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  • Obstacles to Ethical Decision-Making

    Mental Models, Milgram and the Problem of Obedience

    by Patricia H. Werhane, Laura Pincus Hartman, Crina Archer, Elaine E. Englehardt, Michael S. Pritchard ...
    In commerce, many moral failures are due to narrow mindsets that preclude taking into account the moral dimensions of a decision or action. In turn, sometimes these mindsets are caused by failing to question managerial decisions from a moral point of view, because of a perceived authority of management. In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram conducted controversial experiments to investigate just how far ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Everyday Greed: Analysis and Appraisal

    Edited by Michael S. Pritchard, Elaine E. Englehardt ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This collection examines how greed should be understood and appraised. Roundly condemned by virtually all religions, greed receives mixed appraisals in the domains of business and economics. The volume examines these mixed appraisals and how they fare in light of their implications for greed in our everyday world. Greed in children is uniformly criticized by parents, other adults, and even ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Ethics Across the Curriculum—Pedagogical Perspectives

    Edited by Elaine E. Englehardt, Michael S. Pritchard ...
    This book features articles by more than twenty experienced teachers of ethics who are committed to the idea that ethics can and should be taught virtually anywhere in the education curriculum. They explore a variety of ways in which this might best be done.Traditionally confined largely to programs in philosophy and religion, the teaching of ethics has in recent decades spread across the ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • The Ethical Challenges of Academic Administration

    Edited by Elaine E. Englehardt, Michael S. Pritchard, Kerry D. Romesburg, Brian Schrag ...
    This book is an invitation to academic administrators, at every level, to engage in reflection on the ethical dimensions of their working lives. Academics are very good at reflecting on the ethical issues in other professions but not so interested in reflecting on those in their own, including those faced by faculty and administrators. Yet it is a topic of great importance. Academic institutions ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • When the State Meets the Street

    Public Service and Moral Agency

    by Bernardo Zacka ...
    When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives. Combining insights ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Cult of Efficiency

    by Janice Gross Stein ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be part of the conversation when resources are scarce and citizens and governments have important choices to make among competing priorities.Even when the language of ... Read more

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  • The Moral Economy

    Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens

    by Samuel Bowles ...
    Series series Castle Lectures Series
    Should the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding “no.” Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may “crowd out” ethical and generous motives and thus backfire.   But incentives per se are not really the culprit. Bowles ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

    Edited by Walter W. Powell, Paul J. DiMaggio ...
    Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis.In their introduction, the editors discuss points of convergence and ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Thought of Work

    by John W. Budd ...
    John W. Budd's The Thought of Work provides a much needed and highly eloquent statement of the meanings and orientations to work across time and nations. It is essential reading for students of work from senior scholars to beginning undergraduates.— Randy Hodson, Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences The Ohio State University and past editor ― American Sociological ReviewBy ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Institutions and Organizations

    Ideas, Interests, and Identities

    by W. Richard Scott ...
    Creating a clear, analytical framework, this comprehensive exploration of the relationship between institutional theory and the study of organizations continues to reflect the richness and diversity of institutional thought—viewed both historically and as a contemporary, ongoing field of study. Drawing on the insights of cultural and organizational sociologists, institutional economists, social ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • The New Public Service

    Serving, Not Steering

    by Janet V. Denhardt, Robert B. Denhardt ...
    The New Public Service: Serving, not Steering provides a framework for the many voices calling for the reaffirmation of democratic values, citizenship, and service in the public interest. It is organized around a set of seven core principles: (1) serve citizens, not customers; (2) seek the public interest; (3) value citizenship and public service above entrepreneurship; (4) think strategically, ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Stubborn Attachments

    A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    From a bestselling author and economist, a contemporary moral case for economic growth—and a dose of inspiration and optimism about our future possibilities.Growth is good. Throughout history, economic growth in particular has alleviated human misery, improved human happiness and opportunity, and lengthened human lives. Wealthier societies are more stable, offer better living standards, produce ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus