Ethics and the conduct of business / John R. Boatright.
By: Boatright, John Raymond.
Material type: BookPublisher: Upper Saddle River, N. J. : Prentice Hall, 2000Edition: 3rd ed.Description: xi, 417 p. : ill. ; 24 cm + pbk.ISBN: 013083145X.Subject(s): Business ethics | Social responsibility of businessDDC classification: 174.4Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 174.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00085520 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This comprehensive single-author text provides balanced and thorough treatment of the most prominent issues of business ethics and the major positions and arguments on these issues. An abundance of cases facilitates both a case study approach and a combined lecture-discussion format. *NEW - Revised chapter on corporate social responsibility - Includes corporate governance and corporate ethics programs *NEW - Updated/expanded coverage - Includes updates on economic espionage and insider trading; an expanded chapter on privacy that covers consumers as well as employees; and foreign bribery added to the chapter on International Business Ethics *NEW - The Model Termination Act - Discussed in the chapter on unjust dismissal *NEW - 6 new cases - e.g., cases on Sears Auto Centers, discrimination at Texaco, and Shell Oil in Nigeria *Ethical theory as a basis for understanding ethical problems in business - Explains theory in easy-to-understand language and applies the theory explicitly to all issues *The legal perspective - Contains a substantial amount of background legal material *An integrated approach to business ethics - Considers the ethical, the economic, and the legal points of vie
Previous ed.: 1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Ethics in the World of Business
- Case 1.1 Johnson & Johnson: The Tylenol Crisis
- Introduction
- Business
- Decision Making
- Case 1.2 The Ethics of Hardball
- Ethics, Economics, and Law Ethics and Management Business Ethics and Ethical Theory
- Case 1.3 A Sticky Situation
- Case 1.4 Argus Incorporated: A Leasing Triangle
- 2 Welfare, Rights, and Justice
- Case 2.1 Beech-Nuts Bogus Apple Juice
- Introduction
- Utilitarianism
- Rights and Justice
- The Market System
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Case 2.2 Exporting Pollution
- Case 2.3 An Auditors Dilemma
- 3 Equality, Liberty, and Virtue
- Case 3.1 Big Brother at Procter & Gamble
- Introduction
- Kantian Ethics
- Rawlss Egalitarian Theory
- Libertarianism
- Virtue Ethics
- Case 3.2 Clean Hands in a Dirty Business
- Case 3.3 Executive Compensation
- 4 Whistle-Blowing
- Case 4.1 Times Persons of the Year
- Introduction
- What is Whistle-Blowing?
- The Justification of Whistle-Blowing
- Is There a Right to Blow the Whistle?
- Developing a Whistle-Blowing Policy
- Case 4.2 A Whistle-Blower Accepts a Deal
- Case 4.3 Better Late than Never?
- 5 Trade Secrets and Conflict of Interest
- Case 5.1 The Aggressive Ad Agency
- Introduction
- Trade Secret Protection
- Competitor Intelligence Gathering
- Conflict of Interest
- Case 5.2 The Conflict of an Insurance Broker
- Case 5.3 Procter & Gamble Goes Dumpster Diving
- 6 Privacy
- Case 6.1 Psychological Testing at Dayton Hudson
- Introduction
- Challenges to Privacy
- The Meaning and Value of Privacy
- The Privacy of Employee Records
- Privacy on the Internet
- Case 6.2 Three Challenges to Employee Privacy
- Case 6.3 Ford Meter Box
- 7 Discrimination and Affirmative Action
- Case 7.1 Discrimination at Texaco
- Introduction
- What is DIS