ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on ethics, applied to global leaders and their subordinates doing business and building successful cross-cultural trust-based business relationships around the world. It considers a number of worldwide Ideational ethical systems in terms of how they interface with the relationship-building practices of the Sensate ethics of Western business and its globalization agenda. Evolutionary psychology (EP) has scientifically confirmed the ethical dichotomy between altruism and self-interest almost inevitably addressed by both religious and philosophical ethics. The Judeo-Christian ethical tradition has presented much thought over millennia about how broken relationships could be mended and reconciled. A reconciliation process was proposed for repairing the damaged and broken relationships. In Jewish, Christian, and secular philosophy, the reconciliation of damaged or broken relationships is achieved through a process of repentance and forgiveness. Reconciliation will succeed if the harm-doer's behavior changes and the offense is not repeated.
