Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Martin E. Sandbu is the economics editorial writer for The Financial Times. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School, where he previously taught the main business ethics course in the undergraduate curriculum for several years. He has appeared on the BBC World Service, National Public Radio morning edition, and CNBC among other broadcast interviews.
In his academic career, Dr. Sandbu has worked on questions at the intersection between economics, politics and philosophy and published across all three fields. He holds degrees in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford University, and in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University. His doctoral thesis, “Explorations in Process-Dependent Preference Theory,” was published in top academic field journals in economics and philosophy. His academic writings have analyzed topics including business ethics, distributive justice, preference theory, collective responsibility, deliberative democracy, and the political economy of development.
Dr. Sandbu’s interests range beyond the theoretical. His academic research has informed policy advice, including on natural resource governance in developing countries. He participates in the global policy debate through his contributions to the Financial Times’ editorial column and through opinion pieces in his own name in the FT and other newspapers. He has been invited to give numerous lectures, presentations, and panel appearances for the world’s top universities, national governments, intergovernmental organizations, top academic professional associations, and civil society groups.
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This new first edition introduces business students, scholars, and practitioners to moral reasoning as it naturally arises in business decisions.
It works through theories of moral philosophy as active analyses of practical problems rather than finished products, thus seeing moral reasoning as something the readers must engage in as opposed to just learn about.
Through examples and questions that show how one cannot make informed business decisions if one cannot think philosophically, the author identifies, develops, and critically appraises the main approaches in moral philosophy as natural intellectual responses to challenges that business people confront.
Note: MyEthicsKit does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyEthicsKit, please visit www.Myethicskit.com or you can purchase a valuepack of the text + MyEthicsKit (9780205029778)
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction
The Purpose of This Book
Chapter 1: The Business of Ethics: Reasoning about Right And Wrong
Chapter 2: Two Extreme Views: Managing for Shareholders Or
Stakeholders?
Chapter 3: Doing One’s Job Well: The Ethics of Social Roles
Chapter 4: Roles and Conventions: Confronting Cultural Conflicts
Chapter 5: Ethics as Efficiency: Making Everyone Better Off
Chapter 6: Is Greed Good? Advancing Society through Selfish Action
Chapter 7: Consequentialist Complications: Sacrificing One for The
Many
Chapter 8: Self-Evident Truths? Imagining a World without Rights
Chapter 9: The Case for Rights: Justifying Right-Claims
Chapter 10: Ethics as Equal Freedom: Respecting Each Person’s Dignity
Chapter 11: Fair Shares: Dividing the Value Added
Chapter 12: Just Business: Fulfilling Social Contracts
Appendix
Suggestions for Supplementary Material
PERSONALIZE LEARNING
· MyEthicsKit for Just Business, helping instructors bring the world into their classroom and take their classroom into the world. This is a groundbreaking online tool that features online video casebooks, interactive simulations where students roll play, newsfeeds that allow students to apply the core concepts of the course to breaking events in the business world, a primary source library with all of the additional readings that you might assign and an assessment/study plan program that allows students to gauge their level of understanding of the core concepts of the course.
· The Pearson eText lets students access their textbook anytime, anywhere, and any way they want—including listening online or downloading to iPad.
· A personalized study plan for each student promotes better critical-thinking skills, and helps students succeed in the course and beyond.
· Assessment tied to every video, application, and chapter enables both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. With results feeding into a powerful gradebook, the assessment program helps instructors identify student challenges early—and find the best resources with which to help students.
· Class Prep collects the very best class presentation resources in one convenient online destination, so instructors can keep students engaged throughout every class.
IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING
- Visits the main mileposts of western moral canon, but goes further and shows the reason why these theories are part of the canon. The book demonstrates that the great contributions of western moral philosophy are positions a reflective person may naturally arrive at when reasoning in good faith about concrete moral problems.
- Focuses on the basic arguments in moral philosophy that are most relevant to business practice. The book covers;
o whether reasoned argument about ethics is possible at all (Chapters 1 and 2);
o whether moral questions can be satisfactorily answered with reference to the virtues, social roles, and cultural conventions (Chapters 3 and 4);
o the claim that consequences–in particular for people’s well-being–are all that matter morally (Chapters 5 to 7);
o the disputed need for rights and how to justify and specify them (Chapters 8 to 12 , which include discussions of distributive justice and social contract theory).
ENGAGE STUDENTS
- Engages the reader in the process of moral reasoning and not merely its product. The book focuses on how philosophical ideas are justified and developed rather than just presenting and applying them.
- Each chapter ends with a “Summary of the argument in this chapter”, which gives a roadmap to the book as well as enables instructors to judge easily whether to use the book as a whole or excerpt individual parts.
- An appendix gives further references and suggestions for supplementary material to match the text.
SUPPORT INSTRUCTORS
· Instructor’s Manual with Tests (0205697771): For each chapter in the text, this resource provides a detailed outline, list of objectives, discussion questions, and suggested readings. In addition, test questions in multiple-choice, true/ false, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer formats are available for each chapter; the answers are page-referenced to the text. For easy access, this manual is available within the instructor section of MyEthicsKit for Just Business: Arguments in Business Ethics, or at www.pearsonhighered.com/irc.
· PowerPoint Presentation Slides for Just Business: Arguments in Business Ethics (0205009263): These PowerPoint slides help you convey ethical principles in a clear and engaging way. For easy access, they are available within the instructor section of MyEthicsKit for Just Business: Arguments in Business Ethics, or at www.pearsonhighered.com/irc.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Martin E. Sandbu is the economics editorial writer for The Financial Times. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School, where he previously taught the main business ethics course in the undergraduate curriculum for several years. He has appeared on the BBC World Service, National Public Radio morning edition, and CNBC among other broadcast interviews.
In his academic career, Dr. Sandbu has worked on questions at the intersection between economics, politics and philosophy and published across all three fields. He holds degrees in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford University, and in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University. His doctoral thesis, “Explorations in Process-Dependent Preference Theory,” was published in top academic field journals in economics and philosophy. His academic writings have analyzed topics including business ethics, distributive justice, preference theory, collective responsibility, deliberative democracy, and the political economy of development.
Dr. Sandbu’s interests range beyond the theoretical. His academic research has informed policy advice, including on natural resource governance in developing countries. He participates in the global policy debate through his contributions to the Financial Times’ editorial column and through opinion pieces in his own name in the FT and other newspapers. He has been invited to give numerous lectures, presentations, and panel appearances for the world’s top universities, national governments, intergovernmental organizations, top academic professional associations, and civil society groups.