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- A Better Way to Think About Business: How Personal Integrity Leads to Corporate Success
Excellence in business depends on "integrity, values and virtues" as much as profits, says philosopher Robert C. Solomon. In A Better Way to Think About Business, Solomon says that business leaders sh...
Citation: Solomon, Robert C. 1999. A Better Way to Think About Business: How Personal Integrity Leads to Corporate Success. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Areas of Interest: Labour - Employee, Leadership
- A Canadian Success Story? Gildan Activewear: T-shirts, Free Trade and Worker Rights
This report is essential reading for researchers, policy-makers and activists in Canada and elsewhere who are interested in the promotion of corporate responsibility and ensuring improvements for workers as world trade evolves....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network and Honduran Independent Monitoring Team (EMIH). 2003. A Canadian Success Story? Gildan Activewear: T-shirts, Free Trade and Worker Rights. Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN)
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Labour - Employee
- A Comparison of Labour Standards in the United States and Canada
This article introduces a methodology for measuring differences in the labour standards between the United States and Canada, taking into account variations by state and province....
Citation: Block, Richard N. and Roberts, Karen. 2000. A Comparison of Labour Standards in the United States and Canada (June 15, 2000). Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, Vol. 55, No. 2, 2000. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1673897
Areas of Interest: Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety
- A Framework for Discussing Normative Theories of Business Ethics
This paper carries forward the conceptual clarification of normative theories of business ethics ably begun by Hasnas in the January 1998 issue of BEQ. This paper proposes a normatively neutral framew...
Citation: John Douglas Bishop. 2000. A Framework for Discussing Normative Theories of Business Ethics. Business Ethics Quarterly 10 (3):563-591.
Areas of Interest: Labour - Employee, Theory - ISCT, Theory - Stakeholder
- Acquired Disability and Returning to Work: Towards a Stakeholder Approach
This article examines the potential application of stakeholder theory to the case of a disabled worker returning to work. A gated notion combining both the instrumental and ethical views of stakeholde...
Citation: Yue, Anthony R. 2008. Acquired Disability and Returning to Work: Towards a Stakeholder Approach. In Journal of Workplace Rights 13 (1):73-91.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Labour - Employee, Theory - Stakeholder
- Affirmative Action As A Form Of Restitution
Though the common sense defense of affirmative action (or employment equity) appeals to principles of restitution, philosophers have tried to defend it in other ways....
Citation: Groarke, Leo. . 1990. Affirmative Action As A Form Of Restitution. Journal of Business Ethics 9 (3):207-213.
Areas of Interest: Labour - Employee, Theory
- Aging and Work in Canada: Firm Policies
In Canada, public policy sets only a very broad framework concerning older worker issues. Few Canadian firms have explicit policies dealing with the aging of their workforces but many firm policies have unanticipated consequences for older workers and the age composition of the workforce. Focusing on downsizing, we draw on five Canadian case studies of firms in different sectors and with varying policy initiatives....
Citation: Marshall, Victor W. and Joanne Gard Marshall. 2003. Aging and Work in
Canada: Firm Policies. Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Vol. 28, pp.
625-639, October. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=447314
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Labour - Employee, Public Policy
- Alienation and Empowerment: Some Ethical Imperatives in Business
The issue of worker alienation in the context of business ethics is critically examined. From a normative perspective, it is assumed that the minimal ethical requirement in business should include acc...
Citation: Kanungo, Rabindra N. 1992. Alienation and Empowerment: Some Ethical Imperatives in Business. Journal of Business Ethics 11 (5/6):413-422.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Labour - Employee
- Androgyny and Leadership Style
Research on leadership has either ignored women or focused on sex differences. This paper illustrates how both of these strategies have been detrimental to women. An alternative conception based on se...
Citation: Korabik, Karen. 1990. Androgyny and Leadership Style. Journal of Business Ethics 9 (4/5):283-292.
Areas of Interest: Gender, Labour - Employee, Leadership
- Are Women Different and Why are Women Thought to Be Different? Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
The existing literature on gender differences and stereotyping is reviewed in this article. Three theoretical perspectives are discussed: person-centred, organization-centred, and gender context, foll...
Citation: Gregory, Ann. 1990. Are Women Different and Why are Women Thought to Be Different? Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives. Journal of Business Ethics 9 (4/5):257-266.
