Business Ethics with CD-ROM

by DeGeorge, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780130991638
• ISBN10: 0130991635
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback w/CD
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

This interesting, comprehensive book about business ethics argues that ethics is the ls"gluers" that makes successful business possible. It allows the reader to see the whole range of issues in business ethics rather than just selected topics. Its focus on internationalization and globalization is important, as it relates facts about this dynamic, growing aspect of corporate business.This book not only covers ethics, it also includes such topics as: management, production, marketing, finance, workersrs" rights, and environmental issues; it enables readers to see how all of the issues presented are interrelated.An excellent resource and reference work for international corporate employees, marketing administrators, and human resource managers and employees.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction
Ethics and Business	3	(30)
Horatio Alger and Stock Options	3	(2)
The Myth of Amoral Business	5	(3)
The American Business Value System	8	(3)
The Relation of Business and Morality	11	(6)
Business Ethics and Ethics	17	(8)
The Case of the Collapsed Mine	25	(3)
Study Questions	28	(5)
Moral Reasoning in Business
Conventional Morality and Ethical Relativism	33	(22)
Purchasing Abroad: A Case Study	33	(1)
The Levels of Moral Development	34	(3)
Subjective and Objective Morality	37	(2)
Descriptive Relativism	39	(2)
Normative Ethical Relativism	41	(4)
Moral Absolutism	45	(1)
Moral Pluralism	46	(1)
Pluralism and American Business	47	(1)
Pluralism and International Business	48	(1)
Approaches to Ethical Theory	49	(4)
Study Questions	53	(2)
Utility and Utilitarianism	55	(21)
An Airplane Manufacturing Case	55	(1)
Utilitarianism	55	(5)
Act and Rule Utilitarianism	60	(3)
Objections to Utilitarianism	63	(2)
Utilitarianism and Justice	65	(2)
Applying Utilitarianism	67	(3)
Utilitarianism and Bribery	70	(4)
Study Questions	74	(2)
Moral Duty, Rights, and Justice	76	(29)
The Johnson Controls Case	76	(1)
Deontological Approaches to Ethics	77	(1)
Judeo-Christian Morality	78	(2)
Reason, Duty, and the Moral Law	80	(6)
Application of the Moral Law	86	(3)
Imperfect Duties, Special Obligations, and Moral Ideals	89	(5)
Rights and Justice	94	(9)
Study Questions	103	(2)
Virtue, Moral Responsibility, and Moral Reasoning	105	(24)
The Case of Dora and Joe	105	(1)
Virtue	106	(4)
The Love Canal Case	110	(1)
Moral Responsibility	111	(2)
Excusing Conditions	113	(4)
Liability and Accountability	117	(2)
Agent and Role Moral Responsibility	119	(2)
Applying Moral Reasoning	121	(5)
Study Questions	126	(3)
Moral Issues in Business
Justice and Economic Systems	129	(24)
The Case of the Two Slaveholders	129	(1)
Moral Evaluation of Economic Systems	130	(4)
Moral Evaluation of Contemporary Systems	134	(2)
Economic Models and Games	136	(1)
A Capitalist Model	137	(5)
Capitalism and Government	142	(4)
A Socialist Model	146	(2)
Comparison of Models and Systems	148	(1)
Economic Systems and Justice	149	(2)
Study Questions	151	(2)
American Capitalism: Moral or Immoral?	153	(27)
The Case of Bill Gates	153	(2)
The American Economic System	155	(2)
Relation of the American Government to the American Economic System	157	(4)
The Marxist Critique	161	(5)
Non-Marxist Moral Critiques of American Capitalism	166	(3)
The Moral Defense of the American Free-Enterprise System	169	(4)
Non-Socialist Alternatives to Contemporary American Capitalism	173	(5)
Study Questions	178	(2)
Corporations and Morality	180	(31)
The Case of Malden Mills	180	(3)
The Moral Status of Corporations and Formal Organizations	183	(5)
Concept of the Corporation: Shareholder versus Stakeholder	188	(3)
Moral Responsibility Within the Corporation	191	(6)
Morality and the Social Audit	197	(9)
Corporate Codes	206	(1)
Corporate Culture and Moral Firms	207	(2)
Study Questions	209	(2)
Corporate Governance, Accounting, Disclosure and Insider Trading	211	(34)
The Enron Case	211	(3)
Corporate Governance	214	(5)
Accounting	219	(6)
Corporate Disclosure	225	(8)
Insider Trading	233	(10)
Study Questions	243	(2)
Finance, Restructuring, and Investing	245	(30)
Google and IPOs	245	(2)
Finance and Banking	247	(6)
Corporate Takeovers and Restructuring	253	(12)
Ethical Investing	265	(8)
Study Questions	273	(2)
Safety, Risk, and Environmental Protection	275	(23)
The McDonald's Polystyrene Case	275	(2)
Corporations, Products, and Services	277	(1)
Do No Harm	278	(1)
