This textbook examines the extent to which moral values play a role as productive forces for the economy, and explores the effect of ethical and unethical Behavior on the economy. It shows how ethics improves productivity in the economy, and provides specific ethics tools for practical application for students and managers. Stemming from an overall interdisciplinary approach, and combining recent research results from sciences such as economics, business administration, Behavioral economics, philosophy, psychology and sociology, this textbook fills a gap in the literature on ethics in business. The book begins with the foundations of business ethics by defining business ethics, delineating its objectives, and discussing the importance of business ethics for business, the economy and society. Next, it presents the ethical evaluation approaches to enable the reader to evaluate economic Behavior ethically. It then explores 'man in business', and deals with such issues as Behavior, motivation, ethical orientation, and the presence or absence of a sense of justice. Following this is a discussion of the rules of the market and of questions such as: Does the market economy promote ethical Behavior or is there a conflict of goals between ethics and market economy? Do companies have a social responsibility? The book concludes with an analysis of the importance of ethics for productivity in the enterprise and in the economy, and presents ethics tools as the instruments with which management can promote ethical Behavior of their employees. Following a textbook structure, the book first derives knowledge from scientific studies that is relevant for students, and then summarizes the results. It explains ethical assessment approaches, and then gives an ethical assessment of economic Behavior using case studies. It uses roleplaying and games to explain the Behavior of people in relation to ethics.

In this textbook we examine the extent to which moral values play a role as productive forces for companies and the economy as a whole, and explores the effect of ethical and unethical behavior at both levels. We show how ethics improves productivity, and provide specific ethics tools for practical application for both students and managers. Stemming from an overall interdisciplinary approach, this textbook fills a gap in the literature on ethics in business. Following a textbook structure, we first derive knowledge from scientific studies that are relevant for students, and then summarize the results. We explain ethical assessment approaches, and then provide an ethical assessment of economic behavior using case studies. Roleplaying and games are used to explain the behavior of people in relation to ethics. The 2nd edition has been completely revised and expanded to include new findings from the behavioral sciences (psychology, social psychology, sociology and behavioral economics). In particular, the research on emotions, motivation and group behavior have given rise to many new impulses in business ethics. In addition, new case studies and new chapters were included, like Politics and Morality, Theories of Justice, Global Ethics, and Institutions as Solutions to Specific Game Situations (game theory). This book is important for students and researchers as well as policymakers and business executives due to its focus on applications.

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of macroeconomic relationships and explains the most important macroeconomic variables in an easy-to-understand manner. The reader is introduced to important macroeconomic variables such as inflation and aggregate demand in chapters that build on one another. They learn, among other things, how economic crises arise or the role and functioning of money, capital and goods markets. The aim is to provide the reader with economic knowledge that can be applied in business practice. The economics material has been deliberately selected so that business studies content is usefully supplemented. However, detailed explanations and both application-oriented and practice-related examples and exercises make it easy for non-economists to understand the complex economic topics. Well-founded knowledge presented in an immediately comprehensible way!

Considered historically, financial crises have increased significantly in recent years. This is not the result of simple coincidence, but rather much more an indication of a massive weakness in the present economic system. The point of departure for this book is the business crises and collapses that have shaken the global economy in the past few years. Starting with examples as the Enron bankruptcy and the subprime crisis in 2007, we search for explanations for the crises. Several possible causes are examined and various questions from recent discussions of ethics on topics such as manager pay increases are answered. After discovering several weaknesses in the economic system and inappropriate behavioral stimuli we find two main causes for them: the neglect of measurable and non-calculable qualitative factors (also called soft facts) and an extreme greed in managers at the cost of their companies. A lack of ethics or moral behavior lead us to question the meaning of morality for the economy, and thus for society. This issue is examined not only from the view of individual companies, but also from national economic and general social context using the example of Russia. We found a very large influence from moral values and general qualitative factors of influence, which have not been considered up to now. The knowledge gained will be applied to develop a management approach to qualitative leadership, which includes qualitative factors previously ignored, and brings human productive forces into the picture by including active employees as people in the business process.

Ausgangspunkt f r dieses Buch sind die Unternehmenskrisen und Zusammenbr che, die die Weltwirtschaft in den letzten Jahren ersch tterten. Ausgehend vom Beispiel des Konkurses des Unternehmens Enron und der Subprimekrise wird nach Gr nden f r die Krisen gesucht. Es werden zahlreiche Krisenursachen untersucht und verschiedene Fragen der j ngsten Ethikdiskussionen, wie beispielsweise nach dem angemessenen Managergehalt, beantwortet. Neben falschen wirtschaftlichen Verhaltensanreizen werden zwei Hauptursachen ausgemacht: eine Vernachl ssigung nicht mess- und berechenbarer qualitativer Faktoren (auch Softfacts genannt) und eine extreme Bereicherungssucht der Manager auf Kosten ihrer Unternehmen. Mangelhafte Ethik oder fehlendes moralisches Verhalten f hren uns zu der Frage nach der Bedeutung der Moral f r die Wirtschaft und damit auch f r die Gesellschaft. Diese Frage wird nicht nur aus Sicht der einzelnen Unternehmen, sondern auch am Beispiel Russlands im volkswirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Gesamtzusammenhang untersucht. Hierbei wird eine gro e Bedeutung moralischer Werte und allgemein qualitativer Einflussfaktoren f r die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung festgestellt, der bisher nicht Rechnung getragen wurde. Ausgehend von den gewonnenen Erkenntnissen wird ein Managementansatz der qualitativen F hrung entwickelt, der der Bedeutung der bisher vernachl ssigten qualitativen Faktoren gerecht wird und der durch die aktive Einbeziehung der Mitarbeiter als Menschen in den Unternehmensprozess die menschlichen produktiven Kr fte zur Entfaltung bringt.