Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Why Good Management Requires Ethics

  • Chapter
Management Ethics

Part of the book series: IESE Business Collection ((IESEBC))

  • 1184 Accesses

Abstract

The author of these words was the CEO of Rowntree’s, a family business based in York, UK, whose activity was centered on confectionery.2 In Sheldon’s time, Rowntree’s was a growing company. He successfully restructured it and adopted a more functional style and professional culture.

Management in industry at the present time has the blood of a new youth coursing through its veins. It is full of a new vigour and a new enthusiasm. Its practice is being overhauled, both from the scientifi c and from the ethical points of view.1

OLIVER SHELDON (1894–1951), Chief Executive Offi cer and a writer on management in the 1920s

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 69.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

NOTES AND REFERENCES

Chapter 1

  1. 1 O. Sheldon (1923) The Philosophy of Management (London: Pitman & Sons) p. ix.

    Google Scholar 

  2. 4 P. Drucker (1999) Management Challenges of the 21st Century (New York: HarperCollins) p. 9.

    Google Scholar 

  3. 5 L. Boyer and N. Equilbey (1990) Histoire du Management (Paris: Éditions d’Organisation).

    Google Scholar 

  4. 6 R. E. Freeman (2000) ‘Business Ethics at the Millennium’, Business Ethics Quarterly, 10, 1, 172.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. 7 See D. Melé (2005) Manville Corp., World Leader in the Asbestos Industry (A). Case studies BE-159-E and BE-160-E (Barcelona: IESE Publishing).

    Google Scholar 

  6. 8 F. W. Taylor (1997) The Principles of Scientific Management (Dover Publications, Mineola, NY). First published in 1911 (Harper, New York). See a review in J. Boddewyn (1961) ‘Frederick Winslow Taylor Revisited’, The Journal of the Academy of Management, 2, 100–107.

    Google Scholar 

  7. 9 H. Fayol (1984) General and Industrial Management. Preface of L. Urwick (Pitman, London). First published in 1916 in French: Administration Industrielle et Générale; Prévoyance, Organisation, Commandement, Coordination, Controle (Paris: H. Dunod et E. Pinat).

    Google Scholar 

  8. 10 J. P. Kotter (1999) ‘What Effective General Managers Really Do’, Harvard Business Review, 77, 2, 145–159. First published in 1982.

    Google Scholar 

  9. 11 H. Mintzberg (2004) Managers not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers).

    Google Scholar 

  10. 14 R. T. Pascale and A. G. Athos (1981) The Art of Japanese Management (New York: Simon and Schuster).

    Google Scholar 

  11. 15 C.-C. Chen and Y.-T. Lee (eds) (2008) Leadership and Management in China. Philosophies, Theories and Practices (Cambridge University Press).

    Google Scholar 

  12. 16 J. Collins (2001) Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap, and Others Don’t (London: Random House).

    Google Scholar 

  13. 19 See, e.g., I. Hau-siu Chow (2008) ‘How Trust Reduces Transaction Costs and Enhances Performance in China’s Businesses’, SAM Advanced Management Journal, 2, 25–34.

    Google Scholar 

  14. 21 Mentioned by R. M. Kramer (2009) ‘Rethinking Trust’, Harvard Business Review, 87, 6, 69.

    Google Scholar 

  15. 25 D. Ross (1925) Aristotle The Nicomachean Ethics: translated with an Introduction (Oxford University Press) Book II, Chapter 1.

    Google Scholar 

  16. 26 P. H. Werhane and B. Moriarty (2009) Moral Imagination and Management Decision Making, p. 10: http://www.darden.virginia.edu/corporate-ethics/pdf/moraljmagination.pdf, date accessed 26 March 2011.

    Google Scholar 

  17. 27 M. Yunus (1999) Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty (PublicAffairs, New York).

    Google Scholar 

  18. 28 R. B. Shaw (1997) Trust in the Balance. Building Successful Organizations on Results, Integrity and Concern (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass).

    Google Scholar 

  19. 29 E. H. Schein (2010) Corporate Culture and Leadership, 4th edn (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass).

    Google Scholar 

  20. 30 K. R. Andrews (1989) ‘Ethics in Practice’, Harvard Business Review, 67, 5, 99–104.

    Google Scholar 

  21. 32 J. T. Whetstone (2003) ‘The Language of Managerial Excellence: Virtues as Understood and Applied’, Journal of Business Ethics, 44, 4, 343–357.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain

    Domènec Melé (Professor and Holder of the Chair of Business Ethics)

Authors
  1. Domènec Melé
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Copyright information

© 2012 Domènec Melé

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Melé, D. (2012). Why Good Management Requires Ethics. In: Management Ethics. IESE Business Collection. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230361560_1

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation