Workplace Ethics

The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904) is a political economy book by Thorstein Veblen which examines the growing corporate domination of culture and the economy. At its core, The Theory of Business Enterprise is an analysis of two intertwined but clashing motivations: that of business and that of industry. Business is the making of profits. Industry is the making of goods.

A Crisis of Beliefs makes us rethink the financial crisis and the nature of economic risk. In this authoritative and comprehensive book, two of today's most insightful economists reveal how our beliefs shape financial markets, lead to expansions of credit and leverage, and expose the economy to major risks.

You subscribe to the basic idea that business can do more than make money, but you're not sure how to act on that conviction or how to share it with the rest of your organization. The Conscious Capitalism Field Guide - the authoritative follow-up to the best-selling book Conscious Capitalism, by John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, and leadership expert Raj Sisodia - gives you the tools for sharing and implementing the principles of higher purpose and conscious business throughout your organization.

Penguin Audio presents Damaged Goods, by Oliver Shah. In March 2015, British businessman and the chairman of Arcadia Group Sir Philip Green sold BHS for £1 to Retail Acquisitions, owned by Dominic Chappell, a serial bankrupt who filed BHS for administration shortly after. By April 2016, BHS had debts of £1.3bn, including a pensions deficit of £571m. Damaged Goods follows Green's journey to the big time, the sale of BHS and the subsequent investigation that concluded with Green paying £363m to the Pensions Regulator.

It’s clear that in today’s era of fiscal constraints and political gridlock, we can no longer turn to government alone to tackle towering social problems. What’s required is a new, more collaborative and productive economic system. The Solution Revolution brings hope - revealing just such a burgeoning new economy where players from across the spectrum of business, government, philanthropy, and social enterprise converge to solve big problems and create public value.

The author of the widely praised Age of Greed now gives us a bold indictment of some of our most accepted economic theories - why they’re wrong, the harm they’ve done, and the theories that would vastly improve them.

One of the most vexing human rights issues of our time has been how to protect the rights of individuals and communities worldwide in an age of globalization and multinational business. Indeed, from Indonesian sweatshops to oil-based violence in Nigeria, the challenges of regulating harmful corporate practices in some of the world’s most difficult regions long seemed insurmountable. Human rights groups and businesses were locked in a stalemate, unable to find common ground. In 2005, the United Nations appointed John Gerard Ruggie to the modest task of clarifying the main issues.

At last, here's THE audiobook that 21st century entrepreneurs have been waiting for - the inner-secrets of how highly successful Internet capitalists make millions by knowing who to reach and how to reach them online. From viral loops to social networking to how to cut through all the cyber-clutter, Six Pixels of Separation is mandatory listening for anybody who wants to expand their business via the Internet.

In Honest to Greatness, serial Inc. 5000 entrepreneur Peter Kozodoy shows how today’s greatest business leaders use honesty - not as a touchy-feely core value, but as a business strategy that produces game-changing, industry-dominating success.

Where common DEI initiatives have failed, this book instead offers a results-based, systems-focused, all-inclusive, and universally beneficial framework to help bring about real social change in the workplace. This can be achieved through the FAIR framework: Fairness—Promote equitable treatment by addressing systemic barriers and ensuring transparent, just practices for all.

Im März 2020 änderte sich alles. Homeoffice war plötzlich die neue Norm. Alle mussten sich digitalisieren und transformieren – ob sie wollten oder nicht. Die Arbeit drängte weiter ins restliche Leben, zur Erwerbsarbeit kam noch mehr Carearbeit. Die Schere zwischen systemrelevanten Berufen und Bürojobs ging weiter auf. Covid hat uns gezeigt, was in der Arbeitswelt nicht mehr funktioniert. Und da ist nicht nur die Pandemie. Überschwemmungen, Waldbrände, Inflation, Krieg – unsere Welt steht in Flammen, im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes.

Anna Engers ist überzeugt: Diversity ist der Booster für jedes Unternehmen! Dennoch tun sich die Organisationen in Deutschland immer noch schwer, echte Vielfalt zu integrieren und zu leben. Warum das so ist und was sich hinter dem Begriff Diversity eigentlich verbirgt, dem hat sich die Autorin in diesem Hörbuch gewidmet.

Auf dem Markt agieren nicht nur rationale und wirtschaftliche Kräfte, sondern auch emotionale und menschliche. Die Unternehmen fokussieren sich immer mehr auf den Faktor Mensch mit seinen individuellen Entscheidungen und Verhaltensweisen. Um diese psychologischen Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen, gibt es die Wirtschaftspsychologie. Sie wollen mehr über dieses Gebiet erfahren und den Tricks der Wirtschaft entkommen? Dann ist dieses Buch genau das Richtige für Sie! Ich möchte Sie auf eine kleine Reise rundum den Bereich der Wirtschaftspsychologie mitnehmen und Ihnen die Eigenheiten präsentieren.

A person finds themselves lost, wondering through life without any sense of direction. This person wants to be financially free and happy, but they do not know how to achieve that goal. Is this person you? This book is written to help a fellow entrepreneur navigate through life. In the book, I will be teaching techniques to help with finding hobbies, developing a money mindset, principles of success, viewpoints on failure, what it means to be financially free, plus much more.

In this companion audiobook to the Figgerridout show: how attention to detail can help you learn the skills you need to advance your career, start a new one, or build your business; the biggest ethical mistakes people make that get in the way of their hopes and dreams; understanding rich people so you can gain their trust; how successful people bring a skill or business to excellence, and then take those skills to build more and more skills; the fundamentals of all the skills that people have paid me to use.

"Wealth is a mindset!" Shynna Key says these days - as she pens this empowering resource journal about “keeping it real” with your current financial position, identifying challenges, and taking responsibility for changing the way you view wealth. In a world of economic ups & downs we must begin by examining financial culture and what we have been taught as it relates to money and wealth.

Born out of Khuram Malik's aspirations to sow the seeds of a flourishing generation of successful Muslim entrepreneurs, Billion Dollar Muslim is a book which opens our eyes to the great possibilities that can be achieved when the entrepreneurial mindset is embraced. Khuram speaks from personal experience, and he does an amazing job of sharing his conviction that the advantages of entrepreneurship can wield great benefit not only to the individual but also to the Muslim Ummah and society as a whole.

Think of someone you admire, someone who you wish to emulate. What makes them successful? What enabled that person to overcome their fear and go after their dream? Quite simply: the willingness to assume a risk.

Travel back in time as George S. Clason takes you back to Babylon in his enlightening, insightful book on financial investment and financial success. The original version now restored and revised, this series of delightful short stories teaches economic tips and tools for financial success that have withstood the test of time and are applicable still today. Enjoy reading, and start saving today!

A valorização da diversidade no ambiente de trabalho tem ganhado cada vez mais espaço nas discussões corporativas, impulsionada não só pelas demandas sociais, mas também pela comprovação de seus benefícios para o desempenho organizacional. A obra apresenta reflexões e estratégias que mostram como investir em inclusão beneficia tanto as pessoas quanto os resultados dos negócios, fortalecendo equipes, ampliando o alcance de mercado e criando ambientes mais éticos, colaborativos e sustentáveis.