(Dis)honesty in management

• Other Authors: Vadi, Maaja, Vissak, Tiia
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2013.
• Series: Advanced series in management ; v. 10.
• Subjects: Business & Economics > General.; Business & Economics > Management.; Business & management.; Management & management techniques.; Business ethics.; Corporate culture.

This volume concentrates on different forms of honesty and dishonesty in management and their consequences for managers, firms and society. These issues are related to values and behavior patterns and thus, the basis of contemporary business. Honesty can be defined as the refusal to pretend that fac...

Table of Contents:

• Preface / Miguel R. Olivas-Luján, Tanya Bondarouk
• Introduction / Tiia Vissak, Maaja Vadi
• The nature of (dis)honesty, its impact factors and consequences / Maaja Vadi, Tiia Vissak
• (Dis)Honesty in organizations : ethical perspectives / Eneli Kindsiko
• Honesty and trust : integrating the values of individuals, organizations, and the society / Anneli Kaasa, Eve Parts
• The banking crisis in Iceland : did the government pretend that facts from reality were other than they were? / Hilmar Þór Hilmarsson
• Perceptions of unreported economic activities in Baltic firms : individualistic and non-individualistic motives / Jaanika Meriküll, Tairi Rõõm, Karsten Staehr
• Firm bankruptcies and violations of law : an analysis of different offences / Oliver Lukason
• From dishonesty to disaster : the reasons and consequences of rogue traders fraudulent behavior / Mark Kantsukov, Darja Medvedskaja
• The drivers and moderators for dishonest behavior in the service sector / Krista Jaakson, Jaan Masso, Maaja Vadi
• Human resource managers and employees rights : an ABC (antecedents-behavior-consequences) analysis of ethical dilemmas / Dana Mesner Andolsek, Mateja Primozic, Janez Stebe
• Honesty in leadership : a case of the Czech Republic / Zuzana Dvorakova, Edward Shippen Bright, Jan Muehlfeit
• Legitimizing dishonesty in organizations : a survey of managers in four sub-Sahara African countries / Martina L. Yanga, Isaac O. Amoako
• Evaluating honesty when implementing corporate community initiatives : a developing country perspective / Eshani Beddewela
• Building trust between American and Chinese business negotiators / Maria Lai-Ling Lam
• The consequences of dishonesty in international partnerships : three Chinese cases / Tiia Vissak, Xiaotian Zhang
• From dishonesty to honesty : is this journey path dependent? / Eneli Kindsiko, Maaja Vadi, Tiia Vissak.