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The Perceptions of Ethical and Sustainable
Leadership. McCann & Sweet
- First introduction of sustainable leadership
- Sustainable leadership definition McCann & Holt
- Brundtland commission definition
- The triple bottom line
- Ethical leadership definitions
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The sweatshop issue (Rana Plasa)
- Ultimately driven by the consumer, or the retailers' pandering attitude to the consumer.
- 'Give the customers what they want' is preposterous, and not sustainable.
- What about 'give the customers what they NEED?'
- We exploit countries that are in earlier stages of development than ourselves.
- How do you bring home the responsibility?
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The relevance of Thomas Aquinas’ moral philosophy for business management. Maciej Bazela, Ph.D.
- 'government regulation and self-regulating market mechanisms cannot prevent ethical wrongdoing'
- 'On the other hand, companies which care about ethically good management tend to enjoy higher profits, better productivity, lower employee turnover and other benefits'
- Money itself is a means that man has invented ‘for the convenience of exchange, and as a measure of things salable’ (ST, I-II, 2.1). Man seeks material possessions and money to procure for himself ‘the necessaries of life’.
- Money is an economic means, and not an end in itself. The purpose of money is to facilitate market exchange.
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Ethics
- Deontological
- Consequentialist
- Virtue ethics
- Aquinas bridges these
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Economics
- Friedman