Areas of Interest: Gender, Labour - Employee, Theory
- Balancing Sweatshop Ethics and Economics
The referenced paper is one of the first to attempt to use ethics in order to provide guidelines for the labor activities of international commercial organizations. The paper seeks to find a balance b...
Citation: L. Hartman, B. Shaw and R. Stevenson. 1999. Balancing Sweatshop Ethics and Economics. University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Development, Economic, Human Rights, Labour, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Public Policy, Theory
- Beyond Compliance
Illustrates the inadequacy of mere compliance with policies to answer the need for ethics. Irreplacability of core values and the integration of ethics in business and workplace transactions; Trust as...
Citation: Girard, Diane. 2000. Beyond Compliance. Executive Excellence 17 (5):16.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Labour - Employee
- Big and Little Brother: The Potential Erosion of Workplace Privacy in Canada
The Canadian Federal Government has repeatedly called for increased access to proprietary databases for lawful purposes. Employers therefore face a distinct possibility that their monitoring and surveillance data will be routinely accessed by various government and law enforcement agencies. Since in many provinces workers enjoy little legal protection of their right to a private life, and since new legal protective measures are unlikely, employers must look to their role as socially responsible members of a liberal and democratic society, and respect the rule of law by minimizing their collection of personal worker information....
Citation: Levin, Avner. 2007. Big and Little Brother: The Potential Erosion of Workplace Privacy in Canada. Canadian Journal of Law and Society/Revue Canadienne Droit et Societe, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 197-230. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1760058
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Labour - Employee
- Business Ethics
This book provides comprehensive, integrated coverage of the entire field of business ethics. It begins with an overview of today's business scene, then explores the basic tools and techniques of ethi...
Citation: DeGeorge, Richard T. 1999. Business Ethics. 5 ed: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Poverty, Theory
- Business Ethics (Basic Ethics in Action)
This book aspires to introduce the student to important ethical issues that arise in the world of business. As such, it fits into that branch of ethics referred to as Applied Professional Ethics. Busi...
Citation: Boylan, Michael. 2000. Business Ethics (Basic Ethics in Action): Prentice Hall
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Gender, Labour - Employee
- Business Ethics: Case Studies and Selected Readings
This text provides real-life examples of ethical dilemmas, poor ethical choices, and wise ethical decisions from the newspapers, business journals and the author's experiences as a consultant and boar...
Citation: Jennings, Marianne Moody. 1998. Business Ethics: Case Studies and Selected Readings. 3 ed: South-Western Educational Publishing.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Corruption, Education, Environment & Business, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Leadership, Theory - Shareholder, Theory - Stakeholder
- Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases
This book provides readers with a clear, straightforward writing style, an abundance of examples, detailed real-life cases, and current data and statistics. It aims to 1) introduce ethical concepts th...
Citation: Velasquez, Manuel G. 2001. Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases. Boston: Pearson Education Inc.
Areas of Interest: Education, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Theory
- Business in Ethical Focus: An Anthology
Business in Ethical Focus is a compilation of classical and contemporary essays on business ethics. Approximately 50 essays are organized into five units: Corporate Social Responsibility; Rights and O...
Citation: Allhoff, Fritz and Anand J.Vaidya, eds. 2008. Business in Ethical Focus: An Anthology. Peterborough: Broadview Press.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Theory
- Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment
Offering the best preparation for future managers, teaches you how to understand and apply legal and ethical concepts to real business. Going further than simply introducing you to the legal environme...
Citation: Jennings, Marianne Moody. 1996. Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment 4th Bk&CD ed: South-Western Pub.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Economic - Environmental, Education, Environment & Business, Globalization, Labour - Employee, Public Policy - Regulation, Sustainability
- Canadian Business Sustainability Challenges 2012
This report presents the key sustainability challenges facing leading businesses for 2012. These priorities were established by a council of executives from Canadian organizations recognized for their leadership in sustainability. Representing major sectors of the economy, these leaders gatheredfor a one-day roundtable facilitated by Dr. Tima Bansal, Executive Director of the Network for Business Sustainability....
