Morals, ethics, law. What is their relationship? And how do they decline in terms of work? If it is true that there is aBusiness ethics or in the business, why don't Business Schools talk about it? After years of conversations with Managers and Professionals, Augusto Carena e Julius Sapelli have decided to put their free conversations about Business Ethics on paper in “OUT OF TIME DIALOGUES ON ETHICS – What Business Schools Don't Tell” which represents the first volume of a mini-series published by Guerini Next.
It is a collection of open and unconventional dialogues, useful for recovering considerations and reflections shared for years in training classrooms with managers and professionals. Ethics, complexity, geo-strategy, macroeconomics: anyone who cares about conscious participation in their daily work has asked themselves profound questions about these existential topics. However, it has not always been possible to find a convincing or authoritative answer capable of recovering the value or meaning of these macro-arguments. Business schools continue to treat these issues in an impersonal and aseptic way, leaving many fundamental assumptions between the lines, as if it were a matter of knowledge on which we all tacitly agree.
The authors intend to bring these assumptions to light and question them thanks to the possibilities that the dialogic tool offers. The theme addressed in this first volume is the one that most of all consider mistreated and trivialized by the mainstream and by the Business Schools: Business Ethics and in Business.
Sapelli and Carena's dialogues are outdated because they go against the tide and are based on the knowledge and thoughts of a few decades ago, but they are also open because they are intended for a vast audience curious to see what lies beyond mainstream thought, according to which business ethics is nothing more than "a response to the numerous scandals of the last twenty years, and to the regulations that have been imposed to limit the phenomenon".
Little in line with the single dominant thought, in this first volume the authors provide the reader with a box of tools for thinking, useful for clarifying the issue of ethics, morals and the law. A dispassionate invitation to the reader to be more ethical, even in the workplace.
WHO ARE THE AUTHORS – Augusto Carena, nuclear engineer, deals with Business Simulations, Systems Thinking, Complex Decision Making, and Cognitive Bias in Organizations. He has been carrying out managerial training activities on these topics for thirty years in Italy and abroad. With Giulio Sapelli he works on corporate cultures in organizational ethnography projects. He published with Antonio Mastrogiorgio "The trap of the commander" (2012), on bias in organizations.
Giulio Sapelli is a full professor of Economic History at the University of Milan and a columnist for Il Messaggero. He has taught and carried out research activities in many Italian universities and companies. For Guerini e Associati he recently published L'inverno di Monti (2012), Dove va il mondo? (2014) and If Merkel is Charles V (with L. Festa, 2014).
Guerini Next is a young entrepreneurial reality in the publishing world, born in December 2013. Guerini e Associati, historic leader in the field of managerial essays, bequeathed to the publishing house a catalog of over 450 titles, full of management classics. Guerini Next's goal is to strengthen the traditional areas of interest, enriching the proposal with new formats and new tools, increasingly suitable for meeting the needs of professionals.
