Ethics and Empowerment

Ethics and Empowerment is a major contribution to the ongoing debate about the role of business in society. People expect more meaning and empowerment at work at a time when competitive pressures are seducing business into taking ethical short-cuts. How is this to be reconciled? Through a thorough examination of the issues of power, control and autonomy addressing such questions as empowerment being a matter of justice, through case-study based examinations of the organisational experiences of empowerment programmes and through looking at the ethics and empowerment debate from the wider perspective of business and social responsibility, this book seeks to make ethics more relevant and accessible to today's business world.

RICHARD BADHAM Professor at the BHP Institute for Steel Processing and Products, Head of Research programme on Managing Innovation and Change Agent Cultures (MICAC), Wollongong University, AustraliaJOHNSTON BIRCHALL Lecturer in Public Policy, Brunel University, UKFREDERICK BIRD Professor of Comparative Ethics, Concordia University, Montreal, CanadaPAUL COUCHMAN Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Management of Integrated Technological and Organisational Change, Wollongong University, AustraliaJULIA M. CHRISTENSEN HUGHES Associate Professor, School of Hotel and Food Administration, University of Guelph, Ontario, CanadaBARBARA GOODWIN Professor of Politics, University of East Anglia, UKPETER JONES Consultant in change management and organisational developmentPAUL JOYCE Professor and Director of the Management Research Centre, University of North London, UKJOHN KALER Senior Lecturer, Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth, UKIAN MCLOUGHLIN Reader and Head of Management Studies, Brunel University, UKANNE MILLS Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organisational Change, Business School, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UKCHRIS MOON Senior Lecturer, Anglia Business School, UKEDNA OJEIFO Consultant in brand development and brand managementKEITH PHEBY formerly taught organisational ethics in US, UK and JapanCELIA STANWORTH Senior Lecturer in Human Resources and Industrial Relations, University of Greenwich, UKRICHARD WARREN Principal Lecturer, Department of Business Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKDIANA WINSTANLEY Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Imperial College Management School, UKADRIAN WOODS Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences, Brunel University, UK