Citation: Network
for
Business Sustainability. 2012. Canadian Business Sustainability Challenges 2012. Network for Business Sustainability. Retrieved
from: nbs.net/knowledge
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Labour - Employee, Public Policy - Regulation, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability, Theory - Stakeholder
- Canadian Business Sustainability Priorities 2011
This report describes the key areas where businesses have requested better knowledge. The top ten issues have been identified by our Leadership Council: a council of managers from leading organizations across major sectors of the economy. The purpose of this report is to inspire new research in these issues. Armed with this knowledge, researchers, managers and others can collaborate to innovate new solutions....
Citation: Network
for
Business Sustainability. 2011. Canadian Business
Sustainability Priorities 2011. Network for Business Sustainability. Retrieved
from: nbs.net/knowledge
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Indigenous People, Labour - Employee, Leadership, Public Policy - Regulation, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Challenges for the German model of employee relations in the era of globalization
In this paper we investigate the challenges posed to the German model of employee relations by the different internationalizing strategies of multinational companies (MNCs) in the heavy engineering se...
Citation: K. Williams, M. Geppert and D. Matten. 2003. Challenges for the German model of employee relations in the era of globalization. In First International HRM Conference in Estonia 'People Friendly Management'. Tallinn, Estonia.
Areas of Interest: Globalization, Labour - Employee
- Code of Conduct
The article reports on the efforts of the Human Resources Institute and Canadian Management Centre (HRI/CMC) to promote business ethics as the primary business concern of human resource managers. Jay...
Citation: Bowness, Sue. 2007. Code of Conduct. HR Professional 24 (1):15-15.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Labour - Employee
- Compendium of Ethics Codes and Instruments of Corporate Responsibility
This compendium of ethics codes and instruments of corporate responsibility was been compiled as a companion to the book Ethics Codes, Corporations and the Challenge of Globalization edited by Wesley...
Citation: McKague, Kevin. 2006. Compendium of Ethics Codes and Instruments of Corporate Responsibility, edited by W. Cragg. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Schulich School of Business, York University.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Corporate Governance
Corporate governance (CG) is one of the most talked about topics in business, indeed in society, today. A Google search revealed 513 news citations during a single week in June 2006. Most academics, b...
Citation: Social Entrepreneurship. 2006. The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Consumer Issues, Development, Economic - Social, Gender, Globalization, Human Rights, Indigenous People, Labour, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Poverty
- Corporate Social Responsibility in Canada: The 2009 Ivey-Jantzi Research Report
This report is the result of an ongoing collaboration between the Richard Ivey School of Business (Ivey) and Jantzi Research, an independent investment research firm located in Toronto, Ontario. It is the second edition of the Ivey-Jantzi Research Report....
Citation: Cara Maurer; Brent Mcknight; Natalie Slawinski; Michael Wood; Tima Bansal. 2009. Corporate Social Responsibility in Canada: The 2009 Ivey-Jantzi Research Report: Ivey-Jantzi.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic - Environmental, Economic - Social, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, SRI/Responsible Investment
- Critical Elements of an Organizational Ethical Culture
In the 2005 National Business Ethics Survey ® (NBES), the Ethics Resource Center (ERC) finds that a formal ethics and compliance program alone does not substantially impact outcomes. Additional analys...
Citation: Amber Levanon Seligson; Laurie Choi. 2006. Critical Elements of an Organizational Ethical Culture: Ethics Resource Center.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Education, Labour - Employee, Leadership, Theory
- Crossing the Boundaries of Obligation: Are Corporate Salaries a Form of Bribery?
Trans-National Corporations (TNCs) pay relatively high salaries to local people in host countries. TNCs assume that such employees will accept an employee-employer relationship similar to that which e...
Citation: Bishop, John Douglas. 2004. Crossing the Boundaries of Obligation: Are Corporate Salaries a Form of Bribery? Journal of Business Ethics 55 (1):1-11.
Areas of Interest: Corruption, Labour - Employee
- Cross-Sex Relationships at Work and the Impact of Gender Stereotypes
Organizations pride themselves on their creation of rational structures based primarily on a male perspective of interaction. Workers are expected to set aside interpersonal behaviours that do not dir...
Citation: Devine, Irene; Markiewicz, Dorothy. 1990. Cross-Sex Relationships at Work and the Impact of Gender Stereotypes. Journal of Business Ethics 9 (4/5):333-338.
Areas of Interest: Gender, Labour - Employee
- Discrimination Against Pregnant Employees: An Analysis of Arbitration and Human Rights Tribunal Decisions in Canada
Recent arbitration and human rights boards of inquiry cases involving discrimination against pregnant employees are reviewed. A comparison is made between remedies available under each procedure. It i...
