[...]... Management and Organization She is a project manager and a researcher in the field of Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility and author of several articles in the field of management and psychology Kristijan Krkač is Professor of Business Ethics and CSR, Zagreb School of Economics and Management, and of Analytical Philosophy, Jesuit College in Zagreb, Croatia He is author of 3 books and more... more then 50 papers on topic of Wittgenstein and European pragmatism in fields of religion, epistemology, ontology, and ethics In CSR he is co-editor of “Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (2006), and editor of textbook on BE and CSR (in Croatian) His interests cover topics from Wittgenstein, pragmatism, normative ethics, business ethics, and CSR In last few years his interest covers... been affected by the uncertainty regarding job security and future prospects, and this has affected motivation; 2 Ethics, Psyche and Social Responsibility • Recruitment and training problems have become more significant in this new environment, particularly when societal demographic changes are considered More recently it has started to be discussed and recognised that this focus of organisations in cutting... social responsibility issue for alcohol industries It is imperative to address the question of conscious and humanistic actions from inside marketing activities, moreover, while we know that most organizations only take into account these issues when a governmental prerogative is mandatory It is also important to recognise the causes of such alcohol 10 Ethics, Psyche and Social Responsibility use and. .. in our desire to show the range of issues involved in, and range of people concerned with this field We hope that this book succeeds in opening up the discourse in this neglected area 12 Ethics, Psyche and Social Responsibility References Alvesson M (2002), Understanding Organizational Culture; Sage: London Andrews, J Craig, Richard G Netemeyer, and Srinivas Durvasula (1990) “The Role of Cognitive Responses... the many and welfare has increased 4 Ibid 1 See also GNP and GDP indicators at World Bank (2006) latest statistics for 2004 5 See some statistics and reports at the Institut national de santé publique – Québec (2003), and Crise – Center for Research and Intervention on Suicide and Euthanasia (2006) Psychological Violence at Work 17 fair and equitable distribution of income6 for all the social and collective... renamed and we talk about human resources management as a way of utilizing people as a resource in the production process alongside other resources such as finance or raw materials Thus the whole language of business dehumanizes the worker and encourages (or at best condones) the problems with which we are concerned in this chapter 16 Ethics, Psyche and Social Responsibility these pressures and their... foundations of the discipline and thereby to reinforce the preconception that it is only those things which can be measured in financial terms, and thereby expressed as accounting information, which have value Thus economic wealth is all that matters Economic rationality presupposes that organisations, and the people within those organisations, 4 Ethics, Psyche and Social Responsibility behave in a rational... welfare program as a last resource (see Human Resources and Social Development Canada, 2005) But in other developing countries this program or this consideration does not even exist 18 Ethics, Psyche and Social Responsibility of a manager, Dávila Gómez (2003) treated this to some extent upon the concept of human qualities For organizations, as the social actors that they are (Giddens, 1987), it is critical,... comprehension and analysis levels are the most privileged The reflexivity we refer to (see also Reynolds, 1998) needs synthesis to contextualize situations, as well as evaluation and abstraction in order to unveil the motives of actions and to act with 17 This is of course exacerbated by the consumerist society of the present – arguably one of the main causes of economic migration 22 Ethics, Psyche and Social Responsibility . Social Responsibility: A Global Assessment Wim Vandekerckhove ISBN 978-0-7546-4750-8 Ethics, Psyche and Social Responsibility Edited by ANA MARIA DÁVILA GÓMEZ University of Quebec, Canada and DAVID. USA England Ashgate website: http://www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Ethics, psyche and social responsiblility. - (Corporate social responsibility series) 1. Social. uncertainty regarding job security and future prospects, and this has affected motivation; • • • • • • • • Ethics, Psyche and Social Responsibility 2 Recruitment and training problems have become