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.
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Part I: ETHICAL THEORY, PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS, OUR REASONING FLAWS, AND TYPES OF ETHICAL DILEMMAS.
1A. Defining Ethics.
You, Your Values, and a Credo. What Did You Do in the Past Year That Bothered You? How That Question Can Change Lives and Cultures. What Are Ethics? From Line-Cutting to Uber Drivers 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. “They Made Me Do It”: Following Orders and Legalities: Volkswagen and the Fake Emissions Test. “The Slippery Slope”: University of North Carolina and How Do I Know When an Ethical Lapse Begins? Blue Bunny Ice Cream and Listeria.
B. Resolving Ethical Dilemmas and Personal Introspection.
Some Simple Tests for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas. Some Steps for Analyzing Ethical Dilemmas. On Plagiarism. The Little Teacher Who Could: Piper, Kansas, and Term Papers. The Car Pool Lane: Defining Car Pool. Puffing Your Résumé: Truth or Dare. Dad, the Actuary, and the Stats Class. Wi-Fi Piggybacking and the Tragedy of the Commons. Cheating: Hows, Whys, and Whats. Speeding: Hows, Whys, and Whats. The Pack of Gum. Getting Out From Under Students Loans: Legal? Ethical?
Part II: BUSINESS AND ITS ETHICAL DILEMMAS.
2A. Business and Ethics: How They Work Together.
What’s Different about Business Ethics? Peter Drucker and the Ethics of Responsibility. Albert Carr and Business Bluffing.
2B. What Gets in the Way of Ethical Decisions in Business?
How Leaders Lose Their Way: The Bathsheba Syndrome and What Price Hubris? Moral Relativism and the Either/or Conundrum. P = ƒ(x) Probabilities and Ethical Outcome: Peanut Corporation of America. BP and the Deepwater Horizon Explosion: Safety First? Valeant: The Company with a New Pharmaceutical Model and Different Accounting.
C. Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Business. Framing Issues Carefully: A Structured Approach for Solving Ethical Dilemmas and Trying Out Your Ethical Skills on An Example. What Was Up with Wall Street? The Goldman Standard and Shades of Gray. Penn State: Framing Ethical Issues. Deflategate and Spygate: The New England Patriots. Damaging Reviews on the Internet: The Reality and Harm.
Part III: BUSINESS, STAKEHOLDERS, 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 Look at Stakeholder Theory. Business with a Soul: A Reexamination of What Counts in Business Ethics. Appeasing Stakeholders with Public Relations. Conscious Capitalism: Creating a New Paradigm for Business. Marjorie Kelly and the Divine Right of Capital. B. Applying Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory. Turing Pharmaceutical and the 4,835% Price Increase on a Life-Saving Drug. Walmart: The $15 Minimum Wage and Losses. Chipotle: Buying Local and Health Risks. Guns, Safety, Liability, and Social Responsibility. The Craigslist Connections: Facilitating Crime. Planned Parenthood Backlash at Companies and Charities. The Regulatory Cycle. Fannie, Freddie, Wall Street, Main Street, and the Subprime Mortgage Market: Of Moral Hazards. Ice-T, the Body Count Album, and Shareholder Uprisings. Athletes and Doping: Costs, Consequences, and Profits. Back Treatments and Meningitis in an Under-the-Radar Industry. CVS Pulls Cigarettes From Its Stores. Ashley Madison: The Affair Website. C. Social Responsibility and Sustainability. Biofuels and Food Shortages in Guatemala. The Dictator’s Wife in Louboutin Shoes Featured in Vogue Magazine. Herman Miller and Its Rain Forest Chairs. VW: Falsified Emissions. Tesla: Electric Cars and Funding. D. Government as a Stakeholder. Solyndra: Bankruptcy of Solar Resources. Stanford University and Government Payment for Research. Prosecutorial Misconduct: Ends Justifying Means?
Part IV: ETHICS AND COMPANY CULTURE.
A. Temptation at Work for Individual Gain and That Credo. The Movin
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ISBN
9781305972544
Publisert
2017-09-19
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9. utgave
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Cengage Learning, Inc
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1090 gr
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25 mm
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203 mm
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251 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
416
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