The best-selling text of its kind on the market, BUSINESS ETHICS: CASE STUDIES AND SELECTED READINGS, 7e, International Edition gets behind the decision-making process of business leaders today to illustrate why good leaders often make questionable decisions. This fascinating collection exposes common themes in less-than-ethical decision making, and shows why leaders make ethical compromises in business that they would not make in their personal lives. A combination of short and long cases, readings, hypothetical situations, and current ethical dilemmas, BUSINESS ETHICS: CASE STUDIES AND SELECTED READINGS, International Edition provides students with a stimulating and thorough basis for evaluating business ethics, and encourages stronger values in future business leaders. INDICE: Unit 1: ETHICAL THEORY, PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS, AND TYPES OF ETHICAL DILEMMAS. A. Defining Ethics. You, Your Values, and a Credo. The Parableof the Sadhu. What Are Ethics? From Line-Cutting to Kant. The Types of Ethical Dilemmas: From Truth to Honesty to Conflicts. On Rationalizing and Labeling:The Things We Do That Make Us Uncomfortable, But We Do Them Anyway. The Slippery Slope, the Blurred Lines, and How We Never Do Just One Thing. Hank Greenberg and AIG. B. Resolving Ethical Dilemmas. Some Simple Tests for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas. Steps for Analyzing Ethical Dilemmas. The Little School TeacherThat Could: Piper Kansas and Term Papers. The Movie Ticket. Puffing Your Rèsumè. Dad, the Actuary, and Stats Class. On Plagiarism. Wi-Fi Piggybacking. The Ethics officer and First Class for TSA. Speeding: On the Roadways and in Life.The Pack of Gum. Unit II: SOLVING BUSINESS ETHICAL DILEMMAS. A. Business and Ethics: How Do They Work Together? What's Different about Business Ethics? TheEthics of Responsibility. Is Business Bluffing Ethical? B. What Gets in the Way of Ethical Decisions in Business? How Leaders Lose Their Way: What Price Hubris? Moral Relativism and the Either/Or Conundrum. P=ƒ(x) The Probability of an Ethical Outcome is a Function of the Amount of Money Involved: Pressure. Martha Stewart: Not Such a Good Thing. On Leaving to Spend More Time. C. Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Business. The Areas of Ethical Challenges in Business. A Structured Approach for Solving Ethical Dilemmas and Trying Out Your Skills on Some Business Cases. Goldman Sachs: Am I My Clients' Keeper? What Happens in Boulder Stays in Boulder: Cell Phone Alibis. Travel Expenses: A Chance for Extra Income. Do Cheaters Prosper? The Rigged Election. West Virginia University and the Governor's Daughter. UNIT III: BUSINESS, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY,and SUSTAINABILITY. A. Business and Society: The Tough Issues of Economics, Social Responsibility, and Business. The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits. A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation. Business with a Soul: A Re-Examination of What Counts in Business Ethics. Appeasing Stakeholders with Public Relations. Michael Novak on the Corporation. MarjorieKelly: The Divine Right of Capital. Schools of Thought on Social Responsibility. Applying Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory: Moral Ecology. Whole Foods, John Mackey, and Health Care Debates. Ice-T, the Body Count Album, Shareholder Uprisings, Lil Wayne, and the Rolling Stones. Baseball and Steroids.Michael Vick, Dogs, Rush Limbaugh, and the NFL. Dayton-Hudson and its Contributions to Planned Parenthood. Business and the Environment. C. Business and the Environment. The New Environmentalism. Herman Miller and its Rain Forest Chairs. Exxon and Alaska. The Great Disposable Diaper Debate. UNIT IV: ETHICS ANDORGANIZATIONAL, INDUSTRY, AND SOCIAL CULTURE. A. Temptation at Work for Individuals: Gain and That Credo. The Moving Line. Not All Employees Are Equal WhenIt Comes to Moral Development. B. The Organizational Behavior Factors. Why Corporations Can't Control Chicanery. The Effects of Compensation Systems: Incentives, Bonuses, Pay and Ethics. The Subprime Saga: Bear Stearns, Lehman, Merrill, and CDOs. HealthSouth: "You're My Guy. Get Those Numbers!" There Is No Such Thing as a Rogue Trader: Jett and Kidder, Leeson and Barings, Kerviel and Sociètè General: Compensation-Fueled Dishonesty. Royal Dutch and the Reserves. Stock Options, Backdating, and Disclosure Options: What Happened Here? FINOVA and the Loan Write-Off. C. The Structural Factors: Governance, Example, and Leadership. A Primer on Sarbanes-Oxley. Bank of America, the Takeover, and the Board. Dennis Kozlowski: The $6,000 Shower Curtain and the Board's Deference. Bausch & Lomb and Krispy Kreme: Channel Stuffing and Cannibalism. Enron: The CFO, Conflicts, and Cooking the Books with Natural Gas and Electricity. Arthur Andersen: A Fallen Giant. The New Shareholder: Taking Over. D. The Industry Practices and Legal Factors. If it's legal; it's ethical; and besides, everyone does it. A Primer on Accounting Issues, and Ethics and Earnings Management. The Ethics of Bankruptcy. The Ethics of Walking Away From Under-Water Mortgages. The Fear-and-Silence Factors. The Options for Whistleblowers. Beech-Nut and theNo-Apple-Juice Apple Juice. NASA and the Space Shuttle Booster Rockets. Hallmark Westland Meat Company and the Cattle Standers. Getting Information from Employees Who Know to those who Can and Will respond. WorldCom: The Little Company That Couldn't After All. Bernie Madoff: Just Stay Away from the 17th Floor.UNIT V: ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS. A. Conflicts Between the Corporation's Ethics and Business Practices in Foreign Countries. Why an International Code of Ethics Would Be Good for Business. Chiquita Banana and Mercenary Protection. Transnational Shipping and the Pirates. AES, IKEA, and PwC in Russia. Product Dumping. On Sweatshops, Nike, and Kathie Lee. Bhopal: When Safety Standards Differ. When Products Translate Differently. Google, Yahoo, and Human Rights in China. B. Bribes, Grease Payments, and When in Rome.... A Primer on the FCPA. Siemens and Bribery, Everywhere. The Salt Lake City Olympics. UNIT VI: ETHICS, BUSINESS OPERATIONS, AND RIGHTS. A. Workplace Safety. BP: Pipeline and Refinery Safety. Sleeping on the Job and on the Way Home. Cintas and OSHA. B. Workplace Loyalty. Aaron Feuerstein and Malden Mills. Plant Closings, Downsizings, Company Closings, Government Takeovers, Bankruptcies, and Pensions. C. Workplace Conflicts. The Wealthy J.C. Penney Buyer. The Trading Desk, Perks, and"Dwarf Tossing." Case Docs, Pharmas, Medical Journals, Funded Research, and Pizza. The Analyst Who Needed a Preschool. Julie Roehm: The Wal-Mart Buyer withExpensive Tastes. D. Workplace Diversi
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