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product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0357453875
- ISBN-13 : 978-1305972544
- Author: Marianne M. Jennings
Gain a better understanding of common threads and patterns of ethical challenges with cases and readings drawn from pop culture, business, and history. BUSINESS ETHICS: CASE STUDIES AND SELECTED READINGS, 9E provides relevant issues, such as getting out of student loans the consequences and societal costs as well as benefit to graduates. Probing questions and content force you to look beyond emotions and opinions to evaluate the costs of ethical decisions, such as Edward Snowden’s actions and whether they harmed or helped society. Cases provide historical perspective as you learn how individuals slip into behavior that lead to ethical and legal breaches. Real examples of business decisions gone awry in this market-leading collection of readings present patterns of behaviors and choices that often result in the destruction of businesses and personal lives. Perspective and insights provide a knowledge base for readers to recognize and resolve ethical issues.
table of contents:
UNIT 1: Ethical Theory, Philosophical Foundations, Our Reasoning Flaws, Types of Ethical Dilemmas, and You.
SECTION A Understanding Ourselves and Ethical Lapses.
SECTION B Ethical Theory and Philosophical Foundations.
SECTION C The Types of Ethical Dilemmas.
SECTION D Our Reasoning Flaws.
SECTION E Analyzing and Resolving Ethical Dilemmas.
UNIT 2: Solving Ethical Dilemmas in Business.
SECTION A Business, Ethics, and Individuals: How Do They Work Together?
SECTION B What Gets in the Way of Ethical Decisions in Business?
SECTION C Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Business.
UNIT 3: Business, Stakeholders, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability.
SECTION A Business and Society: The Tough Issues of Economics, Social Responsibility, Stakeholders, and Business.
SECTION B Applying Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory.
SECTION C Government as a Stakeholder.
UNIT 4: Ethics and Company Culture.
SECTION A Temptation at Work for Individual Gain and That Credo.
SECTION B The Organizational Behavior Factors.
SECTION C Accounting and Governance Factor.
SECTION D The Psychological and Behavior Factors.
SECTION E The Structural Factors: Governance, Example, and Leadership.
SECTION F Industry Practices and Legal Factors.
SECTION G The Fear-and-Silence Factors.
SECTION H Culture of Goodness.
UNIT 5: Ethics and Contracts.
SECTION A Contract Negotiations: All Is Fair and Conflicting Interests.
SECTION B Promises, Performance, and Reality.
UNIT 6: Ethics in International Business.
SECTION A Conflicts between the Corporation’s Ethics and Business Practices in Foreign Countries.
SECTION B Bribes, Grease Payments, and “When in Rome …”
UNIT 7: Ethics, Business Operations, and Rights.
SECTION A Workplace Safety.
SECTION B Workplace Loyalty.
SECTION C Workplace Diversity and Atmosphere.
SECTION D Tough Issues and Confrontation in the Workplace.
UNIT 8: Ethics and Products.
SECTION A Advertising Content.
SECTION B Product Safety.
SECTION C Product Sales.
UNIT 9: Ethics and Competition.
SECTION A Covenants Not to Compete.
SECTION B All’s Fair, or Is It?
SECTION C Intellectual Property and Ethics.