Ethics and the Conduct of Business: International Edition
Autor John R. Boatrighten Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 oct 2008
The focus of Ethics and the Conduct of Business is primarily on ethical issues that corporate decision makers face in developing policies about employees, customers, and the general public. The positions on these issues and the arguments for them are taken from a wide variety of sources, including economics and the law.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780205689576
ISBN-10: 0205689574
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 178 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Ediția:6Nouă
Editura: Pearson Education
Colecția Pearson Education
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States
ISBN-10: 0205689574
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 178 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Ediția:6Nouă
Editura: Pearson Education
Colecția Pearson Education
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States
Cuprins
Ethics and the Conduct of Business, 6th Edition
1) Ethics in the World of Business
Business Decision Making
Ethics, Economics, and Law
Ethics and Management
Business Ethics and Ethical Theory
2) Welfare, Rights, and Justice
Utilitarianism
Rights and Justice
The Market System
Cost-Benefit Analysis
3) Equality, Liberty, and Virtue
Kantian Ethics
Rawls’s Egalitarian Theory
Libertarianism
Virtue Ethics
4) Whistle-Blowing
What is Whistle-Blowing?
The Justification of Whistle-Blowing
Is There a Right to Blow the Whistle?
Developing a Whistle-Blowing Policy
5) Trade Secrets and Conflict of Interest
Trade Secret Protection
Competitor Intelligence Gathering
Conflict of Interest
6) Privacy
Challenges to Privacy
The Meaning and Value of Privacy
The Privacy of Employee Records
Privacy on the Internet
7) Discrimination and Affirmative Action
What is Discrimination?
Sexual Harassment
Arguments Against Discrimination
Avoiding Discrimination and Harassment
Affirmative Action
8) Employment Rights
Unjust Dismissal
Expression and Participation
Just Compensation
9) Occupational Health and Safety
The Scope of the Problem
The Right to Know About and Refuse Hazardous Work
The Problem of Reproductive Hazards
10) Marketing, Advertising, and Product Safety
Marketing
Advertising
Product safety
11) Ethics in Finance
Financial Services
Financial Markets
Insider Trading
Hostile Takeovers
12) Corporate Social Responsibility
The Debate Over CSR
The Business Case for CSR
Implementing CSR
13) Corporate Governance and Accountability
Corporate Governance
Corporate Ethics
Corporate Accountability
14) International Business Ethics
What to do in Rome
Wages and Working Conditions
Foreign Bribery
Cultural Differences
1) Ethics in the World of Business
Business Decision Making
Ethics, Economics, and Law
Ethics and Management
Business Ethics and Ethical Theory
2) Welfare, Rights, and Justice
Utilitarianism
Rights and Justice
The Market System
Cost-Benefit Analysis
3) Equality, Liberty, and Virtue
Kantian Ethics
Rawls’s Egalitarian Theory
Libertarianism
Virtue Ethics
4) Whistle-Blowing
What is Whistle-Blowing?
The Justification of Whistle-Blowing
Is There a Right to Blow the Whistle?
Developing a Whistle-Blowing Policy
5) Trade Secrets and Conflict of Interest
Trade Secret Protection
Competitor Intelligence Gathering
Conflict of Interest
6) Privacy
Challenges to Privacy
The Meaning and Value of Privacy
The Privacy of Employee Records
Privacy on the Internet
7) Discrimination and Affirmative Action
What is Discrimination?
