Social Responsibilities of the Businessman

Index of Subjects

Index of Subjects accounting, 194–8 advertising, 41, 214–6, 219 advisory councils, 185–6 altruism. See self-interest; social responsibility attitudes and values, 75, 135–9 audit, social, 155–6 bargaining, collective, 41. See also labor boards of directors, 152–3 business: defined, 6; improvement in practices , 69–71, 111–2; influence on cultural life, 227; as a profession, 50, 79, 93–9 business education, 78–80, 94–5 businessman: defined, 6–7; conception of social responsibilities, 44–68; economic views, 46–8; education for free enterprise , 47; and government, 77–8, 105, 158–9, 223–5; and power, 34–5, 118–21 capitalism, 7, 25–8; popular education for, 54. See also laissez faire Catholic economic ideas, 164–5 charitable contributions of business, 125–7 churches and education for social responsibility , 188–9 civil liberties and business, 228 codes of business ethics, 98, 161 codetermination, Germany, 179–80 communications, mass, 214–6 community, 11; and business, 63 competition, 18, 47–8, 66; ethics of, 226; as factor preventing assumption of social responsibility, 107–12 conservation of natural resources, 23, 39, 66–7, 227 consumer choice, 48 cooperative movement, 35, 43 corporation, 80–9; economic philosophy, 82; goals, 88; maturity of, 80–3, 104–5; as person, 87–8; planning in, 82; selection of managers, 86–7; separation of ownership and control, 84–5; trusteeship of management, 88–9 costs of production, 195–8 costs of social responsibility, 112–5, 149 costs, social, 213 Council of Economic Advisers, 186 cycle, business. See stability decisions of businessmen, 3–4 democracy in business, 121, 138–40, 160–1 Depression, Great, 75. See also stability dignity of man, 40 discrimination, personal, 40 distribution of income. See income distribution doctrine of social responsibility, 2–7, 107–24 Dodge vs. Ford Motor Co., 128–30 earnings of management, 91 economics, classical, 16. See also laissez faire economists in business, 154 241 economy, mixed. See mixed economy education: of businessmen, 56, 157–8; of American public, 53–9; for social responsibility, 188–9. See also business education Employment Act of 1946, 187–8 England: joint industrial councils, 178; working parties, 179 ethical conduct and self-interest, 14 executive class, 211–3 family life, 40 financial structure of business, 217 Fischer plan, 181–3 freedom, 10, 19, 27; and social responsibility , 5–6 Germany, codetermination in, 179–80 goals of economic life, 8–13 gospel of wealth, 118 government and business, 22–4, 63–4, 77–8, 105, 158–9, 223–5 Goyder plan, 180–1 health and safety of workers, 23, 37–8, 40, 208–11 honesty in business, 207 human dignity, 61–3 human relations in industry, 40, 60–3, 226 incentives, economic, 46–7, 64. See also profit income distribution, 23, 37, 47, 91, 193–206 Industry Council plan, 164–76; C.I.O. proposal, 169–70; evaluation, 170–6; and Fascism, 167 integrity, personal, 12, 41 inventory policies, 219–20 justice, 9, 30, 61 labor, benefits, 208–11; organization, 35, 41, 76; relations, 23, 60–3, 226. See also bargaining, collective laissez faire, 193–4; in theory, 13–20; social responsibilities and, 20; decline of, 21; efforts to preserve, 24–7; Protestant view of, 32; neo-laissez faire, 224–5 law and social responsibility, 125–34 law observance, 207 management: education of, 157–8; as mediators among interest groups, 49–50; as profession, 50, 93–9; proposed changes, 153–5; as trusteeship, 49 managers of corporations: earnings of, 91; motives, 87–93; participation in government , 158–9; prestige, 92; selection of, 86–7 mass communications, 214–6 maturity of large corporations, 80–3, 104–5 mixed economy, 21, 25 monopoly, 23, 81, 83 morality: and laissez faire, 17–9; as basis for law, 13 motives, economic, 35. See also profit motive, service motive motives of managers, 87–93, 115–7 National Labor Management Conference, 184–5 New Deal, 73–4 N.R.A., 168 opportunity, personal, 40, 61–3 order as social goal, 9 organized groups, 25, 38, 76, 106, 224–5 index of subjects 242 participation in business decisions, 41–3, 61–3, 99–102, 164–77, 224–5; Detroit Conference, 183–4; England, 178; Sweden , 179 paternalism, 42, 63, 120–1 personal development, 10 planning in large corporation, 82 power of businessmen, 34–5, 118–21; decline of, 120 price policies of business, 220; low prices as goal, 64–5, 198–201...