Just Business

Author : John Gerard Ruggie
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393089769

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Just Business: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights (Norton Global Ethics Series) by John Gerard Ruggie Pdf

"A true master class in the art of making the impossible possible." —Paul Polman One of the most vexing human rights issues of our time has been how to protect the rights of individuals and communities worldwide in an age of globalization and multinational business. Indeed, from Indonesian sweatshops to oil-based violence in Nigeria, the challenges of regulating harmful corporate practices in some of the world’s most difficult regions long seemed insurmountable. Human rights groups and businesses were locked in a stalemate, unable to find common ground. In 2005, the United Nations appointed John Gerard Ruggie to the modest task of clarifying the main issues. Six years later, he had accomplished much more than that. Ruggie had developed his now-famous "Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights," which provided a road map for ensuring responsible global corporate practices. The principles were unanimously endorsed by the UN and embraced and implemented by other international bodies, businesses, governments, workers’ organizations, and human rights groups, keying a revolution in corporate social responsibility. Just Business tells the powerful story of how these landmark “Ruggie Rules” came to exist. Ruggie demonstrates how, to solve a seemingly unsolvable problem, he had to abandon many widespread and long-held understandings about the relationships between businesses, governments, rights, and law, and develop fresh ways of viewing the issues. He also takes us through the journey of assembling the right type of team, of witnessing the severity of the problem firsthand, and of pressing through the many obstacles such a daunting endeavor faced. Just Business is an illuminating inside look at one of the most important human rights developments of recent times. It is also an invaluable book for anyone wanting to learn how to navigate the tricky processes of global problem-solving and consensus-building and how to tackle big issues with ambition, pragmatism, perseverance, and creativity.

Author : Alexander Hill
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0830875913

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Just Business by Alexander Hill Pdf

"An ethical man is a Christian holding four aces." So said Mark Twain. But practicing Christians, at least, want to be ethical in all areas of life and work--not just when they are holding four aces. To those faced with the many questions and quandaries of doing business with integrity, Alexander Hill offers a place to begin. Alexander Hill carefully explores the foundational Christian concepts of holiness, justice and love. These keys to God's character, he argues, are also the keys to Christian business ethics. Hill then shows how some common responses to business ethics fall short of a fully Christian response. Finally, he turns to penetrating case studies on such pressing topics as employer-employee relations, discrimination and affirmative action, and environmental damage. This is an excellent introduction to business ethics for students and a bracing refresher for men and women already in the marketplace.

Author : Ber Carroll
Publisher : Pan Australia
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742624839

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Just Business by Ber Carroll Pdf

Niamh Lynch appears to have it all: a high-flying career, a handsome, successful husband and a loving family. But looks can be deceiving. From the moment she has to deliver the terrible news that there will be heavy redundancies at her workplace, her marriage crumbles and her life falls apart. Certain cracks have been there for a long time, since her family left Ireland. Others are new. Who will catch her as she falls? Her mother whom she can't forgive? Her father from his grave? Or Scott, a man who has just lost his job, but who seems to understand her like nobody else does?

Author : Alec Hill
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780830887996

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Just Business by Alec Hill Pdf

When the daily business news breaks away from stories of profit and loss, it often shines a spotlight on ethical failures. But Christians aim to be ethical in all the areas of daily life and work—not just when the spotlight is on them. For those facing the many questions and quandaries of doing business with ethical integrity, Alec Hill offers a place to begin. In this third edition of a popular textbook on business ethics, Hill carefully explores the foundational Christian concepts of holiness, justice, and love. These keys to God's character, he argues, are also the keys to Christian business ethics. Hill then shows how some common responses to business ethics fall short of a fully Christian response. Using penetrating case studies on such pressing topics as employer-employee relations, discrimination and affirmative action, and environmental damage, he clothes principles in concrete business situations. Updated throughout, and with a new chapter on international business, this new edition of Just Business is an excellent introduction to business ethics for students, and a timely refresher for men and women already in the marketplace.

