Ethical theory and business
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Ethical theory and business
Pearson, c2013
9th ed., student ed
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Previous ed.: c2009
Includes bibliographical references
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Description
An anthology of readings, legal perspectives, and cases in business ethics.
Ethical Theory and Business provides students with a strong understanding of ethics in business. Case studies, a discussion of ethical theory, and a diverse range of perspectives on specific topics give students the tools needed to address ethical situations in business and challenge them to think for themselves.
Learning Goals
Upon completing this book readers will be able to:
Reflect on ethical and sustainable business practices
Understand the role of ethics in all function areas of business including management, marketing, international business, human resources, finance, and accounting
Discuss the most pressing issues confronting business leaders today
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Table of Contents
Found in this section:
1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Full Table of Contents
1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter One Ethical Theory and Business Practice
Chapter Two Corporate Responsibility
Chapter Three Ethical Treatment of Employees
Chapter Four Diversity and Discrimination in the Workplace
Chapter Five Marketing and the Disclosure of Information
Chapter Six Ethical Issues in Finance and accounting
Chapter Seven Ethical Issues regarding Emerging Technologies
Chapter Eight Environmental Sustainability
Chapter Nine Social and Economic Justice
2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter One: Ethical Theory and Business Practice
Fundamental Concepts and Problems
Approaches to the Study of Morality and Ethical Theory
Contemporary Trends in Ethical Theory
Cases
Case 1: The Training Program
Case 2: Should Company Policy Apply to All?
Case 3: Should Everything Be for Sale?
Chapter Two: Corporate Responsibility
Introduction
Stockholder Management Versus Stakeholder Management
Milton Friedman, The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits
R. Edward Freeman, Managing for Stakeholders
John R. Boatright, What's Wrong--- and What's Right -- with Stakeholder Management
Wayne F. Cascio, Decency Means More than "Always Low Prices": A Comparison of Costco to Wal-Mart's Sam's Club
Eric Orts and Alan Strudler, Putting a Stake in Stakeholder Theory
Ethical Cultures & Moral Responsibility
Linda Trevino and Katherine Nelson, Ethics as Organizational Culture
John R. Boatright, Individual Responsibility in the American Corporation System: Does Sarbanes Oxley Strike the Right Balance?
Legal Perspectives
Michigan Supreme Court, Dodge v. Ford Motor Co.
Supreme Court of New Jersey, A. P. Smith Manufacturing Co. v. Barlow
Johnson & Johnson: Our Credo
Cases
Case 1: The NYSEG Corporate Responsibility Program
Case 2: Outsourcing at Any Cost?
Case 3: H. B. Fuller in Honduras: Street Children and Substance Abuse
Case 4: Merck & River Blindness
Case 5: From Tension to Cooperative Dialogue: HolcimCase 6: The Bachelor Party
Case 7: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster: Challenges in Ethical Decision MakingSuggested Supplementary Readings
Chapter Three: Ethical Treatment of Employees
Introduction
The Hiring And Firing Of Employees
Patricia H. Werhane and Tara J. Radin, Employment at Will and Due Process
Richard A. Epstein, In Defense of the Contract at Will
Occupational Risk
Ruth R. Faden and Tom L. Beauchamp, The Right to Risk Information and the Right to Refuse Workplace Hazards
John R. Boatright, Occupational Health and Safety
Whistleblowing
Ronald Duska, Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty
George Brenkert, Whistleblowing, Moral Integrity, and Organizational Ethics
Legal Perspectives
Superior Court of New Jersey, Warthen v. Toms River Community Memorial Hospital
Supreme Court of the United States, Automobile Workers v. Johnson Controls, Inc.
Superior Court of New Jersey, Potter v. Village Bank of New Jersey
Cases
Case 1: Off-duty Smoking
Case 2: Fired for Drinking the Wrong Brand of Beer
Case 3: Exposing Workers to Plutonium
Case 4: BP Workers Ill Trained for Dangers
Case 5: The Reluctant Security Guard
Case 6: A Matter of Principle
Suggested Supplementary Readings
Chapter Four: Diversity and Discrimination in the Workplace
Introduction
Diversity And Affirmative Action
Tom L. Beauchamp, Affirmative Action and Diversity Goals in Hiring and Promotion
James P. Sterba, A Defense of Diversity Affirmative Action
George Sher, Diversity
Sexual Harassment
Larry May, Sexual Harassment and Solidarity
Jaimie Leeser and William O'Donohue, Normative Issues in Defining Sexual Harassment
Legal Perspectives
Supreme Court of the United States, Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Worker's International Association v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Supreme Court of the United States, Grutter V. Bollinger
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Opinion of the Court
Justice Clarence Thomas, Dissenting Opinion
Brief for 65 Leading American Businesses [Amici Brief]
Supreme Court of the United States, Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson, et al.
Supreme Court of the United States, Teresa Harris, Petitioner v. Forklift Systems, Inc.
Cases
Case 1: Kaiser Aluminum and the United Steelworkers
Case 2: Promotions at Uptown Bottling and Canning Company
Case 3: How Would You Vote if You Lived in Michigan?
