Ética empresarial https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/en/ Blog del profesor Domènec Melé Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:12:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 Christian Humanism as a Source of Inspiration for Business? https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/en/2015/04/17/christian-humanism-as-a-source-of-inspiration-for-business/ Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:12:25 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/?p=1827 In the West, modernity presents the religion, and particularly Christianity, as a private matter that should be excluded from public life. By extension, most companies, although private institutions generally also consider religion as something confined to the conscience of each person. However, in recent years something is changed. On one hand, a right separation of […]

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]]> The Caja Madrid Black Cards: 10 Ethical Questions https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/en/2014/11/13/the-caja-madrid-black-cards-10-ethical-questions/ Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:05:27 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/?p=1804 Much has been said in the last three weeks of the “tarjetas opacas” (black cards) of the Caja Madrid, now Bankia, or to be precise BFA (Banco Financiero y de Ahorros), which Bankia is the financial subsidiary. In essence the issue concerns the use of opaque (for the Treasury and even for the internal auditors) […]

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]]> Bringing Ethics to Accounting, Finance and Banking https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/en/2014/06/18/bringing-ethics-to-accounting-finance-and-banking/ Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:40:30 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/?p=1747 Managers, businesspeople, politicians and, of course, academics and researchers should learn from the causes of the crisis and well-known scandals, and reflect on the proper role and ethical implications of finance, banking and accounting. It would therefore be apt to analyze criticism and to present recommendations and alternatives in order to integrate ethics and efficiency, as […]

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]]> Economic Freedom in the World: Is it Ethically Significant? https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/en/2014/04/11/economic-freedom-in-the-world-is-it-ethically-significant/ Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:35:13 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/?p=1640 In our culture figures and ranking are quite central, and the economic freedom is not an exception. There are several indexes which try to ranking countries through models nurture by statistic often taken from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Economist Intelligence Unit. Two of these indexes are probably the best-known worldwide. In general, their findings are not […]

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]]> History repeats itself: the prevention after the accident https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/en/2014/02/18/history-repeats-itself-the-prevention-after-the-accident/ Tue, 18 Feb 2014 21:27:04 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/?p=1732 (Published in Spanish on July 9, 2013) In the unfortunate accident of the collapse of the building that housed several textile workshops in Bangladesh last April the final death toll reached 1129 dead. International protests arose immediately. There was outrage at the working conditions of the workers in the country. Last June the Obama administration suspended […]

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]]> The Truth about Lies in the Workplace https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/en/2014/02/15/the-truth-about-lies-in-the-workplace/ Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:28:16 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/?p=1728 My attention was caught by a book with the title: The Truth about Lies in the Workplace: How to detect liars and what to do with them. The author is Carol Kinsey Goman, consultant and expert on body language. She uses her experience and a keen sense of observation to write an attractive and easy-to-read […]

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]]> The fear of delegating: a question of moral competences? https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/en/2014/02/13/the-fear-of-delegating-a-question-of-moral-competences/ Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:15:34 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/?p=1710 Naomi Shragai published months ago an interesting article in the Financial Times (July 1, 2013), from which I gather some ideas and add ethical comments about the fear of delegating. She begins by telling a short story: A young executive founded a company which prospered and now seems to be at the height of his […]

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]]> Capitalism in Question: Congress of the Academy of Management https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/en/2014/02/06/capitalism-in-question-congress-of-the-academy-of-management/ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 10:45:28 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/?p=1708 This past August I had the opportunity to attend the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, probably the most important of its kind in the world, with more than 8,000 participants distributed across multiple divisions. The overall theme for this year lends the title of this post: Capitalism in Question, certainly an expressive title, […]

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]]> The ‘Moral Factor’: Learning from a Management Classic https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/en/2014/02/05/the-moral-factor-learning-from-a-management-classic/ Tue, 04 Feb 2014 23:05:11 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/?p=1701 Today many recognize the importance of ethics in management, and particularly in leadership, although some others remain unconvinced. This post presents some insights from Chester I. Barnard (1886-1961), one of the pioneers of management thinking. He wrote The Functions of the Executive (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1938), a book which for decades was widely read […]

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]]> Economic Freedom Indexes: Are They Etically Significant? https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/en/2013/09/26/economic-freedom-indexes-are-they-etically-significant/ https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/en/2013/09/26/economic-freedom-indexes-are-they-etically-significant/#comments Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:53:49 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/eticaempresarial/?p=1651 It has just released the 2013 annual report elaborated by Economic Freedom of the World produced by the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think tank, in cooperation with the Economic Freedom Network, a group of independent research and educational institutes spread over nearly 90 nations and territories worldwide. It gives 2011 data from 151 countries. According to this index the average global economic freedom score […]

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