Citation: Andiappan, P.; Reavley, M.; Silver, S. 1990. Discrimination Against Pregnant Employees: An Analysis of Arbitration and Human Rights Tribunal Decisions in Canada. Journal of Business Ethics 9 (2):143-149.
Areas of Interest: Economic - Social, Gender, Human Rights, Labour - Employee
- Down in the Vale: Corporate Globalization, Unions on the Defensive, and the USW Local 6500 Strike in Sudbury, 2009-2010
This article assesses one of the longest private sector strikes in Canadian history - the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 6500 strike at Vale in Sudbury, 2009-2010. It argues that in the context of corporate globalization and the recent financial crisis, Vale took full advantage of its economic power to win major concessions from Local 6500....
Citation: Peters, John. 2010. Down in the Vale: Corporate Globalization, Unions on the Defensive, and the USW Local 6500 Strike in Sudbury, 2009-2010. Labour/Le Travail, Vol. 66, pp. 73-106, Fall. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1739728
Areas of Interest: Globalization, Labour - Employee
- Eliminating the Barriers to Employment Equity in the Canadian Workplace
Have employment equity programs achieved the goal of equity for women in the workplace? We argue that they have not because gender stereotypes still persist. In fact, they may have created resentment...
Citation: Falkenberg, L. E.; Boland, L. 1997. Eliminating the Barriers to Employment Equity in the Canadian Workplace. Journal of Business Ethics 16 (9):963-975.
Areas of Interest: Gender, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Public Policy - Regulation
- Employee Governance and the Ownership of the Firm
Employee governance, which includes employee ownership and employee participation in decision making, is regarded by many as morally preferable to control of corporations by shareholders. However, emp...
Citation: Boatright, John R. 2004. Employee Governance and the Ownership of the Firm. Business Ethics Quarterly 14 (1):1-21.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Labour - Employee, Theory - Shareholder
- Employee Volunteering and Social Capital: Contributions To Corporate Social Responsibility
Employee Volunteering (EV) has been analysed as a human resource strategy but not yet as a form of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). As EV is increasingly regarded as a means of improving compani...
Citation: J.N. Muthuri, D. Matten and J. Moon. 2007. Employee Volunteering and Social Capital: Contributions To Corporate Social Responsibility British Journal of Management 19:33.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Labour - Employee
- Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society
As a field of study, business ethics aims to specify the principles under which businesses must operate to behave ethically. Thus business ethics focuses on such issues as those that have recently att...
Citation: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, edited by R. W. Kolbe. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2008.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Gender, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Theory
- Ethical Behaviours in Organizations: Directed by the Formal or Informal Systems?
Past research has focused on individual culpability with the assumption that individuals will further their own self interest over that of the organization, given an appropriate opportunity. In contra...
Citation: Falkenberg, Loren; Herremans, Irene. 1995. Ethical Behaviours in Organizations: Directed by the Formal or Informal Systems? Journal of Business Ethics 14 (2):133-143.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Economic - Social, Labour - Employee
- Ethical Theory and Business
This book presents a comprehensive anthology of readings, legal perspectives, and cases in ethics in business. Contrasting business ethics approaches, Regulation of business, Performance Monitoring. G...
Citation: Tom L. Beauchamp and Norman E. Bowie. 1996. Ethical Theory and Business. 5 ed: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Globalization, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Theory, Theory - Shareholder, Theory - Stakeholder
- Ethical Trade Futures: Strategies for Campaigners
High profile campaigns such as those directed at Shell and Nike have shown that NGOs can turn corporate unethical behaviour into a cost which business is keen to avoid. Where is this process heading?...
Citation: Simon Zadek. 2002. Ethical Trade Futures: Strategies for Campaigners. id21 Development Research Reporting Service.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Globalization, Human Rights, Labour - Employee
- Ethics and Corporate Governance: The Issues Raised by the Cadbury Report in the United Kingdom
In the late 1980s there was a series of sensational business scandals in the United Kingdom. There was particular public outrage at the plundering of pension funds by Robert Maxwell, at the failure of...
