Product Description
Understanding Business and Ethics in the South African Context (2nd edition)
Author: M Rathbone
Format: Physical Hardcopy
What are the socioeconomic opportunities and challenges that we face in Africa and South Africa specifically? How do we view work, business and organisations? Are there different ways to understand these activities? How can these activities be conducted in a responsible manner? What implications do responsible operations have for the strategy, governance and management of organisations?
The second edition of Understanding Business and Ethics in the South African Context provides an overview of the relationship between business and ethics from a contextual, integrative and practical perspective. The purpose of the book is to prepare undergraduate students to engage with ethical issues in the workplace and with socioeconomic opportunities and challenges in society in an accountable and responsible manner. The revision of the book was informed by new developments in business ethics, organisational management and governance.
Consequently, the chapters were updated to include recent case studies, statistical information, new legislation (e.g. POPIA) and company information. In addition, two chapters on organisational communication and governance, written by well-informed experts on the relevant topics, are included in the book. Finally, the chapters on interpretation and how we understand organisational activities and context were further expanded and refined.
Contents:
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Chapter 1 Business and context
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PART 1 UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS AND ETHICS Chapter 2 Understanding, culture and history Chapter 3 Understanding business ethics
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PART 2 UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT
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Chapter 4 Challenges faced by South Africa
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Chapter 5 Capitalism: a brief summary of its origin, development and critique
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Chapter 6 Historical, hermeneutical awareness: colonial, postcolonial and decolonial mentalities
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PART 3 UNDERSTANDING ETHICS IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT Chapter 7 Concepts in ethics theories Chapter 8 African moral theory
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PART 4 BUSINESS THEORY, GOVERNANCE AND STRATEGY
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Chapter 9 Business theories
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Chapter 10 Ethical culture and climate: management of ethics
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Chapter 11 Strategy, trust and corporate ethics
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Chapter 12 Organisational governance
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Chapter 13 Strategic integrated communication and integrated reporting
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PART 5 BUSINESS AND ETHICS IN PRACTICE
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Chapter 14 Business management: business ethics and corporate social responsibility
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Chapter 15 Ethics in employment relations
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Chapter 16 Green consumption and ethics
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Chapter 17 Finance
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Chapter 18 The role of business in contemporary technology
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