policies to achieve corporate efficiency.

Considering the responsibility of human resources to incorporate business ethics into organizational practice, individual behavior is the key element to create a valuable business culture of fairness, meritocracy, transparency, and trust. The content of the book emphasizes on developing moral and rational thinking skills for corporate governance, and therefore an ethical thinking attitude. It examines how to ethically deal with the demanding corporate policies and procedures, providing a timeless comprehensive guide on how to leverage human resources in organizations and retain a moral identity through rational behavior.

This book is perfect for executives and practitioners in the business ethics field, as well as for scholars and advanced business students who want to enter the corporate world, aiming to develop their mindset capacity of ethical thinking by analyzing the moral aspects of each challenge posed.

Keywords

business ethics; corporate policies; rational policies; human resources; HRM; moral entity consideration; moral thinking, ethical behavior; human behavior; leadership; management; organizational culture; ethical information systems; employment relations