Perspectives in Business Ethics

by Hartman, Laura Pincus

• ISBN13: 9780072314052
• ISBN10: 0072314052
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College

Summary

Offers a foundation in ethical thought, followed by a variety of perspectives on difficult ethical dilemmas in both the personal and professional context. Softcover.

Table of Contents

Part One: Ethical Theories and Approaches

Chapter 1: Traditional Theories

1. Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes

2. Of the state of Nature by John Locke

3. Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, by Immanuel Kant

4. The Ten Commandments, Exodus 20: 1-17, The Bible

5. "When Justice Replaces Affection: The Need for Rights," by Jeremy Waldron

6. Utilitarianism, by John Stuart Mill.

7. "Some Problems of Utilitarianism," by Richard A. Posner

8. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, by Ursula K. Le Guin.

9. ¿Aristotelian Ethics,¿ by Camille Atkinson and Candice Fredrick

10. "Distributive Justice," by John Rawls

11. "The Entitlement Theory," by Robert Nozick

12. ¿Closing Argument in Leopold and Loeb case¿ by Clarence Darrow

13. "Whenever I need to do some serious thinking. . . ," Calvin & Hobbes cartoon by Watterson

Chapter 2: Application of Traditional Theories to Modern Business Decision Making

1. "It seems right in theory but does it work in practice?" by Norm Bowie

2. "The Art of War," by Sun Tzu

3. "Some Thoughts on the Meaning of Business Ethics," by Barbara Ley Toffler

4. "America's Persecuted Minority: Big Business," by Ayn Rand

5. "The One-Minute Moralist," by Robert Solomon.

6. "Is Business Bluffing Ethical?" by Albert Z. Carr

7. "Profit: Some Moral Reflections," by Paul Camenisch

8. The Ideas of Ayn Rand, by Ronald Merrill

9. "The Divine Right of Capital: Is Maximizing Returns to Shareholders a Legitimate Mandate?" by Marjorie Kelly

10. "Psychoethics" by Terri Kaye Needle and Martin J. Lecker

11. Pondering Prometheus, Kiren Dosanjh

12. Lynn Sharp Paine, "Venturing Beyond Compliance¿

13. "The Constitution and ServiceMaster's First Company Objective," by The ServiceMaster Company

Chapter 3: Individual Decision Making

1. "Careful Decision Making," Calvin & Hobbes cartoon by Watterson

2. "Quiz Yourself on Business Ethics," by Dawn-Marie Driscoll, W. Michael Hoffman, Edward Petry

3. "Morality: The Basic Rules," by Robert Solomon

4. The "Real-Life" of a Student - Term Papers for Sale, www.schoolsucks.com

5. The Good Samaritan, Luke 10: 30-37, The Bible

6. "Should Ethics Be Taught in College?" by David Thies

7. Obedience to Authority, Stanley Milgram

8. "The Day Has Come . . . to Take an Accounting of My Life"

Chapter 4: Critical Ethical Analysis Based on An Understanding of Perceptual Differences: A Decision-Making Model

1. "A Stakeholder Theory of The Modern Corporation" by R. Edward Freeman

2. "The Parable of the Sadhu" by Bowen H. McCoy

3. "The Rashomon Effect," by Patricia Werhane

4. "A Jury of Her Peers," by Susan Glaspell

5. "Where and Why Did Business Ethicists Go Wrong? The Case of Dow Corning Corporation," by Daryl Koehn

6. "Just because it's legal, Is it ethical?" by Jeffrey Seglin

Chapter 5: Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: One and the Same?

1. "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits" by Milton Friedman

2. "Arguments for and Against Corporate Social Responsibility," by N. Craig Smith

3. ¿The Wealth of Nations¿ by Adam Smith

4. "Maximizing Ethics and Profits," by Patrick Primeaux, S.M.

5. ¿Smith and Friedman on the Pursuit of Self-Interest and Profit,¿ by Harvey James and Farhad Rassekh

6. Dodge v. Ford Motor Co., Hon. J. Ostrander

7. ¿How Business Can Be Good,¿(and Why Being Good is Good for Business), by Jeffrey Seglin

8. "A Hanging," by George Orwell

9. "Reputation Quotient: Surveys Find Many Consumers Hold Companies Responsible for Their Actions."

