ABSTRACT
Aldous Huxley raised serious social issues about business and asked searching questions about organisations. For the most part, crises of various types, inflicting social or environmental disasters on specific businesses, have caused many in the corporate world to have to rethink issues of accountability and transparency. Business in general is the supreme God, and the individual Firm is the subsidiary deity to whom devotions are directly paid. For the ambitious, the boomingly prosperous, and those too much involved in strenuous living to be able to do any strenuous thinking, the worship of business may perhaps supply the lack of genuine religion. Many in business may want to take issue with Huxley’s harsh criticisms, but there are only a few worldwide that could seriously engage with him by demonstrating that they are really serious about making changes.