Case 4: Gay and Lesbian Rights at Friendly Motors
Case 5: Freedom of Expression at American Plastics Products
Case 6: Harassment at Brademore Electric
Suggested Supplementary Readings
Chapter Five: Marketing and the Disclosure of Information
Introduction
Advertising And Disclosure
David M. Holley, Information Disclosure in Sales
Robert L. Arrington, Advertising and Behavior Control
George Brenkert, Marketing and the Vulnerable
Pharmaceutical Marketing
Carl Elliott, The Drug Pushers
Denis G. Arnold, The Ethics of Direct to Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising
Legal Perspectives
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Irving A. Backman v. Polaroid Corporation
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, B. Sanfield, Inc. v. Finlay Fine Jewelry Corp.
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Coca-Cola Company v. Tropicana Products, Inc
Supreme Court of California, Kasky v. Nike, Inc..
Cases
Case 1: Advice for Sale
Case 2: Sales at World Camera and Electronics
Case 3: Hucksters in the Classroom
Case 4: Kraft Foods Inc.: The Cost of Advertising on Children's Waistlines
Case 5: Merck & Company: The Vioxx Recall
Case 6: Pfizer, Repeat Offender
Suggested Supplementary Readings
Chapter Six: Ethical Issues in Finance and Accounting
Introduction
Accounting Ethics
Ronald Duska and Brenda Duska, Ethics in Auditing: The Auditing Function
Colin Boyd, The Structural Origins of Conflicts of Interest in the Accounting Profession Financial Services
John R. Boatright, Ethical Issues in Financial Services
Alan Strudler, The Moral Problem of Insider Trading
Richard Nielsen, High Leverage Finance Capitalism: Ethical Issues and Potential Reforms
Legal Perspectives
U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. v. O'Hagan
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Code of Professional Conduct
Cases
Case 1: An Auditor's Dilemma
Case 2: Accounting for Enron
Case 3: Enron and Employee Investment Risk
Case 4: Predatory Lending at Countrywide Financial
Case 5: Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.: An Accusation of Insider Trading
Suggested Supplementary Readings
Chapter Seven: Ethical Issues regarding Emerging Technologies
Introduction
Information And The World Wide Web
Deborah G. Johnson, Privacy & Internet Ethics
Jeffery D. Smith, Internet Content Providers and Complicity in Human Rights Abuse
Pharmaceutical Patents
Richard T. De George, Intellectual Property and Pharmaceutical Drugs: An Ethical Analysis
Patricia H. Werhane and Michael E. Gorman, Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Life-Enhancing Drugs, and Corporate Moral Responsibilities
Legal Perspectives
U.S. Supreme Court, Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios Inc.
United States District Court for the Northern District of California, A & M Records v. Napster
World Trade Organization, Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
Cases
Case 1: Social Media and the Modern Worker: The Use of Facebook as an Organizational Monitoring and Management Tool
Case 2: Privacy at MyFriends.com
Case 3: Patents and the African Aids Epidemic
Case 4: Aventis: Partnerships for Health
Suggested Supplementary Readings
Chapter Eight: Environmental Sustainability
Introduction
Environmental Obligations And Climate Change
Norman E. Bowie, Morality, Money and Motor Cars
Denis G. Arnold with Keith Bustos, Business, Ethics, and Global Climate Change
Sustainability And Natural Capitalism
Allen Holland, Sustainability
Paul Hawken, Amory Lovens, and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism
Stuart L. Hart, Taking the Green Leap to the Base of the Pyramid
Legal Perspectives
United States Supreme Court, United States v. Best Foods et al.
United States Supreme Court, Whitman, et al. v. American Trucking Associations, Inc.
Cases
Case 1: Royal Caribbean: Exotic Promises & Toxic Waters
Case 2: Texaco in the Ecuadorean Amazon
Case 3: BP: Beyond Petroleum Spills?
Case 4: Maintaining a Seat at the Table: The Shell Group
Case 5: Interface Corporation and Sustainable Business
Case 6: What Does it Mean to be Truly Green?: Environmental Sustainability at Frito Lay North America
Case 7: Ethics and Sustainability at Alcoa: A Symbiotic Relationship
Suggested Supplementary Readings
Chapter Nine: Social and Economic Justice
Introduction
Economic Justice
John Rawls, An Egalitarian Theory of Justice
Robert Nozick, The Entitlement Theory
Justice At WorkJeffery Moriarty, Do CEOs Get Paid Too Much?
Global Justice
Martin Wolf, Why Globalization Works
Thomas Pogge, Priorities of Global Justice
Legal Perspective
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Cases
Case 1: Sapora's Patriarchical Society
Case 2: Cocaine at the Fortune-500 Level
Case 3: Wages of Failure: The Ethics of Executive Compensation
Case 4: Shareholder Losses and Executive Gains: Bank of America's Acquisition of Merrill Lynch
Case 5: SC Johnson: Pyrethrum Sourcing from Kenya
Case 6: Coca-Cola: The Entrepreneur Development Program - South Africa
Suggested Supplementary Readings
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