Author : Sidney Bristol
Publisher : Inked Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Just Business by Sidney Bristol Pdf

Konstantin Titov built his empire with one goal in mind: to protect his daughter from his past. Ten years ago he left his father's compound in Siberia with an infant and a dream to live free from the criminal world his father thrives in. These days the biggest threat facing him is trying to not fall in love with the woman who completes his chosen family. Haley Griffin knows she's sitting on a bomb. A couple, in fact. It's just a matter of which one blows up in her face first. Will it be her unquenchable desire for her boss? Or maybe the fact that she's doing her job and the nanny's? Life as live-in security was supposed to be easy, but no one warned her about the dangers of falling in love. The delicate family balance is upset when Konstantin's past comes knocking. Haley is the only person Konstantin can trust to have his back, but being on the run together means facing the fact that he's very much in love with her. Together they'll face down an old threat and a new enemy all in the name of love and family. Aegis Group Dangerous Ladies: an Aegis Group spin-off Just Business Just Friends (TBA) Just Casual (TBA) Aegis Group Dangerous Attraction Dangerous in Training Dangerous Games Dangerous Assignment Dangerous Protector Dangerous Secrets Dangerous Betrayal Dangerous Heat Dangerous Connections Dangerous Exposure (coming soon) More soon! Aegis Group Task Force: an Aegis Group spin-off First Risk (newsletter exclusive short story) Stolen Risk Forged Risk Technical Risk Necessary Risk Necessary Risk Intercepted Risk (2020) Targeted Risk (2020) Hard Risk (TBA) Burned Risk (TBA) Final Risk (TBA) Body of Danger Heart of Danger Mind of Danger Soul of Danger (2020) Aegis Group Alpha Team: an Aegis Group spin-off Dangerous in Love Dangerous in Action Dangerous in Transit Dangerous in Motion Dangerous in Charge Aegis Group Lepta Team: an Aegis Group spin-off Dangerously Taken Dangerously Involved Dangerously Deceived Dangerously Broken Dangerously Entwined Ransom Texas SWAT; an Aegis Group spin off Fighting Redemption Stolen Redemption Forbidden Redemption Reckless Redemption (coming soon) Gone Geek; an Aegis Group spin off Beauty and the Geek Mr. Purr-fect and the Geek The Jock and the Geek The Gamer and the Geek The Adorkable Girl and the Geek The Fake Boyfriend and the Geek

Author : Aniello L. Russo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453501757

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It's Just Business by Aniello L. Russo Pdf

"It's Just Business" is a work of fiction depicting a Mafia family which runs a modern operation with college graduates and carefully selected recruits. All monies are accounted for or squirreled away in foreign banks. Each operative has a legitimate cover job and faithfully pays taxes. No show of opulence is allowed, no freelancing, members are closely monitored, and deviation is quickly corrected. A low profile is maintained, average citizens have nothing to fear, surveillance by authorities is stifled, and legitimacy is a cover and part of the operation. Business transactions are conducted with the confidence that both parties will be satisfied.

Author : Robert Thomas Collins
Publisher : RavensYard Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1928928110

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Just Business Just War by Robert Thomas Collins Pdf

Collins presents the behind-the-scenes account of tumultuous upheavals in the oil industry between 1995-2002 as industry seeks to gain access to vital petroleum resources overseas.

Author : Jan Young
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781105906015

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Nothing Personal... It's Just Business by Jan Young Pdf

Jimmy Alden, a successful businessman, is mugged in a parking garage and would have been killed were it not for the intervention of a strange little man known as Bub. Bub uses the mugging to extort Jimmy and force him into a life of terrorism with incredible consequences for Jimmy, for his family, and for the nation.

Author : Gary Allen Washington
Publisher : Carolina Encouragement Ctr
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : African American business enterprises
ISBN : 9780988615908

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Just Business: Principle-Based Strategies to Achieve Business Success by Gary Allen Washington Pdf

Author : Arunas A. Chesonis,David Dorsey
Publisher : RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Management
ISBN : 9781933360188

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It Isn't Just Business, It's Personal by Arunas A. Chesonis,David Dorsey Pdf

When you put people first, you win. When you operate by the highest principles, you'll see the results in the bottom line. When you put a caring heart into how you operate - in your organization and your community - you build the only true foundation of long-term success. This is how PAETEC Communications has enjoyed an astonishing rise during an era when telecommunications has become an ethical, legal and financial quagmire. In this book, CEO Arunas Chesonis and his people tell how, by following a handful of basic ethical principles, their company has emerged as an example of how to succeed in the twenty-first century, not just in telecom, but in any industry.

Author : Howard F. Stein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313002557

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Nothing Personal, Just Business by Howard F. Stein Pdf