Sexual Harassment
Arguments Against Discrimination
Avoiding Discrimination and Harassment
Affirmative Action
8) Employment Rights
Unjust Dismissal
Expression and Participation
Just Compensation
9) Occupational Health and Safety
The Scope of the Problem
The Right to Know About and Refuse Hazardous Work
The Problem of Reproductive Hazards
10) Marketing, Advertising, and Product Safety
Marketing
Advertising
Product safety
11) Ethics in Finance
Financial Services
Financial Markets
Insider Trading
Hostile Takeovers
12) Corporate Social Responsibility
The Debate Over CSR
The Business Case for CSR
Implementing CSR
13) Corporate Governance and Accountability
Corporate Governance
Corporate Ethics
Corporate Accountability
14) International Business Ethics
What to do in Rome
Wages and Working Conditions
Foreign Bribery
Cultural Differences
Textul de pe ultima copertă
Ethics
and the
Conduct of Business
Sixth Edition
John R. Boatright
Comprehensive and thorough in scope, Ethics and the Conduct of Business, sixth edition, frames each issue and examines the arguments for each side with rigor and clarity. Numerous real-life examples and case studies increase understanding of issues and stimulate class discussion. The revised and updated sixth edition retains previous editions' familiar structure. A chapter on employee rights has been expanded to include not only unjust dismissal but also expression and participation in the workplace and just compensation. The coverage of corporate social responsibility has been expanded and new material on corporate accountability has been added. Of the forty-seven cases in the book, fourteen are new.
FEATURES
- Uses ethical theory in an easy-to-understand form as a foundation for approaching business ethics.
- Offers forth-seven cases that illustrate a wide variety of issues and enable students to engage in ethical decision making.
- Covers the full range of business ethics issues in substantial depth and provides the necessary background for productive case discussion.
- Explains the legal background of issues and related business ethics to business law.
John R. Boatright, the Raymond C. Baumhart, S.J., Professor of Business Ethics at Loyola University Chicago, is a past president and past executive director of the Society for Business Ethics. He serves on the editorial boards of Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business and Society Review, and he is the author of Ethics in Finance, second edition.
Caracteristici
Hallmark features of Ethics and the Conduct of Business:
- Ethics and the Conduct of Business creates a foundation for approaching business ethics:
- Focus of the text is primarily on ethical issues that corporate decision-makers face in developing policies about employees, customers, and the general public.
- Stresses the importance of ethical theory as essential for a full understanding of the main issues in business ethics without allowing theoretical concepts to overwhelm the text and other discussion elements.
- Numerous examples are used throughout the book to explain points and show the discussion's relevance to real-life business practices.
- Ethics and the Conduct of Business utilizes up-to-date, real-life examples:
- This book employs forty-seven case studies that firmly illustrate the wide variety of issues pertaining to business ethics and enable students to engage in ethical decision making:
- The case studies are not confined to a single academic discipline, but rather are widely debated by legislators, judges, government regulators, business leaders, journalists, and, indeed, virtually everyone interested in business.
- The substantial number of cases included provide ample opportunity for a case-study approach or a combined lecture–discussion format.
- This book employs forty-seven case studies that firmly illustrate the wide variety of issues pertaining to business ethics and enable students to engage in ethical decision making:
- Ethics and the Conduct of Business incorporates the relation of business ethics to business law:
- Substantial amount of legal material is contained within the book, not only because the law addresses many ethical issues, but also because management decision-making must take account of relevant legal practices.
Caracteristici noi
New to the 6th edition of Ethics and the Conduct of Business:
- NEW! Revised chapter on employment rights:
- Retains original discussion pertaining to unjust dismissal, but now includes additional material on right expression and participation in the workplace,
and issues in just compensation.
- Retains original discussion pertaining to unjust dismissal, but now includes additional material on right expression and participation in the workplace,
- NEW! In-depth study of corporate governance and accountability:
- Previous edition’s chapter on corporate social responsibility has been divided and expanded into two new chapters that give more attention and detail to social responsibility, corporate governance, ethics, and accountability.
- Discussion topics include more coverage of the bearing of the Sarbenes-Oxley Act and the issues arising from scandals engulfing Enron, WorldCom and Arthur Andersen.
- NEW! 14 new, up-to-date case studies providing discussion and direction for ethical decision-making. Among 14 new cases are:
- KPMG
- Hewlett-Packard
- Wal-Mart
- Saturn
- Starbucks
- Martha Stewart and insider trading