Journal of Business Ethics

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Alex C. Michalos ◽  
Deborah C. Poff
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Journal Of Business Ethics

Starbucks and HMSHost: addressing discrimination across organizational boundaries

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly R. Hall ◽  
Juanne Greene ◽  
Ram Subramanian ◽  
Emily Tichenor
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Labor Union ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Journal Of Business Ethics

Theoretical basis 1. Maria Jarlstrom, Essi Saru, and Sinikka Vanhala, “Sustainable Human Resource Management With Salience of Stakeholders: A Top Management Perspective,” Journal of Business Ethics, 152, (2008): 703–724. 2. Benjamin A. Neville, Simon J. Bell, and Gregory J., “Stakeholder Salience Revisited: Refining, Redefining, and Refueling an Underdeveloped Conceptual Tool,” Journal of Business Ethics, 102, (2011): 357–378. 3. Mick Marchington, Fang Lee Cooke, and Gail Hebson. “Human Resource Management Across Organizational Boundaries,” Sage Handbook of Human Resource Management, (2009): 460–477. Research methodology This secondary source case is based mainly on three documents: the 20-page report by a labor union, Unite Here, titled “One Job Should Be Enough: Inequality at Starbucks”; and two reports by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. and Covington & Burlington, LLP. Case overview/synopsis In February 2020, Unite Here, a labor union, released a damming report about employment practices at the airport Starbucks stores operated by licensee, HMSHost. Among other charges, the report identified several instances of racial and gender discrimination that HMSHost dismissed as a ploy by a union intent on organizing its employees. The adverse publicity, however, put Starbucks Corporation in the spotlight because of the company’s publicly stated commitment to workplace equality. The recently hired Nzinga Shaw, the company’s first-ever Global Chief Inclusion and Diversity Officer, had to address the issue at HMSHost lest it adversely affect Starbucks’ reputation as a progressive employer. Complexity academic level The case is best suited for a graduate or undergraduate course in human resource management or labor relations. As diversity is typically covered in the first third of such courses, the ideal placement of this case would be in the early part of the course. As Starbucks is a well-known name, and it is very likely that students have had their own experience with Starbucks, as either a customer or an employee, the case is likely to draw their interest. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes.

THE INFLUENCE OF THE GREEN INNOVATION IN THE SEARCH OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF ENTERPRISES OF THE ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC BRAZILIAN SECTORS

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 1650004 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL LUIS ARENHARDT ◽  
LUCIANA FLORES BATTISTELLA ◽  
MARCIA ZAMPIERI GROHMANN
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Electronics Industry ◽  
Moderate Level ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
Journal Of Business Ethics ◽  
The Relationship

This study aimed to verify how the adoption of green innovations influences in the obtention of competitive advantage of companies in the electrical and electronic Brazilian sectors. Quantitative in nature, the study adopted the conceptual model proposed by [Chen et al. (2006). The influence of green innovation performance on corporate advantage in Taiwan. Journal of Business Ethics, 67(4), 331–339]. Using as target population companies linked to the Brazilian Association of Electrical and Electronics Industry (ABINEE), the sample consisted of 113 organisations representing 20.62% of this population. The results showed that the level of adoption of innovative green practices among the participating companies is high and that the relationship between products innovation and green processes and the achievement of competitive advantage is significant, but at a moderate level.

scholarly journals Enabling the Voices of Marginalized Groups of People in Theoretical Business Ethics Research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Alm ◽  
David S. A. Guttormsen
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Ethics Research ◽  
Relevant Group ◽  
Journal Of Business Ethics

AbstractThe paper addresses an understudied but highly relevant group of people within corporate organizations and society in general—the marginalized—as well as their narration, and criticism, of personal lived experiences of marginalization in business. They are conventionally perceived to lack traditional forms of power such as public influence, formal authority, education, money, and political positions; however, they still possess the resources to impact their situations, their circumstances, and the structures that determine their situations. Business ethics researchers seldom consider marginalized people’s voices and experiences as resources to understand their lives, as demonstrated through a review of 7500 articles published in the Journal of Business Ethics and Business Ethics Quarterly (2000–2019). Only 78 studies included aspects of marginalized groups. 69 of those studies discussed the topic of marginalized groups of people, but without integrating their explicit voices into the text. Only 9 of the 78 articles featured marginalized people’s explicit voices about their marginalization experiences incorporated into the text as a source for exploration. None of the identified studies discussed the potential for theorizing based on such voices. This paper contributes to business ethics theory by developing four theoretical possibilities vis-à-vis the critical voices of marginalized people’s experiences in business: (a) marginalized theory on critical agency and freedom of speech; (b) the gatekeeping role of academia; (c) primary sources; and (d) a participative perspective. Discussing the theoretical potential of quoting the above voices can enrich business ethics research in terms of the theoretical understanding of marginalized groups in business.

scholarly journals Understanding Student Perceptions of the Value of Ethics Training

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-229
Author(s):  
Ryan M Yonk
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Ethics Training ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
School Students ◽  
Student Sample ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Economics Courses ◽  
Journal Of Business Ethics ◽  
Training Opportunities

In this paper, we attempt to replicate and expand a set of studies conducted by Tormo-Carbó, Seguí-Mas, and Oltra and published in Journal of Business Ethics and Procedia (with Klimkiewicz) in 2016 by conducting an experiment focused on directly addressing similar but refined research questions and contradictory results from their set of studies using improved methodology and question construction. Tormo Carbó and co-authors engaged business school students in a survey of their orientation towards ethics learning and discussion and generally found that those who had taken a business ethics class were more likely to express interest in and an appreciation for ethics training, this result was not robust in across locations more time when further studies were conducted using similar methodology in new settings and with different students. Using a student sample of 653 respondents enrolled in two introductory business and economics courses, we explore the influence that short ethics learning exercises have on students' interest in and appreciation for ethics training. We find that students' interest in ethics training does not increase after exposure to short training opportunities. We further find these students do not indicate an increased willingness to engage in that training or express an increase in the belief that ethics training should be required in degree programs.

The Perils of Multinationals’ Largess

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Donaldson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
International Business ◽  
General Motors ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Corporations ◽  
Journal Of Business Ethics ◽  
Critical Challenge

In an article in the Journal of Business Ethics, Professor Kevin Jackson raised a critical challenge to my claim in The Ethics of International Business that corporations should be excused from certain rights-honoring responsibilities. Surely he is right to sound a note of caution. Not lightly, and not without deep reflection, should we let rich and powerful global corporations off the moral hook. Not lightly should we excuse the Sonys and General Motors of the world from the burdens of remedying global rights abuses. And this is the nub of the issue between Professor Jackson and me; for even though I have written that corporations should bear heavy and often unacknowledged duties in honoring human rights, I have also stipulated that these duties (unless “exceptional” circumstances obtain) should fall only in two classes, namely:

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