Ethical Theory and Business

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9780130831446
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0130831441
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 10/01/2000
Publisher: PRENTICE HALL
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Summary

For one-semester, sophomore/senior-level courses in Business Ethics, Corporate Responsibility, and Business and Society. This book presents a comprehensive anthology of readings, legal perspectives, and cases in ethics in business. Focuses on providing and explaining the tools needed to deal with ethical dilemmas in business.

Preface

Ethical Theory and Business Practice

(44)

Fundamental Concepts and Problems

Morality and Ethical Theory

(1)

Morality and Prudence

(2)

Morality and Law

(1)

The Rule of Conscience

(1)

Approaches to the Study of Morality

(1)

Relativism and Objectivity of Belief

(3)

Moral Disagreements

(2)

The Problem of Egoism

(5)

Normative Ethical Theory

Utilitarian Theories

(7)

Kantian Ethics

(5)

Contemporary Challenges to the Dominant Theories

(1)

Common Morality Theories

(1)

Rights Theories

(3)

Virtue Ethics

(2)

Feminist Theories and the Ethics of Care

(3)

A Prologue to Theories of Justice

(1)

Analysis of Cases

The Case Method in Law

(1)

The Case Method in Business

(1)

The Case Method in Ethics

(1)

Ethical Theory and Case Analysis

(4)

The Purpose of the Corporation

(61)

Introduction

Stockholder Management Versus Stakeholder Management

The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits

(5)

Milton Friedman

A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation

(10)

R. Edward Freeman

Which View is Right?

Business Ethics and Stakeholder Analysis

(9)

Kenneth E. Goodpaster

Fiduciary Duties and the Shareholder-Management Relation: Or, What's So Special About Shareholders?

(11)

John R. Boatright

Legal Perspectives

Michigan Supreme Court, Dodge v. Ford Motor Company

(2)

Supreme Court of New Jersey, A. P. Smith Manufacturing Co. v. Barlow

(2)

TIAA-CREF, Policy Statement on Corporate Governance

(5)

Cases

Shutdown at Eastland

(1)

The NYSEG Corporate Responsibility Program

(2)

H.B. Fuller in Honduras: Street Children and Substance Abuse

(2)

The Wall Street Effect

100

(1)

The Health Business

101

(3)

Suggested Supplementary Readings

104

(2)

The Regulation of Business: Accountability and Responsibility

106

(65)

Introduction

Compliance Theory and Self-Regulation

Business Codes and Economic Efficiency

112

(2)

Kenneth J. Arrow

The Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations: A Framework for Ethical Compliance

114

(7)

O. C. Ferrell

Debbie Thorne LeClair

Linda Ferrell

Managing Ethics and Legal Compliance: What Works and What Hurts

121

(6)

Linda Klebe Trevino

Gary R. Weaver

David G. Gibson

Barbara Lee Toffler

Determining Responsibility

Roger Boisjoly and the Challenger Disaster: The Ethical Dimensions

127

(15)

Russell P. Boisjoly

Ellen Foster Curtis

Eugene Mellican

How Can We Save the Next Victim?

142

(10)

Lisa Belkin

Legal Perspectives

Federal Sentencing Guidelines---Sentencing of Organizations

152

(6)

Excerpts from V-Chip Legislation, U.S. Congress Telecommunications Act of 1996

158

(2)

Johnson and Johnson: Our Credo

160

(1)

Cases

Retailers and Weapons: Self-Imposed Bans

161

(1)

Rock Music Warning Labels

162

(2)

An Auditor's Dilemma

164

(1)

Beech-Nut Corporation

165

(1)

Grantman Piedman

166

(3)

Suggested Supplementary Readings

169

(2)

Acceptable Risk

171

(85)

Introduction

Consumer Risk

The Ethics of Consumer Production

181

(8)

Manuel Velasquez

Strict Products Liability and Compensatory Justice

189

(6)

George G. Brenkert

Occupational Risk

The Right to Risk Information and the Right to Refuse Workplace Hazards

195

(8)

Ruth R. Faden

Tom L. Beauchamp

The Nature of the Worker's Right to Know

203

(7)