Throughout the United States and indeed the world, organizations have become places of darkness, where emotional savagery and brutality are now commonplace and where psychological forms of violence--intimidation, degradation, dehumanization--are the norm. Stein succeeds in portraying this dramatically in his evocative, lucid new book, and in doing so he counters official pronouncements that simply because unemployment is low and productivity high, all is well. Through the use of symbolism and metaphor he gives us access to the interior experience of organizational life today. He employs a form of disciplined subjectivity, based on Freud's concept of counter-transference, and other methods to help us comprehend what such dominating notions as managed social change really mean. Downsizing, reengineering, managed care, endless organizational restructuring--all are presented as just business but in reality, says Stein, they are devastatingly personal in their effects. With numerous vignettes and anecdotes drawn from his formal and informal research, Dr. Stein shows us in often horrifying detail what work has come to be in so many of these dark places--but also what must happen, and can happen, to lift them into the light. Through consultations, observation, and personal experience, Stein documents the ordinary assaults on the human spirit, a form of violence in the workplace that usually escapes common classification. By that he means culturally sanctioned violence, such as everyday forms of intimidation, ridicule, goading, and doubling of workloads--all in an asserted effort to make the workplace more productive, more competitive. His examples, metaphors, symbols, images come from the Holocaust and the Vietnam War, and refer back to other horrors in other times, the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition among them. His book demonstrates precisely how brutal so many of our rational business practices have become, and how disposable all of us ultimately are, at all levels, in all organizations. Stein draws upon a variety of research techniques, including a form of counter-transference based on Freud's concept, to understand the inner meanings and feelings contained in workplace metaphors and symbols. An incisive foreword by Dr. David B. Friedman, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, comments on this, puts the book in perspective and offers additional insights into Stein's themes and how brilliantly he develops them.

Author : Geraint Anderson
Publisher : Headline
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Investment banking
ISBN : 0755381734

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Just Business by Geraint Anderson Pdf

It's murder in the city... Steve Jones, our Cityboy hero, wants out. He's looking to cash-in before the soul-stripping toil of coining it in London's financial heartland turns into a life sentence. All it will take is a handsome seven figure wedge in the bank and it's the good life for him and goodbye to the horrors of the Square Mile. Like the expert chancer he is, he sees an opportunity. Hacking into his boss's computer, he finds something that chills him to the bone. This is big time; there are bad men involved; there are millions at stake. So no change there then. But when he stumbles upon a murder and becomes the prime suspect, he has to go on the run. Together with his partner Gemma, he improvises ingenious ways of outwitting the authorities, a vicious drug cartel and even M15 in a chase that will send him half way round the world if he's going to stay alive...

Author : Elaine Sternberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198296622

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Just Business by Elaine Sternberg Pdf

Featuring an Ethical Decision Model, this text explains why being ethical is fully compatible with doing business, discusses what business has to do in order to be ethical, and looks at how properly structured systems can promote ethical business conduct that maximizes owner value.

Author : Anthony Gordon
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481756600

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Just Business by Anthony Gordon Pdf

Four friends bound together by love, trust and devotion cleverly steal 20 million dollars from a card club in southern California. Little do they know that one persons greed could be the death of them all. Its an old game called the Oke Doke. Who will survive and who will stay true to the game? What do you do when your best friend wants to kill you? What do you do when you find out that you received seven life sentences without the possibility of an appeal? What do you do when you let 20 million dollars slip through your fingertips? What do you do when you put a hit on someone and find out that you have one on you too? Its just business.

Author : Steve Farber
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781260441239

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Love is Just Damn Good Business: Do What You Love in the Service of People Who Love What You Do by Steve Farber Pdf

From the bestselling author of The Radical Leap and Greater Than Yourself comes the first book to directly address love as a hard-core business principle that generates measurable results It’s time to toss aside the touchy-feely notions of love in business and acknowledge the real power that it holds. Love is not only appropriate in the context of business, it’s the foundation of great leadership. To put it bluntly: love is just damn good business. That’s the simple but profound truth that leadership consultant Steve Farber has discovered in his extensive work with Fortune 100 companies and other successful businesses. His game-changing approach to love as a practical business strategy will help you to: • Identify your passions—and share them with others • Create a culture of love at work—and spark innovation, productivity, and joy • Serve your customers, so they love how you treat them—and have them coming back for more • Invest time in making personal connections—that are mutually rewarding • Focus on serving the needs of others—they’re going to love it • Do what you love—and make it your business, so others love it, too The proven principles you’ll find in this book will help you lay the groundwork for a thriving, competitive enterprise. When love is part of your organization’s framework and operationalized in its culture, employees and customers feel genuinely valued. Employees who are passionate about the work that they do are more loyal, innovative, creative, and inspired, and that translates to great customer experience. They don’t serve others out of obligation, but because of a genuine desire to improve people’s lives. And when customers reciprocate by loving your products, your services, and your people, that’s when something great happens. That’s when you get loyalty. That’s when you get raving fans. It’s a refreshingly human way of doing business. In addition to Farber’s field-tested strategies, you’ll find inspiring case studies from a wide range of industries and leaders, revealing self-assessment quizzes, and practical pointers on how to build a corporate culture based on love, the ultimate competitive advantage. At the end of the day, it’s just damn good business.