Ethical Issues in Business : A Philosophical Approach
ISBN: 9780131846197 | 0131846191
Edition: 8thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 6/11/2007
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This widely used business ethics book begins by introducing students/readers to moral reasoning. A collection of readings and cases from both philosophical literature and business articles apply ethical theory to real-life business situations. Well-known scandals involving companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Merrill Lynch, and Parmalat have increased public awareness of business ethics, underscored its importance, and ushered in a new era of increased corporate regulation and governance. Now, more than ever, a student planning on entering the... MORE
| General Introduction | |
| Introduction to Ethical Reasoning | |
| Does Business Ethics Make Economic Sense? | |
| General Issues In Ethics | |
| Truth Telling | |
| Case Study: Italian Tax Mores | |
| Ethical Duties Towards Others: Truthfulness | |
| Is Business Bluffing Ethical? | |
| Business Ethics and Politics | |
| Promoting Honesty in Negotiation... MORE | |
| Virtues and the Virtuous Manager: Case Study: Run Inc | |
| American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Corporate Roles Personal Virtues: An Aristotelean Approach to Business Ethics | |
| Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work | |
| Property profit and Justice | |
| Traditional Theories of Property and Profit: | |
| Case Study: Plasma International | |
| Case Study: Dorrence Corporation Trade-offs | |
| The Justification of Private Property | |
| Alienated Labor | |
| Benefits of the Profit Motive | |
| Wealth | |
| Property and Profit: Modern Discussions | |
| Case Study: Merck & Co. Inc. | |
| The Business Enterprise Trust | |
| The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase | |
| Can Socially Responsible Firms Survive in a Competitive Environment | |
| The Moral Muteness of Managers | |
| Justice | |
| Case Study: The Oil Rig | |
| Distributive Justice | |
| The Entitlement Theory | |
| Complex Equality | |
| Corporations persons and Morality | |
| The Moral Responsibility of Corporations | |
| Case Study: H.B. Fuller in Hondura | |
| Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation | |
| Business Ethics and Stakeholder Analysis | |
| The New U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines: A Wake-Up Call for Corporate America | |
| Parable of the Sadhu | |
| Employee Rights and Responsibilities | |
| Case Study: The Aircraft Brake Scandal | |
| Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility | |
| Employment at Will and Due Process | |
| In Defense of Contract at Will | |
| Employability Security | |
| Diversity | |
| Case Study: Ellen Moore: Living and Working in Bahrain | |
| Case Study: Is This the Right Time to Come Out? | |
| Management Women and the New Facts of Life Schwartz | |
| White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies | |
| Sexual Harassment | |
| International Business | |
| Ethical Relativism | |
| Case Study: What Price Safety? from Uncompromising Integrity: Motorola's Global Challenge | |
| Relativism Cultural and Moral | |
| The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights | |
| Business Values Away from Home | |
| Case Study: Just When is a Tip Only Another Means to Insure Promptness? | |
| Case Study: Levi Strauss & Co. | |
| International Business Ethics and Incipient Capitalism: A Double Standard? | |
| Values in Tension: Ethics away from Home Thomas Donaldson Harvard Business Review (September-October 1996) | |
| Contemporary Business Themes | |
| Marketing | |
| Case Study: Joe Camel: The Cartoon Character Who Sells Cigarettes | |
| Persuasive Advertising, Autonomy, and the Creation of Desire | |
| Ethical Myopia: The Case of Framing by Framing | |
| Marketing to Inner-City Blacks: PowerMaster and Moral Responsibility | |
| Strategy | |
| Case Study: Sears Auto Centers | |
| The Leader's New Work: Building Learning Organizations | |
| The Many Faces of the Corporate Code | |
| Managing for Organizational Integrity | |
| The Environment | |
| Case Study: Shell and Nigerian Oil | |
| Scarcity or Abundance? | |
| Holes in the Cornucopia | |
| Biographical Information | |
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