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  1. Should corporations be socially responsible and green?

  • Prof. Joe DesJardins
• 42 min
  2. The virtuous manager

  • Prof. Geoff Moore
• 32 min
  3. How can companies be corporately socially responsible?

  • Prof. Jeremy Moon
• 43 min
  4. Multinational corporations and abusive states: should they stay put and make things better or withdraw?

  • Prof. Colin Fisher
• 45 min
  5. Compliance or integrity?

  • Mr. Simon Webley
• 26 min
  6. Who are an organization's stakeholders and to what extent should an organization have regard to their interests?

  • Mr. John Kaler
• 40 min
  7. Sustainability and corporate environmental management

  • Mr. John Elkington
• 46 min
  8. Whistleblowers or Witnesses

  • Prof. Alan Lovell
• 33 min
  9. Green procurement

  • Dr. Petra Molthan-Hill
• 50 min
  10. Ethical leadership

  • Dr. Ian Ashman
• 54 min
  11. Supersizing and upselling in fast food restaurants and bars: what responsibility have companies got if customers choose to consume too much fast food or too much alcohol?

  • Dr. John Pratten
• 35 min
  12. Corporate governance after the credit crunch

  • Prof. Christine Mallin
• 52 min
  13. Socially responsible investment

  • Prof. Chris Cowton
• 24 min
  14. Corporate philanthropy

  • Dr. David Campbell
• 40 min
  15. SMEs and the environment

  • Dr. Richard Howarth
• 17 min
  16. Ethical aspects of cross-cultural ethical management

  • Prof. Nigel Holden
• 39 min
  17. Information ethics

  • Dr. Paul Griseri

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Navigable Slide Index

1. Introduction
2. Aims of this lecture
3. Information ethics (IE) and ICTE
4. Defining 'information'
5. 'Information' by Floridi
6. Expectations of individuals
7. Societal expectations
8. The ethical assumptions behind information
9. Information and processes
10. So what can go wrong, ethically?
11. Information needs
12. Collection methods
13. Sense making
14. Storage
15. Access at a later date
16. The social impact of information
17. Some key individual issues
18. Key societal issues
19. Unethical information management risks
20. Legal rights
21. Employee use of email and telephone
22. Employment practice data protection code
23. Use of email and telephone: the organization
24. Use of email and telephone: the individual
25. Employee personal communications dilemma
26. Managing information ethics
27. Ethical theories and information
28. Results orientation
29. Motive orientation
30. Character orientation
31. Stakeholder management
32. Stakeholders and information
33. Policies and practices that encourage effective IE
34. Concluding remarks
35. Some further reading and sources
36. Any questions

Topics Covered

• Information ethics
• Philosophy of information
• Corporate surveillance
• Corporate espionage
• Data protection

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Series:

• Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Categories:

• Management, Leadership & Organisation

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Publication History

• Published on February 1, 2011