Positive Social Identity: The Quantitative Analysis of Ethics

ISBN-13: 9781472480880 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 252 str.

Nick Duncan

Opis

Conventionally, ethics and organisations have been treated through an analysis of what individuals and organisations ought to do. Rather than ask what organisations ought to do to be ethical, this book reverses the question to consider what attributes are salient in organisations that are considered ethical by their stakeholders; and how it is that they actually decide what to do. Establishing a framework for the analysis of exemplary organisation within a development (or any) setting, the book seeks to facilitate the re-claiming of such identities by the countries and cultures in which they thrive. The principal aims of the book are: To develop a theoretical framework linking the attributes of positive social identity and the likelihood of ethical behaviour towards internal and external stakeholders. To introduce a quantitative ethical analysis into the field of ethic within the development community and organisational analysis more generally, and thereby stimulate scholarly debate and enable hypothesis testing. To develop a naturalistically grounded account of ethical decision making To provide indicators of ethical capacity on which interventions may be designed and their impact evaluated over time. "