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Business Ethics : Decision-Making for Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility

by: Hartman, Laura Pincus; DesJardins, Joe

Business Ethics : Decision-Making for Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility

by: Hartman, Laura Pincus; DesJardins, Joe

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9780073136868
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0073136867
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 03/02/2007
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Hartman/DesJardinsBusiness Ethicsis designed to prepare the student to apply an ethical decision-making model, not only in this ethics course but throughout her or his business discipline. This model teaches students ethical skills, vocabulary, and tools to apply in everyday business decisions and throughout their business courses. The authors speak in a sophisticated yet accessible manner while teaching the fundamentals of business ethics. Hartman's professional background in law and her teaching experience in business curriculum, combined with DesJardins' background in philosophy results in a broad language, ideal for this approach and market. The authors' goal is to engage the student by focusing on cases and business scenarios that students already find interesting. Students are then asked to look at the issues from an ethical perspective. Additionally, its focus on AACSB requirements makes it a comprehensive business ethics text for business school courses.

About the Authors	p. vi
Preface	p. vii
Ethics and Business	p. 1
Introduction: Making the Case for Business Ethics	p. 3
Business Ethics as Ethical Decision Making	p. 6
Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility	p. 8
Ethics and the Law	p. 13
Ethics as Practical Reason	p. 16
Readings	p. 19
Value Shift	p. 19
An Ethical Hero or a Failed Businessman? The Malden Mills Case Revisited	p. 24
Do You Need an Ethics Officer?	p. 31
Ethical Decision Making: Personal and Professional Contexts	p. 35
Introduction	p. 37
A Decision-Making Process for Ethics	p. 37
When Ethical Decision Making Goes Wrong: Why Do "Good" People Engage in "Bad" Acts?	p. 42
Ethical Decision Making in Managerial Roles	p. 46
Readings	p. 49
Abandoning the "Just School" Myth	p. 49
The Parable of the Sadhu	p. 52
When Good People Do Bad Things at Work	p. 58
Philosophical Ethics and Business	p. 63
Introduction: Ethical Theories and Traditions	p. 65
Utilitarianism: Making Decisions Based on Ethical Consequences	p. 67
Problems of Utilitarian Ethics	p. 72
Deontology: Making Decisions Based on Ethical Principles	p. 74
Sources of Rules	p. 75
Moral Rights and Duties	p. 77
Distinguishing between Moral Rights and Legal Rights	p. 80
Social Justice: Rawlsian Justice as Fairness	p. 80
Virtue Ethics: Making Decisions Based on Integrity and Character	p. 83
A Decision-Making Model for Business Ethics Revisited	p. 86
Readings	p. 90
The Justification of Human Rights	p. 90
Do CEOs Get Paid Too Much?	p. 95
Caux Principles for Business	p. 105
The Corporate Culture-Impact and Implications	p. 111
What Is Corporate Culture?	p. 113
Culture and Ethics	p. 116
Compliance and Value-Based Cultures	p. 118
Ethical Leadership and Corporate Culture	p. 120
Effective Leadership and Ethical Leadership	p. 121
Building a Values-Based Corporate Culture	p. 123
Mission Statements, Codes of Conduct, and Statements of Values	p. 123
Ethics Hotlines, Ombudsmen, and Integrating Ethical Culture	p. 127
Assessing and Monitoring the Corporate Culture: Audits	p. 130
Mandating and Enforcing Culture: The Federal Sentencing Guidelines	p. 132
Readings	p. 138
Good Business Sometimes Means the Customer Doesn't Come First	p. 138
Assessment and Plan for Organizational Culture Change at NASA	p. 143
Inside Arthur Andersen	p. 145
Corporate Social Responsibility	p. 147
Introduction	p. 149
Is There a Social Responsibility of Business? If So, What Is Its Orgin	p. 149
Is There a Social Responsibility of Business? If So, Responsibility to Whom?	p. 152
Is There a Social Responsibility of Business? If So, What Is the Extent of the Responsibility?	p. 153
Ethics and Social Responsibility	p. 154
Exploring Enlightened Self-Interest: Motivation for CSR	p. 157
