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Responsible management [electronic resource] : understanding human nature, ethics, and sustainability / Kemi Ogunyemi.
Material type:
TextSeries: 2013 digital library | Principles for responsible management education collectionPublication details: [New York, N.Y.] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2013.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 electronic text (xxiv, 144 p.) : digital fileISBN: - 9781606495056 (electronic bk.)
- Social responsibility of business
- Management
- abstraction and reflection
- anthropology
- behavioral ethics
- business
- business and society
- career success
- case study
- character building
- commitment
- communication
- corporate social responsibility
- development
- diversity
- emotion
- ethics
- experiential learning
- freedom
- fulfillment
- human nature
- human resource management
- intellect
- leadership
- locus of control
- management
- managing people
- organizational behavior
- PRME
- respect
- responsibility
- sustainability
- values
- virtue
- will
- work
- workplace situations
- 658.408 23
- HD60 .O397 2013
- Also available in print.
Contents:
Abstract: This book serves as a valuable complementary text for courses on Ethics, Responsibility, Leadership, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Sustainability, which mostly tend to neglect their human nature dimensions. It provides an understanding of human nature and its uniqueness and complexity, which helps managers in today's business world to better manage and to respect self, others, and the environment. It also provides the foundation for learning ethical behavior, leadership, responsibility, sustainable management, and corporate social responsibility. Without this angle, an MBA might tend to focus primarily on financial success in different dimensions--operational quality, financial strategy, workforce motivation, cost-cutting strategies, etc. and people may forget to take cognizance of the implications of their own nature and that of the people through whom they have to work. Future leaders and shapers of sustainable organizations and societies cannot afford to have such a knowledge gap. Having these discussions helps students understand that the reason to be ethical goes beyond self-interest and profit motives to the very foundations of human nature.
Acknowledgment -- Testimonies -- 1. Introduction -- Module 1. Managing oneself -- 2. The human manager -- 3. The beginning of self-management -- 4. Abstraction and reflection -- 5. A capacity for good -- 6. Integration in complexity -- Module 2. Working with others -- 7. Diversity and uniqueness -- 8. All around the manager -- 9. People (not assets, resources, or capital) -- Module 3. Human progress -- 10. Setting personal and professional goals -- 11. Choosing the means -- 12. Scripting and re-scripting self -- 13. The manager at work -- Module 4. The full picture -- 14. Business in society -- 15. In conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