Thomas O. McGarity

Environmental Risk

Safety, Risk, and Environmental Protection

210

(6)

Richard T. De George

Shades of Green: Business, Ethics, and the Environment

216

(8)

R. Edward Freeman

Jessica Pierce

Richard Dodd

Investment Risk

The Individual Investor in Securities Markets: An Ethical Analysis

224

(7)

Robert E. Frederick

W. Michael Hoffman

Management Buyouts and Managerial Ethics

231

(6)

Robert F. Bruner

Lynn Sharp Paine

Legal Perspectives

Supreme Court of New Jersey, Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. and Chrysler Corporation

237

(11)

Supreme Court of the United States, Automobile Workers v. Johnson Controls, Inc.

241

(3)

Supreme Court of the United States United States, Petitioner v. Bestfoods et al.

244

(4)

Cases

Protecting Consumers Against Tobacco

248

(1)

Exposing Workers to Plutonium

249

(1)

The McDonald's Polystyrene Case

250

(2)

Virazole and Investor Risk

252

(1)

OSHA Noncompliance and Security

253

(1)

Suggested Supplementary Readings

253

(3)

Rights and Obligations of Employers and Employees

256

(113)

Introduction

Ethical Issues Surrounding the Hiring and Firing of Employees

Employment at Will and Due Process

266

(9)

Patricia H. Werhane

Tara J. Radin

In Defense of the Contract at Will

275

(8)

Richard A. Epstein

Privacy

Drug Testing in Employment

283

(11)

Joseph Desjardins

Ronald Duska

Drug Testing and the Right to Privacy: Arguing the Ethics of Workplace Drug Testing

294

(9)

Michael Cranford

The Ethics of Genetic Screening in the Workplace

303

(7)

Joseph Kupfer

The Genetics Revolution, Economics, Ethics, and Insurance

310

(8)

Patrick L. Brockett

E. Susan Tankersley

Ethical Issues in Electronic Performance Monitoring

318

(17)

G. Stoney Alder

Whistleblowing

Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty

335

Ronald Duska

Whistleblowing and Trust: Some Lessons from the ADM Scandal

330

(6)

Daryl Koehn

Legal Perspectives

Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, State of New York v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

336

(2)

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Pasch v. Katz Media Corporation Katz, Radio Group and Christal Radio

338

(4)

Superior Court of Alaska, Leudtke v. Nabors Alaska Drilling, Inc.

342

(9)

Superior Court of New Jersey, Warthen v. Toms River Memorial Hospital

351

(4)

Superior Court of New Jersey, Potter v. Village Bank of New Jersey

355

(4)

Cases

The Reluctant Security Guard

359

(4)

Probable Cause and Drug Testing

363

(1)

A Matter of Principle

363

(1)

A ``State of the Art'' Termination

364

(2)

Health and Genetic Screening

366

(1)

Suggested Supplementary Readings

367

(2)

Hiring, Firing, and Discriminating

369

(86)

Introduction

Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination

A Defense of Affirmative Action

379

(4)

Thomas Nagel

Affirmative Action and the Demands of Justice

383

(10)

N. Scott Arnold

Goals and Quotas in Hiring and Promotion

393

(8)

Tom L. Beauchamp

Pay Equity and Comparable Worth

Pay Equity

401

(5)

Judith M. Hill

Resolving the Debate over Comparable Worth: Some Philosophical Considerations

406

(9)

Ellen Frankel Paul

Sexual Harassment

Making Sense of Sexual Harassment Law

415

(6)

Andrew Altman

Sexual Harassment: Why the Corporate World Still Doesn't ``Get It''

421

(6)

Vaughana Macy Feary

Legal Perspectives

Supreme Court of the United States, Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers' International Association v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

427

(6)

Supreme Court of the United States, City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson Company

433

(5)

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees v. State of Washington

438

(4)

Supreme Court of the United States, Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson, et al.

442

(4)

Cases

``Harassment'' at Brademore Electric

446

(1)

Sing's Chinese Restaurant

447

(1)

Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio

448

(1)

Weber and the Kaiser Aluminum, Steelworkers Paln

449

(1)

Firefighters Local Union No. 1784 v. Stotts

450

(1)

Comparable Worth in the Female Section?

