Business Ethics (6^th Ed.)

Why do ethics make business sense? What is the social responsibility of business? What is the role of ethics within corporate governance? How should organisation manage ethics from within? Business Ethics sixth edition answers these and many other questions related to the field of Business Ethics. This textbook is suitable for BCom students following courses in ethics, and can also be used for graduate or postgraduate modules in business management and human resource management. Given the growing emphasis on corporate governance, the book is also of relevance to business ethics practitioners as it addresses key ethical issues affecting corporations in the twenty-first century. Business Ethics tracks global developments in areas such as corporate ethical culture and highlights the relevance thereof within the southern African context.

Deon Rossouw was the founding president of the BusinessEthics Network of Africa (BEN-Africa) and president of theInternational Society for Business Economics and Ethics (ISBEE). He is currently CEO of the Ethics Institute ofSouth Africa (EthicsSA) and extraordinary professor at theUniversity of Stellenbosch. Leon van Vuuren, aconsultant in ethics management in organisations, isProfessor in the Department of Industrial Psychology andPeople Management at the University of Johannesburg.He is registered as an industrial psychologist with the HPCSA andwas the founding editor of the African Journal of BusinessEthics (AJoBE)