Citation: Boyd, Colin. 1996. Ethics and Corporate Governance: The Issues Raised by the Cadbury Report in the United Kingdom. Journal of Business Ethics 15 (2):167-182.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Corporate Governance, Labour, Labour - Employee
- Ethics and the Conduct of Business
Ethics and the Conduct of Business, 6/e is a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of the most prominent issues in the field of business ethics and the major positions and arguments on these issues....
Citation: Boatright, John R. 2008. Ethics and the Conduct of Business. 6 ed: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety
- Exposing the Boss: A Study in Canadian Journalism Ethics
This study examines the collective agreement tools which allow journalists to take ethical stands and which offer them some protection against retribution by their employers for their actions. It argues that those instruments can help them win day-to-day battles, but, in the long run, their status as employees subjects them, for better or for worse, to their employers ethics. It also examines whether a policy of national editorials in CanWest Global Communications Corp.s Southam newspapers constitutes a threat to diversity of ideas, editorial opinion and the news reported in those newspapers....
Citation: Bob Bergen. 2002. Exposing the Boss: A Study in Canadian Journalism Ethics. Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Labour - Employee
- Freedom of Association in a Free Enterprise System: Wal-Mart in Jonquière
This paper first examines Wal-Mart’s well-documented pattern of resistance to unionization. It then considers whether the majority’s position is defensible in the light of the wording of the Quebec statute, the Court’s previous commitment to the purposive interpretation of statutory unfair labour practice provisions, and its recent commitment to protecting collective bargaining as an important derivative of the guarantee of freedom of association in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Particular attention is paid to the origins of the idea, especially in the United States, that an employer has the right to close a business even in order to avoid a union, and to how that idea has been addressed by labour boards across Canada....
Citation: MacNeil, Michael. 2010. Freedom of Association in a Free Enterprise System: Wal-Mart in Jonquiere (December 30). Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 495-540. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1732612
Areas of Interest: Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Public Policy - Regulation
- From Implicit to Explicit: Putting Corporate Values and Personal Accountability Front and Centre
Organizational values often seem like abstractions. But if employees are to grasp and live those values every day, leaders need to develop and implement strategies that bring those values to life, tha...
Citation: Patten, Rose M. 2004. From Implicit to Explicit: Putting Corporate Values and Personal Accountability Front and Centre. Ivey Business Journal, September/October, pp. 1-5.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Labour - Employee
- Get Aggressive About Passivity
If managers always acted on their values, heroic whistle-blowing might never be required. But, research shows, people don't think that doing the right thing is part of their jobs. Co-authored by Judit...
Citation: Samuelson, Judith, and Mary Gentile. 2005. Get Aggressive About Passivity The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Labour - Employee
- How Including Volunteers Changes a Financial Statement: The Expanded Value Added Statement
This study shows how the inclusion of volunteers in a Value Added Statement tells a very different story from a Value Added Statement based on audited financial information only. This modified stateme...
Citation: Laurie Mook, Betty Jane Richmond & Jack Quarter. 2003. How Including Volunteers Changes a Financial Statement: The Expanded Value Added Statement. Voluntary Action 6 (1):75-88.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Corporate Governance - Transparency, Labour - Employee, Theory - Stakeholder
- Improving The Way You Negotiate
The article offers information on the best alternative to a negotiated agreement (BATNA) approach in Canada. Accordingly, BATNA is an outcome of an expectation to achieve things even if there is no es...
Citation: Howick, Wallace M. 2007. Improving The Way You Negotiate. CA Magazine 140 (8):10-10.
Areas of Interest: Labour - Employee
- In Shouts and Whispers: Paradoxes Facing Women of Colour in Organizations
This paper draws attention to issues of race and gender and their intersections. The choices faced by women of colour are framed as a series of paradoxes that need to be acknowledged, if not resolved....
Citation: Karambayya, Rekha. 1997. In Shouts and Whispers: Paradoxes Facing Women of Colour in Organizations. Journal of Business Ethics 16 (9):891-897.
Areas of Interest: Gender, Human Rights, Labour - Employee
- Institutionalized Resistance to Organizational Change: Denial, Inaction and Repression
An extensive theoretical and research literature on organizational change and its implementation has been accumulating over the past fifty years. Organization development perspectives on organizationa...
Citation: Agocs, Caroline. 1997. Institutionalized Resistance to Organizational Change: Denial, Inaction and Repression. Journal of Business Ethics 16 (9):917-931.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Leadership
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