Does the "Enlightened Self-Interest" Model Work? Does "Good Ethics" Mean "Good Business"?	p. 161
Readings	p. 169
Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business: A Reason Debate Featuring Milton Friedman, Whole Foods' John Mackey, and Cypress Semiconductor's T. J. Rodgers	p. 169
Why Should Corporate Responsibility Be Altruistic?	p. 178
Does It Pay to Be Good?	p. 180
Ethical Decision Making: Employer Responsibilities and Employee Rights	p. 187
Introduction	p. 189
Ethical Issues in the Workplace: The Current Environment	p. 190
Defining the Parameters of the Employment Relationship	p. 192
Due Process and Just Cause	p. 192
Downsizing	p. 195
Health and Safety	p. 197
Global Applications: The Global Workforce and Global Challenges	p. 205
The Case of Child Labor	p. 207
Rights and Responsibilities in Conflict: Discrimination, Diversity, and Affirmative Action	p. 208
Discrimination	p. 210
Diversity	p. 212
Affirmative Action	p. 214
Readings	p. 224
Worker Rights and Low Wage Industrialization: How to Avoid Sweatshops	p. 225
Women in the Workplace: Freedom of Choice or Freedom from Choice?	p. 235
Employment-at-Will, Employee Rights, and Future Directions for Employment	p. 240
Ethical Decision Making: Technology and Privacy in the Workplace	p. 253
Introduction	p. 255
The Right to Privacy	p. 256
Defining Privacy	p. 257
Ethical Sources of a Right to Privacy	p. 257
Legal Sources of a Right to Privacy	p. 259
Linking the Value of Privacy to the Ethical Implications of Technology	p. 263
Information and Privacy	p. 264
Managing Employees through Monitoring	p. 267
Business Reasons to Limit Monitoring	p. 271
Balancing Interests	p. 271
Monitoring Employees through Drug Testing	p. 274
Other Forms of Monitoring	p. 276
Regulation of Off-Work Acts	p. 277
Privacy Rights since September 11. 2001	p. 280
Readings	p. 288
The New Economy: Ethical Issues	p. 289
Gene Machine: Keep Your Hands off Our Genes	p. 296
Drug Testing and the Right to Privacy: Arguing the Ethics of Workplace Drug Testing	p. 301
Alternative Explanations for Drug Testing-Blaming the Individual	p. 307
Ethics and Marketing	p. 311
Introduction	p. 313
Ethical Issues in Marketing: A Framework	p. 315
Responsibility for Products: Safety and Liability	p. 318
Contractual Standards for Product Safety	p. 319
Tort Standards for Product Safety	p. 321
Strict Product Liability	p. 326
Ethical Debates on Product Liability	p. 326
Responsibility for Products: Advertising and Sales	p. 328
Ethical Issues in Advertising	p. 330
Marketing Ethics and Consumer Autonomy	p. 333
Marketing to Vulnerable Populations	p. 336
Supply Chain Responsibility	p. 341
Readings	p. 347
An Interview with Alex Molnar	p. 347
Sony Online Entertainment: EverQuest or EverCrack? Oxford-Style Debate Presented at Tenth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics	p. 351
Everquest: A Rejoinder to Hartman and Pava	p. 361
Wrestling with Ethics: Is Marketing Ethics an Oxymoron?	p. 362
Business, the Environment, and Sustainability	p. 369
Introduction	p. 371
Business Ethics and Environmental Values	p. 372
Business's Environmental Responsibility: The Market Approach	p. 376
Business's Environmental Responsibility: The Regulatory Approach	p. 381
Business's Environmental Responsibilities: The Sustainability Approach	p. 383
Business Opportunities in a Sustainable Economy	p. 387
Principles for a Sustainable Business	p. 389
Readings	p. 394
Morality, Money, and Motor Cars	p. 395
The Next Industrial Revolution	p. 401
Taking Sustainability Seriously: An Argument for Managerial Responsibility	p. 410
Ethical Decision Making: Corporate Governance, Accounting, and Finance	p. 419
Professional Duties and Conflicts of Interest	p. 422
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002	p. 426
The Internal Control Environment	p. 428
Going beyond the Law: Being an Ethical Board Member	p. 430
Legal Duties of Board Members	p. 430
Beyond the Law, There Is Ethics	p. 431
Conflicts of Interest in Accounting and the Financial Markets	p. 434
Executive Compensation	p. 436
Insider Trading	p. 442
Readings	p. 451
Excerpts from "Enron: The Parable"	p. 451
WorldCom with Worldcom Update	p. 457
Will the SEC Ever Get Serious about Making Corporate Insiders Pay for Fraud?	p. 467
Three Women's Moral Courage: Why We Care	p. 468
Glossary	p. 471
Index	p. 479
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