Ethical Issues in Business

by Donaldson, Thomas; Werhane, Patricia Hogue

• ISBN13: 9780132906289
• ISBN10: 0132906287
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-12-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

"Keeping pace with recent developments, almost a third of the Eighth Edition is new. Ethical Issues in Business offers a mix of case studies - nine of which are new to this edition - and theoretical articles - ten of which are new to this edition. The articles range from classics in moral theory and economics, to modern commentaries by business executives."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
General Introduction	1
Introduction to Ethical Reasoning	1	(11)
THOMAS DONALDSON
PATRICIA H. WERHANE
Does Business Ethics Make Economic Sense?	12	(9)
AMARTYA SEN
PART ONE General Issues in Ethics	21	(90)
Introduction	21	(4)
Truth Telling	25	(38)
CASE STUDY Italian Tax Mores	25	(2)
ARTHUR L. KELLY
Ethical Duties Towards Others: "Truthfulness"	27	(6)
IMMANUEL KANT
Is Business Bluffing Ethical?	33	(6)
ALBERT CARR
Business Ethics and Politics	39	(4)
JOSEPH BETZ
Promoting Honesty in Negotiation: An Exercise in Practical Ethics	43	(20)
PETER C. CRAMTON
J. GREGORY DEES
Virtues and the Virtuous Manager	63	(48)
CASE STUDY Run, Inc.	63	(18)
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Corporate Roles, Personal Virtues: An Aristotelean Approach to Business Ethics	81	(12)
ROBERT C. SOLOMON
Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work	93	(18)
ROBERT JACKALL
PART TWO Property, Profit, and Justice	111	(115)
Introduction	111	(8)
Traditional Theories of Property and Profit	119	(29)
CASE STUDY Plasma International	119	(1)
T.W. ZIMMERER
P.L. PRESTON
CASE STUDY Dorrence Corporation Trade-offs	120	(8)
HANS WOLF
The Justification of Private Property	128	(5)
JOHN LOCKE
Alienated Labour	133	(5)
KARL MARX
Benefits of the Profit Motive	138	(4)
ADAM SMITH
Wealth	142	(6)
ANDREW CARNEGIE
Property and Profit: Modern Discussions	148	(41)
CASE STUDY Merck & Co, Inc.	148	(6)
THE BUSINESS ENTERPRISE TRUST
The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits	154	(5)
MILTON FRIEDMAN
Can Socially Responsible Firms Survive in a Competitive Environment?	159	(16)
ROBERT H. FRANK
The Moral Muteness of Managers	175	(14)
FREDERICK B. BIRD
JAMES A. WATERS
Justice	189	(37)
CASE STUDY The Oil Rig	189	(1)
JOANNE B. CIULLA
Distributive Justice	190	(10)
JOHN RAWLS
The Entitlement Theory	200	(7)
ROBERT NOZICK
Complex Equality	207	(19)
MICHAEL WALZER
PART THREE Corporations, Persons, and Morality	226	(147)
Introduction	226	(8)
The Moral Responsibility of Corporations	234	(51)
CASE STUDY H.B. Fuller in Honduras	234	(13)
NORMAN E. BOWIE
STEFANIE ANN LENWAY
Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation	247	(10)
R. EDWARD FREEMAN
Business Ethics and Stakeholder Analysis	257	(14)
KENNETH E. GOODPASTER
The "New" U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines: A Wake-Up Call for Corporate America	271	(7)
DAN R. DALTON
MICHAEL B. METZGER
JOHN W. HILL
The Parable of the Sadhu	278	(7)
BOWEN H. McCOY
Employee Rights and Responsibilities	285	(40)
CASE STUDY The Aircraft Brake Scandal	285	(12)
KERMIT VANDIVIER
Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility	297	(7)
SISSELA BOK
Employment at Will and Due Process	304	(10)
PATRICIA H. WERHANE
TARA J. RADIN
In Defense of the Contract at Will	314	(9)
RICHARD A. EPSTEIN
Employability Security	323	(2)
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER
Diversity	325	(48)
CASE STUDY Ellen Moore (A): Living and Working in Bahrain	325	(13)
GAIL ELLEMENT
MARTHA MAZNEVSKI
HENRY W. LANE
CASE STUDY Is This the Right Time to Come Out?	338	(2)
ALISTAIR D. WILLIAMSON
Management Women and the New Facts of Life	340	(11)
FELICE N. SCHWARTZ
White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies	351	(9)
PEGGY MCINTOSH
Sexual Harassment	360	(13)
SUSAN M. DODDS
LUCY FROST
ROBERT PARGETTER
ELIZABETH W. PRIOR
PART FOUR International Business	373	(69)
Introduction	373	(4)
Ethical Relativism	377	(12)
CASE STUDY What Price Safety?	377	(3)
Relativism, Cultural and Moral	380	(5)
NORMAN E. BOWIE
The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights	385	(4)
Business Values away from Home	389	(53)
CASE STUDY Just When Is a "Tip" ONLY Another Means to Insure Promptness?	389	(3)
CASE STUDY Levi Strauss & Co.,: Global Sourcing	392	(26)
LYNN SHARP PAINE
JANE PALLEY KATZ
International Business Ethics and Incipient Capitalism: A Double Standard?	418	(13)
RICHARD T. DE GEORGE
Values in Tension: Ethics away from Home	431	(11)
THOMAS DONALDSON
PART FIVE Contemporary Business Themes	442	(161)
Introduction	442	(4)
Marketing	446	(33)
CASE STUDY Joe Camel: The Cartoon Character Who Sells Cigarettes	446	(2)
MARIANNE M. JENNINGS
Persuasive Advertising, Autonomy, and the Creation of Desire	448	(8)
ROGER CRISP
Ethical Myopia: The Case of "Framing" by Framing	456	(10)
ALAN E. SINGER
STEVEN LYSONSKI
MING SINGER
DAVID HAYES
Marketing to Inner-City Blacks: Power Master and Moral Responsibility	466	(13)
GEORGE G. BRENKERT
Strategy	479	(60)
CASE STUDY Sears Auto Centers	479	(18)
LYNN SHARP PAINE
MICHAEL A. SANTORO
The Leader's New Work: Building Learning Organizations	497	(22)
PETER M. SENGE
The Many Faces of the Corporate Code	519	(7)
LISA H. NEWTON
Managing for Organizational Integrity	526	(13)
LYNN SHARP PAINE
The Environment	539	(64)
CASE STUDY Shell and Nigerian Oil	539	(26)
WILLIAM E. NEWBURRY
THOMAS N. GLADWIN
Scarcity or Abundance?	565	(9)
JULIAN L. SIMON
Holes in the Cornucopia	574	(18)
ERNEST PARTRIDGE
Integrating the Environment into Business Planning	592	(3)
THOMAS M. HELLMAN
Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique	595	(8)
STEVEN KELMAN
Biographical Information	603