Leading towards Change of Ethics and Caring: Resisting Temptation and Reaping the Benefits

Leading towards Change of Ethics and Caring: Resisting Temptation and Reaping the Benefits

1. Businesses stand at a crossroads, and our current systems are not sustainable given the present economic and environmental crises.

2. What is Cost-Effective?

   • Cost reduction is becoming the rule, and cutting unnecessary business expenses has become a mantra.
     • The good news is that there is a growing body of research that supports resisting the temptation to cut what in the longer term matters the most to both business and society.

3. The energy produced in caring organisational contexts drives productivity, with all this implies for business success.

   • These and many other studies demonstrate something that can help responsible business leaders obtain support for sound decisions: that the energy produced in caring organisational contexts drives productivity, with all this implies for business success.9

4. Making the Invisible Visible

   • To meet the challenge of restructuring economic systems, business leaders must look beyond the policies of their own companies to the larger economic and cultural context.

5. Economics, Cultures, and Values

   • Economics is above all about values. So, to understand where necessary change economics is needed, we must examine cultural beliefs about what is valuable.
   • In order to better understand what is or is not considered culturally valuable, the conventional cultural categories -
   • Looking at economics from this new systemic perspective makes it possible to see that the kinds of values, and thus economic systems, a society supports is very different depending on the degree of its orientation to either end of the partnershipdomination continuum.