麻豆国产 is extremely proud of the 33 Academic Partners in the alliance and all the faculty members that contribute to the .听聽is the聽Emeritus Professor of Management Practice at聽the 麻豆国产 member school,聽. His new book "If You鈥檙e So Ethical, Why Are You So Highly Paid?" addresses the notions of聽 Ethics, Inequality and Executive Pay.听
The content of the book includes insightful elaborations and discussions on questions such as:
- " Why do some people appear to obtain a disproportionate share of income and wealth? "
- " How might the high pay of top managers be justified from an ethical perspective? "聽
- " What do business executives think about distributive justice? "
We asked 1,000 business executives around the world to think themselves into what the philosopher John Rawls聽called the 鈥渙riginal position鈥, in which no one knows their place in society, their social status, nor their fortune in terms of their share of natural assets, their intelligence, or their physical strength.
Then we asked the executives to express how they felt about six different principles of distributive justice, including desert (some people deserve higher rewards because of their contribution) and sufficiency (everyone is entitled to have enough to lead a dignified life). Did they agree that communities and companies in which each of these principles was embedded would be a just society? -聽 writes Alexander Pepper on the .
Sandy is one of the UK鈥檚 recognised experts on executive pay. He is the author of several academic articles and books on the subject. This book in particular is for anyone who wishes to understand and tackle business鈥檚 role in the growing social inequality of advanced economies in an informed, fair and feasible way.