Introduction: On raising value questions in business

✍ Scribed by Michael H. Mitias

• Book ID: 104748273
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 356 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-4544
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00382810

✦ Synopsis

This essay is an attempt to stress the need to understand and evaluate the human issues or values, which are implicit in business, on the one hand, and which arise in the course of business activity, on the other: e.g., freedom, responsibility, and human well-being. Business is a social institution; as such, it affects and is affected by our values as a cultured society.

The economic and political systems of the world community, including our own, have been undergoing rapid, and in some cases radical, change. In spite of the technological advances which we have achieved in industry, agriculture, defense strategy, and public communication we still face difficult social problems which seem to resist solution: poverty, inflation, unemployment, environmental pollution, difficulties in health care, crime, consumerism, and many more. We can raise theoretical questions about the means, plan, or even ideology which we should adopt in order to cope with or perhaps alleviate these problems. Such an inquiry