Corporate governance is defined in the Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics as concerned with those decisions made by the senior executives of a firm and the
impacts of their decisions on various stakeholder groups.
(EBE 147) This module turns corporate governance inside-out and looks at it from the perspective of the governed, that is, from the
directors, managers, and employees subject to the structures and strategies of corporate governance. Corporate environments function as moral ecologies,
that is, the somewhat stable, but constantly negotiated set of values, practices, and influences within societies, organizations, professions, and work groups.
(Huff et. al., 2008) The thrust of
this module is to help you begin to strategize on how to develop sustainable moral careers within different moral ecologies. You will study different kinds of moral ecologies using a taxonomy
developed from the research of Michael Davis in Thinking Like an Engineer and Robert Jackall in Moral Mazes. Huff (2008) provides
some generic strategies for individuals to pursue within in these organizational environments. But the exercises included in this module will encourage you to expand upon this list. Working
through this module will help you to view corporate governance from within from the micro perspective of the individual. Another module will allow you to see corporate governance from the
outside from the macro point of view.
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