Ethics at Work or The Expediency of Culture

Ethics at Work: The Right Action (NetEffect Series)

Author: Barbara G Cox

This easy-to-understand book presents insightful discussion of practical business issues in today's workplace. It contains numerous examples, and real-world case studies and questions that illustrate dilemmas learners can practice resolving.For any and all professionals focused on ethics in business.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Theory and practice	1
2	Values and principles	15
3	Sources of influence	27
4	Ethical judgments	39
5	Justification, rationalization, and the analysis of moral choices	51
6	Guidelines for decision making	61
7	Individual traits and character	75
8	Corporate character and the role of leadership	85
	Index	99

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The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era

Author: George Yudic

The Expediency of Culture is a pioneering theorization of the changing role of culture in an increasingly global world. George Yъdice explores critically how groups ranging from indigenous activists to nation-states to nongovernmental organizations have all come to see culture as a valuable resource to be invested in, contested, and used for varied sociopolitical and economic ends. Through a dazzling series of illustrative studies, Yъdice challenges the Gramscian notion of cultural struggle for hegemony and develops instead an understanding of culture where cultural agency at every level is negotiated within globalized contexts dominated by the active management and administration of culture. He describes a world where "high" culture (such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain) is a mode of urban development, rituals and everyday aesthetic practices are mobilized to promote tourism and the heritage industries, and mass culture industries comprise significant portions of a number of countries' gross national products.

Yъdice contends that a new international division of cultural labor has emerged, combining local difference with transnational administration and investment. This does not mean, he points out, that today's increasingly transnational culture-exemplified by the entertainment industries and the so-called global civil society of nongovernmental organizations-is necessarily homogenized. He demonstrates that national and regional differences are still functional, shaping the meaning of phenomena from pop songs to antiracist activism. Yъdice considers a range of sites where identity politics and cultural agency are negotiated in the face of powerful transnational forces. He analyzes appropriations of American funk music as well as a citizen action initiative in Rio de Janeiro to show how global notions such as cultural difference are deployed within specific social fields. He provides a political and cultural economy of a vast and increasingly influential art event- inSite, a triennial festival extending from San Diego to Tijuana. He also reflects on Miami as one of a number of transnational "cultural corridors" and on the uses of culture in an unstable world where censorship and terrorist acts interrupt the usual channels of capitalist and artistic flows.