Absolute Essentials of Business Behavioural Ethics

This book provides an entertaining overview of how dishonesty and unethical behaviour has been studied in psychological experiments and the malleable nature of business ethics.

Nina Seppala is Deputy Director (Academic Affairs) at the University College London (UCL) School of Management where she teaches a course on the ethics of artificial intelligence. Nina has authored a range of academic articles and a textbook in business ethics and corporate social responsibility. She is passionate about making people aware about their values and the ethical choices and situations they will encounter in work settings.

PART 1. RISE IN BEHAVIOURAL ETHICS RESEARCH 1. Introduction: experimental approaches to the study of ethics 2. Historical experiments in the study of ethics 3. Measuring ethics in experiments PART 2. INDIVIDUAL FACTORS 4. Introduction 5. Are women really more ethical? 6. Social class and dishonesty 7. Sense for fairness increases whistleblowing 8. The moral equilibrium 9. Are people creatively dishonest? PART 3. ORGANISATIONAL FACTORS 10. Introduction 11. We comply with peer norms in good and bad 12. Physical environment changes behaviour 13. Detrimental effect of money 14. More time, better ethics? 15. Summary