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Ethics and Empowerment

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. John J. Quinn

    1. Department of Management Studies, Brunel University, UK

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  2. Peter W. F. Davies

    1. Business School of Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Peter W. F. Davies, John J. Quinn
      Pages 1-22

  3. Is Empowerment Ethical? Why Ask the Question?

    1. Is Empowerment Ethical? Why Ask the Question?

      • John J. Quinn
      Pages 23-37

  4. Ethics and Empowerment: Power, Control and Autonomy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
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    2. Empowerment and Justice

      • Frederick B. Bird
      Pages 41-89

    3. Does Empowerment Empower?

      • John Kaler
      Pages 90-114

    4. Organisational Empowerment: A Historical Perspective and Conceptual Framework

      • Julia M. Christensen Hughes
      Pages 115-146

    5. Ethico-power and the City

      • Keith Pheby
      Pages 147-169

    6. Ethics, Empowerment and Ownership

      • Peter W. F. Davies, Anne Mills
      Pages 170-194

  5. Theory, and the Experience of Empowerment Strategies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
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    2. Beyond Rhetoric: A Typology of Empowerment Strategies Found Within One Organisation

      • Julia M. Christensen Hughes
      Pages 197-234

    3. Empowerment and Teams: Ethics and the Implementation of Socio-technical Systems

      • Ian Mcloughlin, Richard Badham, Paul Couchman
      Pages 235-270

    4. Negotiated Reality: The Meaning of Empowerment

      • Edna Ojeifo, Diana Winstanley
      Pages 271-299

    5. Empowerment in a Government Agency

      • Barbara Goodwin
      Pages 300-325

    6. Ethics and Empowerment: Managerial Discourse and the Case of Teleworking

      • Christopher Moon, Celia Stanworth
      Pages 326-343

  6. Business and Society: The New Empowerment Responsibility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 345-345
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    2. Empowering Consumers through Co-operatives

      • Johnston Birchall
      Pages 347-368

    3. Empowerment in a Community of Purpose

      • Richard C. Warren
      Pages 369-392

    4. The Social Responsibility of Businesses: To Empower Employees by Listening and Responding

      • Paul Joyce, Adrian Woods
      Pages 393-411

    5. Ethical Guidelines for an Empowered Organisation

      • Peter Jones
      Pages 412-425
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About this book

Ethics and Empowerment is a major contribution to the ongoing debate about the role of business in society. People expect more meaning and empowerment at work at a time when competitive pressures are seducing business into taking ethical short-cuts. How is this to be reconciled? Through a thorough examination of the issues of power, control and autonomy addressing such questions as empowerment being a matter of justice, through case-study based examinations of the organisational experiences of empowerment programmes and through looking at the ethics and empowerment debate from the wider perspective of business and social responsibility, this book seeks to make ethics more relevant and accessible to today's business world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Management Studies, Brunel University, UK

    John J. Quinn

  • Business School of Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK

    Peter W. F. Davies

About the editors

RICHARD BADHAM Professor at the BHP Institute for Steel Processing and Products, Head of Research programme on Managing Innovation and Change Agent Cultures (MICAC), Wollongong University, Australia JOHNSTON BIRCHALL Lecturer in Public Policy, Brunel University, UK FREDERICK BIRD Professor of Comparative Ethics, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada PAUL COUCHMAN Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Management of Integrated Technological and Organisational Change, Wollongong University, Australia JULIA M. CHRISTENSEN HUGHES Associate Professor, School of Hotel and Food Administration, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada BARBARA GOODWIN Professor of Politics, University of East Anglia, UK PETER JONES Consultant in change management and organisational development PAUL JOYCE Professor and Director of the Management Research Centre, University of North London, UK JOHN KALER Senior Lecturer, Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth, UK IAN MCLOUGHLIN Reader and Head of Management Studies, Brunel University, UK ANNE MILLS Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organisational Change, Business School, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK CHRIS MOON Senior Lecturer, Anglia Business School, UK EDNA OJEIFO Consultant in brand development and brand management KEITH PHEBY formerly taught organisational ethics in US, UK and Japan CELIA STANWORTH Senior Lecturer in Human Resources and Industrial Relations, University of Greenwich, UK RICHARDWARREN Principal Lecturer, Department of Business Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK DIANA WINSTANLEY Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Imperial College Management School, UK ADRIAN WOODS Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences, Brunel University, UK

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