10. ¿Transformation at Shell: Commerce and Citizenship,¿ by Philip Mirvis

Chapter 6: Corporate Strategy and Decision Making: Accountability

1. "Profitable Ethical Programs" by Jason Lunday

2. "Moral Leadership and Business Ethics," by Al Gini

3. Topic Study: Federal Sentencing Guidelines ¿

a. Federal Sentencing Guidelines, United States Sentencing Commission Data

b. Charts

c. "Hoffman-LaRoche Case: A Sentencing Guidelines Milestone," by Jeffrey M. Kaplan

4. The Prince, by Nicolo Machiavelli

5. "Ethical Dilemmas Regarding Competitive Intelligence," by Thomas Furtado

6. "Airline Travel: Safety at What Price?" by Kenneth Boyer

7. Topic Study: Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster -

a. "Space Shuttle Challenger, Mission 51-L Lauch Decision," by Kurt Hoover and Wallace T. Fowler

b. "Roger Boisjoly on the Space Shuttle Disaster," by Roger Boisjoly

c. Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident

d. ¿Department of Disputation: Blowup,¿ by Malcolm Gladwell

Chapter 7: Corporate Strategy and Decision-Making: Corporate Culture and Reputation Management

1. "Managing Ethics and Legal Compliance: What Works and What Hurts," by Linda Klebe Trevino, Gary R. Weaver, David G. Gibson, and Barbara Ley Toffler

2. "Corporate Codes and Ethics Programs," by Michael Deck

3. ¿Motorola as Ovid: Using Myth to Inspire Ethical Behavior in Business,¿ by Kiren Dosanjh

4. Stonyfield Farm's Mission Statement

5. ¿Do Codes of Conduct Deliver the Goods?¿ by Maureen Quigley

6. The Prince, by Nicolo Machiavelli

Part Two: Ethics in The Business Disciplines

Chapter 8: Ethics and HRM: Values of the Employment Relationship

1. "The Ethics of Employment Law: Whose Power is it Anyway?" by Roger Johns

2. Topic Study: Downsizing

a. "Metaphor of The Surviving Children," from Healing the Wounds by David Noer

b. "The Workers in the Vineyard," Matthew 20: 1-16, The Bible

c. "The Ethics of Downsizing," by Frank Navran

d. "General Motors and the Art of Truth-Telling," by Jason Drucker

e. ¿Pinnacle Brands: A Strike Puts Employees Up to Bat,¿ by Gillian Flynn

f. ¿When Fear of Firing Deters Hiring,¿ by Jeffrey Seglin

3. Topic Study: The Balance of Power

a. ¿Masculine vs. Feminine Styles,¿ Camille Atkinson and Candice Fredrick

b. Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc.

c. Faragher v. City of Boca Raton

d. ¿The Faragher Affirmative Defense: A Checklist,¿ by Kiren Dosanjh

e. ¿Questions and Answers for Small Employers on Employer Liability for Harassment by Supervisors,¿ by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

4. Topic Study: Drug Testing

a. "Issues in Drug Testing for The Private Sector," by George Gray, Darrel Brown

b. "Is Employee Drug Testing The Answer?" by Thomas Gollot, Mark Cohen and Eric Fillman

c. ¿ACS Herbal Tea Company Materials¿

5. Topic Study: Compensation - Comparable Worth

a. "The Question of Wages," by Ruth Rosenbaum, TC

b. American Nurses Association v. State of Illinois

c. "Is Pay Equity Equitable?" by Laura B. Pincus, Nick Mathys

d. "A Free Market Approach to Comparable Worth," by Laura B. Pincus

6. Topic Study: Employee Loyalty - Whistleblowing

a. "Whistleblowing and Trust: Some Lessons from the ADM Scandal," by Daryl Koehn

b. "The Case of George and the Military Aircraft" by M.C. McFarland

7. Topic Study: Discrimination and Affirmative Action - Legislated Ethics?

a. "I'm not supposed to laugh at the way people look." By Pete Mueller

b. "Some Issues in Employment Discrimination on Grounds of Race, Sex, and Age," by Richard Posner

c. In Defense of Non-Diversity, by T.J. Rodgers

d. ¿Diversity Management: A New Organizational Paradigm,¿ by Jaqueline Gilbert, Bette Ann Stead, Jon M. Ivancevich

