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

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