Business ethics case studies and selected readings /

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Main Author: Jennings, Marianne.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Stamford, CT ; Cengage Learning, 2015.
Physical Description: xxiii, 646 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Edition: Eight edition.
Series: South-Western legal studies in business academic series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ethical theory, philosophical foundations, our reasoning flaws, and types of ethical dilemmas. Defining ethics ; Resolving ethical dilemmas
  • Solving ethical dilemmas and personal introspection. Business and ethics : how do they work together? ; What gets in the way of ethical decisions in business? ; Resolving ethical dilemmas in business
  • Business, stakeholders, social responsibility, and sustainability. Business and society : the tough issues of economics, social responsibility, and business ; Apply social responsibility and stakeholder theory ; Social responsibility and sustainability ; Government as a stakeholder
  • Ethics and company culture. Temptations at work for individual gain and that credo ; The organizational behavior factors ; The psychological and behavior factors ; The structural factors : governance, example, and leadership ; The industry practices and legal factors ; The fear-and-silence factor ; The culture of goodness
  • Ethics and contracts. Contract negotiations : all is fair and conflicting interests ; Promises, performance, and reality
  • Ethics in international business. Conflicts between the corporation's ethics and business practices in foreign countries ; Bribes, grease payments, and "when in Rome..."
  • Ethics, business operations, and rights. Workplace safety ; Workplace loyalty ; Workplace diversity and atmosphere ; Workplace privacy and personal lives ; Workplace confrontation ; Workplace and the environment
  • Ethics and products. Advertising content ; Product safety ; Product sales ; Products and social issues
  • Ethics and competition. Covenants not to compete ; All's fair, or is it? ; Intellectual property and ethics.