Preface | p. x |
Acknowledgments | p. xii |
Ethics in the World of Business | p. 1 |
Johnson & Johnson: The Tylenol Crisis | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Business Decision Making | p. 3 |
The Ethics of Hardball | p. 11 |
Ethics, Economics, and Law | p. 12 |
Ethics and Management | p. 17 |
Business Ethics and Ethical Theory | p. 22 |
A Sticky Situation | p. 25 |
KPMG and the Tax Shelter Industry | p. 26 |
Welfare, Rights, and Justice | p. 29 |
Beech-Nut's Bogus Apple Juice | p. 29 |
Introduction | p. 30 |
Utilitarianism | p. 31 |
Rights and Justice | p. 36 |
The Market System | p. 43 |
Cost-Benefit Analysis | p. 50 |
Exporting Pollution | p. 55 |
An Auditor's Dilemma | p. 56 |
Equality, Liberty, and Virtue | p. 61 |
Big Brother at Procter & Gamble | p. 61 |
Introduction | p. 63 |
Kantian Ethics | p. 63 |
Rawls's Egalitarian Theory | p. 69 |
Libertarianism | p. 72 |
Virtue Ethics | p. 77 |
Clean Hands in a Dirty Business | p. 82 |
Lavish Pay at Harvard | p. 83 |
Whistle-Blowing | p. 87 |
Time's Persons of the Year | p. 87 |
Introduction | p. 89 |
What is Whistle-Blowing? | p. 90 |
The Justification of Whistle-Blowing | p. 92 |
Is There a Right to Blow the Whistle? | p. 99 |
Developing a Whistle-Blowing Policy | p. 103 |
A Whistle-Blower Accepts a "Deal" | p. 105 |
Better Late than Never? | p. 106 |
Trade Secrets and Conflict of Interest | p. 109 |
The Aggressive Ad Agency | p. 109 |
Introduction | p. 110 |
Trade Secret Protection | p. 111 |
Competitor Intelligence Gathering | p. 120 |
Conflict of Interest | p. 122 |
The Conflict of an Insurance Broker | p. 133 |
Procter & Gamble Goes Dumpster Diving | p. 134 |
Privacy | p. 137 |
Psychological Testing at Dayton Hudson | p. 137 |
Introduction | p. 138 |
Challenges to Privacy | p. 139 |
The Meaning and Value of Privacy | p. 143 |
The Privacy of Employee Records | p. 149 |
Privacy on the Internet | p. 154 |
Information Handling at ChoicePoint | p. 160 |
Plugging Leaks at H.P. | p. 162 |
Discrimination and Affirmative Action | p. 167 |
Race Discrimination at Texaco | p. 167 |
Introduction | p. 169 |
What is Discrimination? | p. 169 |
Sexual Harassment | p. 174 |
Arguments Against Discrimination | p. 178 |
Avoiding Discrimination and Harassment | p. 180 |
Affirmative Action | p. 185 |
Jacksonville Shipyards | p. 197 |
Sex Discrimination at Wal-Mart | p. 198 |
Employment Rights | p. 204 |
The Firing of Robert Greeley | p. 204 |
Introduction | p. 205 |
Unjust Dismissal | p. 205 |
Expression and Participation | p. 217 |
Just Compensation | p. 224 |
Worker Participation at Saturn | p. 233 |
Health Benefits at Wal-Mart | p. 236 |
Occupational Health and Safety | p. 242 |
When Is an Accident a Crime? | p. 242 |
Introduction | p. 243 |
The Scope of the Problem | p. 244 |
Whirlpool Corporation | p. 252 |
The Right to Know About and Refuse Hazardous Work | p. 253 |
Johnson Controls, Inc. | p. 259 |
The Problem of Reproductive Hazards | p. 260 |
Genetic Testing at Burlington Northern | p. 266 |
Marketing, Advertising, and Product Safety | p. 270 |
Selling Hope | p. 270 |
Introduction | p. 272 |
Marketing | p. 273 |
Advertising | p. 282 |
Product Safety | p. 294 |
Volvo's "Bear Foot" Misstep | p. 305 |
The Ford-Firestone Brawl | p. 305 |
Ethics in Finance | p. 312 |
Merrill Lynch and the Nigerian Barge Deal | p. 312 |
Introduction | p. 313 |
Financial Services | p. 314 |
Financial Markets | p. 318 |
Insider Trading | p. 323 |
Hostile Takeovers | p. 327 |
Strong Capital Management Mutual Funds | p. 336 |
Martha Stewart: Inside Trader? | p. 338 |
Oracle's Hostile Bid for PeopleSoft | p. 341 |
Corporate Social Responsibility | p. 347 |
Competing Visions at Malden Mills | p. 347 |
Introduction | p. 349 |
The Debate Over CSR | p. 350 |
The Business Case for CSR | p. 361 |
Implementing CSR | p. 366 |
Starbucks and Fair Trade Coffee | p. 370 |
Timberland and Community Service | p. 373 |
Corporate Governance and Accountability | p. 378 |
Shareholder Rights at Cracker Barrel | p. 378 |
Introduction | p. 380 |
Corporate Governance | p. 380 |
Bath Iron Works | p. 391 |
Corporate Ethics | p. 392 |
Corporate Accountability | p. 400 |
Sears Auto Centers | p. 408 |
Fraud at WorldCom | p. 410 |
International Business Ethics | p. 416 |
Nike in Southeast Asia | p. 416 |
Introduction | p. 417 |
What to Do in Rome | p. 418 |
Wages and Working Conditions | p. 426 |
Foreign Bribery | p. 431 |
Cultural Differences | p. 436 |
H. B. Fuller in Honduras | p. 443 |
Merck and AIDS in South Africa | p. 445 |
Google in China | p. 447 |
Index | p. 453 |
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