Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Leading towards Change of
Ethics and Caring: Resisting
Temptation and Reaping the
Benefits
- Businesses stand at a
crossroads, and our
current systems are not
sustainable given the
present economic and
environmental crises.
- What is Cost-Effective?
- Cost reduction is becoming the
rule, and cutting unnecessary
business expenses has become a
mantra.
- The good news is that there is a growing body
of research that supports resisting the
temptation to cut what in the longer term
matters the most to both business and
society.
- The energy produced in caring
organisational contexts drives productivity,
with all this implies for business success.
- These and many other studies demonstrate something that can
help responsible business leaders obtain support for sound
decisions: that the energy produced in caring organisational
contexts drives productivity, with all this implies for business
success.9
- Making the
Invisible Visible
- To meet the challenge of
restructuring economic systems,
business leaders must look beyond
the policies of their own companies to
the larger economic and cultural
context.
- Economics, Cultures,
and Values
- Economics is above all about values. So, to
understand where necessary change
economics is needed, we must examine
cultural beliefs about what is valuable.
- In order to better understand what is or is
not considered culturally valuable, the
conventional cultural categories -
- Looking at economics from this new systemic
perspective makes it possible to see that the
kinds of values, and thus economic systems, a
society supports is very different depending on
the degree of its orientation to either end of the
partnershipdomination continuum.