Safety and Acceptable Risk	279	(3)
Product Safety and Corporate Liability	282	(2)
Strict Liability	284	(2)
Production Safety	286	(2)
Environmental Harm	288	(2)
Pollution and Its Control	290	(6)
Study Questions	296	(2)
Whistle Blowing	298	(25)
The Ford Pinto Case	298	(1)
Blowing the Whistle	299	(1)
Kinds of Whistle Blowing	300	(4)
Whistle Blowing as Morally Prohibited	304	(3)
Whistle Blowing as Morally Permitted	307	(5)
Whistle Blowing as Morally Required	312	(3)
Internal Whistle Blowing	315	(4)
Precluding the Need for Whistle Blowing	319	(2)
Study Questions	321	(2)
Marketing, Truth, and Advertising	323	(30)
The May D&F Case	323	(1)
The Nestle Infant Milk Formula Case	324	(1)
Marketing	325	(11)
Advertising	336	(2)
Truth and Advertising	338	(4)
Manipulation and Coercion	342	(3)
Paternalism and Advertising	345	(2)
Prevention of Advertising	347	(1)
Allocation of Moral Responsibility in Advertising	348	(3)
Study Questions	351	(2)
Workers' Rights: Employment, Wages, and Unions	353	(34)
The Air Traffic Controllers Case	353	(2)
Employment-at-Will	355	(2)
The Right to Employment	357	(6)
The Right to a Just Wage	363	(6)
Comparable Worth	369	(2)
Executive Compensation	371	(4)
The Right to Organize: Unions	375	(3)
The Right to Strike	378	(6)
Study Questions	384	(3)
Workers' Rights and Duties Within a Firm	387	(30)
Case Studies: Drug Testing and the Right to Privacy	387	(4)
The Rights of Employees Within a Firm	391	(1)
Rights in Hiring, Promotion, and Firing	392	(4)
Employee Civil Rights and Equal Treatment	396	(3)
Privacy, Polygraphs, and Drugs	399	(7)
Quality of Work Life	406	(4)
Employee Duties	410	(1)
Worker Loyalty and Obedience	411	(4)
Study Questions	415	(2)
Discrimination, Affirmative Action, and Reverse Discrimination	417	(30)
Three Affirmative Action Cases	417	(3)
Discrimination	420	(6)
Changing Social Structures	426	(2)
Equal Employment Opportunity	428	(2)
Affirmative Action	430	(4)
Reverse Discrimination	434	(2)
Balanced or Preferential Hiring	436	(5)
Two Cases: Weber and Stotts	441	(1)
The Weber Case	442	(2)
The Stotts Case	444	(1)
Study Questions	445	(2)
The Information Age: Property and New Technologies	447	(31)
Two Intellectual Property Cases	447	(4)
Intellectual Property	451	(11)
Industrial Espionage	462	(1)
Property: Information and Software	463	(13)
Study Questions	476	(2)
Information, Computers, the Internet and Business	478	(31)
The Electronic Privacy at ABC Control Case	478	(2)
Business and Computers	480	(1)
Computer Crime	480	(7)
Computers and Corporate Responsibility	487	(3)
Computers and Privacy	490	(10)
The Changing Nature of Work	500	(4)
Study Questions	504	(5)
Moral Issues in International Business
The International Business System, Multinationals, and Globalization	509	(37)
The WTO, Cancun and Agriculture: A Case Study	509	(2)
Morality and the International Economic System	511	(3)
Multinational Corporations and Ethics	514	(7)
Ethical Guidelines for Multinational Operations	521	(2)
Multinationals and Human Rights	523	(2)
The Transfer of Dangerous Industries to Underdeveloped Countries	525	(7)
International Codes	532	(5)
The Globalization of Business	537	(4)
American Outsourcing and International Business	541	(2)
Study Questions	543	(3)
Corrupt Contexts and International Business	546	(34)
Nike: A Case Study	546	(2)
The Case of General Motors and Apartheid	548	(2)
U.S. Multinationals in South Africa	550	(3)
The Lessons of Business in South Africa	553	(1)
Bribery and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act	554	(2)
International Business in Unsettled Contexts	556	(6)
International Industrial Espionage, Discrimination, and Questionable Products	562	(4)
Operating in Destabilized Environments	566	(3)
Child Labor and Sweatshops	569	(4)
International Business in Different Cultures: Japan	573	(1)
Cross-Cultural Judgments, Negotiation, and International Justice	574	(4)
Study Questions	578	(2)
Global Issues and International Obligations	580	(33)
The Case of the United States and the Kyoto Protocol	580	(2)
The Case of Merck and Costa Rica	582	(1)
Global Issues	583	(1)
Famine, Malnutrition, and Moral Obligation	584	(8)
Property and Allocation of the World's Resources	592	(8)
Global Common Goods	600	(1)
Oil and the Depletion of Natural Resources	601	(7)
Study Questions	608	(5)
Conclusion
The New Moral Imperative for Business	613	(16)
IBM and the End of an Era: A Case Study	613	(2)
The Changing Business Mandate	615	(5)
The Role of Government	620	(2)
Corporate Democracy and the New Entrepreneur	622	(2)
Building a Good Society	624	(2)
Study Questions	626	(3)
Index	629