Challenges in Teaching Business Ethics: Using Role Set Analysis of Early Career Dilemmas

Emphasis in business ethics texts and courses has generally focused on corporate and other relatively high-level ethical issues. However, business school graduates in early career stages report ethical dilemmas involving individual-level decisions, often including influence attempts from one or more members of their work role sets. This paper proposes the use of role set analysis as a pedagogical technique for helping individuals to anticipate and deal with early-career ethical issues.     

Pre-Kommunikation im Internet — Der BMW X1 trifft Kunden im Social Web

Kunden suchen heute verst?rkt im Social Web nach der Unterstützung anderer Kunden bei der Kaufentscheidung und entscheiden selbst, welche Inhalte sie über welche Kan?le abrufen. Unternehmen sollten daher das Social Web für die Pre-Kommunikation nutzen. Das Praxisbeispiel der BMW Group zeigt, wie man damit die Bekanntheit steigern und neue Zielgruppen erreichen kann.     

Entlassungsmanagement in der Praxis

Umsetzung des aktualisierten Expertenstandards - Die sozial- und gesundheitspolitischen Rahmenbedingungen haben sich ver?ndert. Mehr denn je ist die Sicherstellung der Versorgungskontinuit?t eine wichtige pflegerische Aufgabe. Wie das prozessorientiert und berufsgruppenübergreifend gelingt, zeigt ein Projekt aus der Berliner Charité.     

The importance of social learning and culture for sustainable water management

Currently water resources management is undergoing a major paradigm shift. Water resources management has a strong engineering tradition based on controlling environmental problems with technical solutions. The management of risks relied on the ability to predict extremes and limit their impact with technical means such as dikes, dams and reservoirs. In this paradigm, belief systems, human attitudes and collective behaviours are perceived as external boundary conditions and not as integral part of management. However, the situation has started to change dramatically. Over the past years, integrated water resources management has become the reigning paradigm. The importance of governance and cultural adaptation has become a major issue of concern. At the same time, there is a paucity of adequate scientific concepts that would allow addressing these issues. This paper introduces a concept for social learning developed in the European project HarmoniCOP and discusses its implications for the cultural and institutional context of water resources management. It aims to contribute to the new paradigm of integrated resource management by discussing the importance of processes of culture and social learning for environmental resources management, in general, and water resources management, in particular.     

The experience of EMAS in three European countries: a cultural and competitive analysis

EMAS, the European Eco‐Management and Audit Scheme, has been open for participation for six years now. Looking at registrations per country, a concentration of registrations in northern European countries is evident. The first part of this article investigates potential reasons by applying two popular models. Geert Hofstede's four cultural dimensions are used to explain favourable or unfavourable conditions for EMAS in a country. Michael E. Porter's national diamond is used to investigate determinants for national competitiveness and their influence on environmental management. These two frameworks are applied to Germany as a benchmark and France and Spain as representatives of southern European countries. In the second part of the article conclusions are drawn from this investigation on the influence of national culture, conditions and incentives for EMAS in these countries. Lastly actions for increased participation in EMAS of southern European countries are presented. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. and ERP Environment