Saving Human Lives : Lessons in Management Ethics / by Robert E. Allinson.
2005
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Saving Human Lives : Lessons in Management Ethics / by Robert E. Allinson.
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Edition
1st ed. 2005.
Imprint
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Description
XVIII, 354 p. online resource.
Series
Issues in business ethics. 0925-6733 ; 21.
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Accidents, Tragedies and Disasters
The Internal Relationship Between Ethics and Business
The Buck Stops Here and it Stops Everywhere Else as Well
Crisis Management and Disaster Prevention Management
The Vasa Disaster
The Titanic Disaster
The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
Post-Challenger Investigations
The Herald of Free Enterprise Disaster
The King's Cross Underground Fire
The Disaster on Mt. Erebus
Moral Responsibility and Techno-Organization.
The Internal Relationship Between Ethics and Business
The Buck Stops Here and it Stops Everywhere Else as Well
Crisis Management and Disaster Prevention Management
The Vasa Disaster
The Titanic Disaster
The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
Post-Challenger Investigations
The Herald of Free Enterprise Disaster
The King's Cross Underground Fire
The Disaster on Mt. Erebus
Moral Responsibility and Techno-Organization.
Summary
This is a pioneering work. Recent disasters such as the tsunami disaster continue to demonstrate Professor Allinson's thesis that valuing human lives is the core of ethical management. His unique comparison of the ideas of the power of Fate and High Technology, his penetrating analysis of the very concept of an "accident", demonstrate how concepts rule our lives. His wide-ranging investigation of court cases and government documents from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, and from places as diverse as the USA, UK and New Zealand provide ample supporting evidence for the universality and the power of explanation of his thesis. Saving Human Lives will have an impact beyond measurement on the field of management ethics. Patrica Werhane, Peter and Adelline Professor of Business Ethics, Darden School, University of Virginia and The Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics and Director, Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, Depaul University, Founding Editor, Business Ethics Quarterly, Honorary President, Society for Business Ethics 'Saving Human Lives gives a step by step account of how management systems can be built that can prevent hitherto "unpreventable" disasters. Professor Allinson weaves convincing arguments from original linguistic, literary and ethical analyses and shows how these arguments apply to highly detailed and well documented case studies. Those of us in the field of business ethics are grateful for this creative combination of philosophical argumentation and the marshalling of widespread, empirical evidence that persuades us that, notwithstanding commonly held beliefs, most industrial crises are preventable through sound management structures and decision-making processes only when they are rooted in ethical values and beliefs on the part of top management.' S. Prakash Sethi, President, International Center for Corporate Accountability, Inc., University Distinguished Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York.
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English
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9781402029806
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