Management Ethics / IESE Business Collection (PDF)

DOMÈNEC MELÉ Full Professor of Business Ethics and holds the Chair of Business Ethics at IESE Business School, Spain and USA, one of world's leading business schools, with a particular commitment in integrating ethics and humanism into business. He has been teaching business ethics for more than twenty years.

'This is a splendid examination of the role of ethics and an ethical point of view in management. It places human agency at the centre of activities of leaders and followers. Proceeding from this human-centred foundation, the exploration reveals essential

connections among a wide variety of features of mixed market economies, including their long-term sustainability.' Alex C. Michalos, Editor in Chief, Journal of Business Ethics 'This is a terrific book on business ethics. Companies and executives will make better decisions if they read and study it.' R. Edward Freeman, Professor, Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, USA

'Ethics must be an integral part of managerial decision making. Today meeting highest ethical standards is a success factor. This book offers valuable guidance in putting ethics on the top the business agenda.' Peter Löescher, President and Chief Executive Officer Siemens AG

'Business leaders should heed Professor Melé's analysis. He argues that both organizational excellence and corporate responsibility are the result of good management and that good management, itself, requires an ethical foundation. The implications are

clear: instead of seeking to drive performance through ever more complex incentive and control systems, companies should work on developing the core competencies of their managers.' Lynn Sharp Paine, John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty Development, Harvard Business School

'Written by an accomplished teacher and scholar in the field of management ethics, Management Ethics provides a comprehensive overview of the connection between management and ethical principles. In a world increasingly characterized by short-term

behavior, that seemingly eschews considerations of sustainability and values, Domènec Melé has written an important book that tells why management decisions and ethical principles