Ethics, Governance and Risk Management in Organizations (eBook)

Intan Marzita Saidon is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Accountancy at the Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Kedah, Malaysia. She has more than twenty years experience teaching various accounting courses in UiTM. She obtained her first degree from Northumbria University, United Kingdom, and holds a Masters and Ph.D degrees from Curtin University, Australia. She is an associate member of Malaysian Institute of Accountants.

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This book brings together research works, ideas, critical reviews and strategic proposals encompassing various ethical and corporate governance issues in workplaces and organizations around the globe. For the most part, organizations are managed by policies, guidelines and systems. Good ethics and solid corporate governance help to tie these three elements together so that an effective and successful organization is established. Alongside corporate governance, ethics play an integral role in ensuring the long term survival of businesses. Multidisciplinary in approach, this book provides a platform for scholars and researchers from various backgrounds and interdisciplinary expertise to showcase their research work, ideas, critical review and strategic proposals on the ethical aspects, governance and risk management issues in organizations. The book includes discussions of ethical issues in a variety of organizations around the globe including the non-profit and non-governmental sector and also provides readers with ideas, guidelines and strategic recommendations for handling such issues.