451

(1)

Suggested Supplementary Readings

452

(3)

Marketing and Disclosure

455

(72)

Introduction

Marketing, Truth, and Trust

Marketing and Truth

463

(6)

Richard T. De George

Marketing Trust: Barriers and Bridges

469

(7)

George G. Brenkert

Advertising

Manipulative Advertising

476

(9)

Tom L. Beauchamp

The Inconclusive Ethical Case Against Manipulative Advertising

485

(6)

Michael J. Phillips

Sales

Paternalism in the Marketplace: Should a Salesman Be His Buyer's Keeper?

491

(2)

James M. Ebejer

Michael J. Morden

Information Disclosure in Sales

493

(8)

David M. Holley

Bluffing

Is Business Bluffing Ethical?

501

(5)

Albert Z. Carr

Second Thoughts About Bluffing

506

(6)

Thomas L. Carson

Legal Perspectives

United States Court of Appeals (First Circuit), Irving A. Backman v. Polaroid Corporation

512

(4)

United States Court of Appeals (Second Circuit), The Coca-Cola Company v. Tropicana Products, Inc.

516

(2)

Cases

Marketing Malt Liquor

518

(1)

Marketing the Giant Quart

519

(1)

Advertising Joe Camel

519

(1)

Green Advertising

520

(1)

Food Labels and Artful Sales

521

(2)

Computer Math for Car Loans

523

(1)

The Conventions of Lying on Wall Street

524

(1)

Suggested Supplementary Readings

525

(2)

Ethical Issues in International Business

527

(114)

Introduction

When in Rome, Should You Do as The Romans Do?

Relativism and the Moral Obligations of Multinational Corporations

533

(9)

Norman E. Bowie

What Can Eastern Philosophy Teach Us About Business Ethics?

542

(14)

Daryl Koehn

Business Ethics: A Japanese View

556

(6)

Iwao Taka

Exporting Mental Models: Global Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

562

(7)

Patricia Werhane

Bribery

Gift Giving, Bribery, and Corruption: Ethical Management of Business Relationships in China

569

(10)

P. Steidlmier

When Ethics Travel: The Promise and Peril of Global Business Ethics

579

(7)

Thomas Donaldson

Thomas W. Dunfee

Capitalism in the Third World

The Campus Anti-Sweatshop Movement

586

(7)

Richard Applebaum

Peter Dreier

The Great Non-Debate Over International Sweatshops

593

(12)

Ian Maitland

The Price of a Dream

605

(7)

David Bornstein

Legal Perspectives

Supreme Court of the United States, Ali Boureslan v. Arabian American Oil Company and Aramco Services Company

612

(5)

Supreme Court of Texas, Dow Chemical Company and Shell Oil Company v. Domingo Castro Alfaro et al.

617

(6)

Caux Roundtable, Principles for Business

623

(4)

Cases

Foreign Assignment

627

(2)

The Nestle Corporation

629

(1)

Facilitation or Bribery: Cultural and Ethical Disparities

630

(2)

The Gap

632

(5)

Texaco in the Ecuadorian Amazon

637

(2)

Suggested Supplementary Readings

639

(2)

Social and Economic Justice

641

(56)

Introduction

Theories of Social Justice

An Egalitarian Theory of Justice

649

(8)

John Rawls

The Entitlement Theory

657

(4)

Robert Nozick

Rich and Poor

661

(6)

Peter Singer

Spheres of Justice

667

(8)

Michael Walzer

International Economic Justice

Negotiating Justice

675

(5)

Richard T. DeGeorge

The Ethics of Conditionality in International Debt

680

(8)

Thomas Donaldson

Legal Perspectives

Law of the Sea and the Common Heritage Principle

688

(2)

Thomas M. Franck

Cases

Baseball Economics

690

(2)

Enron and Dabhol Power

692

(1)

South Africa and the Pharmaceutical Companies

693

(1)

Cocaine at the Fortune-500 Level

694

(1)

Covering the Costs of Health Care

695

(2)

Suggested Supplementary Readings

697

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