e. ¿Business Sues ¿Discrimination Testers¿ Posing as Job Applicants,¿ by Tammy Webber

f. "Affirming Affirmative Action," by Jesse L. Jackson

Chapter 9: Ethics and Marketing

1. Topic Study: Marketing Ethics

a. "Marketing Ethics: Some Dimensions of the Challenge" by Paul Camenisch

b. "Benefiting Society and The Bottom Line," by Paul Bloom, Pattie Yu Hussein, Lisa Szykman

c. ¿About the Ethics of Business Competition,¿ by Matti Estola

d. "How Far Should You Go As A Corporate Spy?" by Kirk Hanson

e. "Nestle and the Controversy over the Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes," by Charles McCoy, Shiela Evers, Meinolf Dierkes, Fred Twining

2. Topic Study: Advertising

a. "Is It Ever Right To Lie (Truth in Advertising)," by Robert Solomon

b. "Whether Every Lie is a Mortal Sin," Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas

c. "Lying," by St. Augustine

d. "Got . . . Beer?! Better than milk, new survey shows!" by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

e. ¿Recent Issues in Advertising Law and Ethics: Compendium,¿ compiled by Jef I. Richards (sic)

f. ¿Portrayal of Women in Advertising,¿ Camille Atkinson and Candice Fredrick

3. Topic Study: The Body Shop Controversy ¿

a. "Body Shop Scrutinized," by Joan Bavaria, Eric Becker, Simon Billenness

b. Letter to Business Ethics Magazine subscribers from Gordon Roddick

c. Letter from Marjorie Kelly

d. Materials from The Body Shop Social Statement Website

e. Social Evaluation: The Body Shop International, 1995 by Kirk Hanson

Chapter 10: Ethics in Finance and Accountancy

1. ¿The Ethics of Reward Systems in the Financial Services Industry,¿ by Ronald Duska

2. Topic Study: Ethical Investment

a. ¿What has ¿Ethical Investment¿ to do with Ethics?¿

b. ¿Is there a cost to being socially responsible in investing?¿ by John B. Guerard, Jr.

c. "Integrative Investing: Why Your Values Matter in the World of Money," from The GreenMoney On-Line Journal

d. ¿Cases in Venture Capital Ethics¿ by J. Gregory Dees

3. Topic Study: Ethics and Insider Trading

a. "The Inside Story of an Inside Trader,¿ by Dennis Levine

b. "Ethics, Economics and Insider Trading: Ayn Rand meets the Theory of the Firm," by Jonathan R. Macey

c. ¿Where Should the Line Be Drawn on Insider Trading Ethics?¿ by Yulong MaHuey-Lian Sun

4. Topic Study: Ethics in Accountancy

a. ¿I need everybody to help out in the shipping department today,¿ Dilbert comic strip

b. ¿Earnings Hocus-Pocus: How Companies Come up with the Numbers They Want,¿ by Nanette Byrnes, Richard Melcher and Debra Sparks

c. ¿Where are the Accountants?¿ by Richard Melcher

d. "The Ethical Temperature at Arcticview," by Grant Russell

e. "The Ethical Dilemma at Northlake," by Grant Russell

Chapter 11: Ethical Implications of Technology

1. ¿A Future for Technology and Ethics,¿ by Amanda Mujica, Edward Petry and Dianne Vickery

2. ¿ Technology and Ethics: Privacy in the Workplace,¿ by Laura P. Hartman

3. "In Cyberspace, Everyone Can Hear You Scream," by Daniel Levine

4. "Elements of a Successful E-Mail Policy" by Gerard Panero

5. "The Ethical and Legal Quandary of Email Privacy" by Janice Sipior and Burke Ward

6. "Electronic Mail and Panoptic Power in the Workplace," by Richard A. Spinello

7. "Compliance Programs, E-Mail and the Internet," by Jeffrey M. Kaplan

8. ¿Non-profits Still Lack Technology,¿ by T.J. DeGroat

9. ¿Genetically Modified Foods: Controversy Underscores Link between Consumer Perception and Corporate Reputation,¿ by Carol Stavraka

Part Three: Ethics in The Natural and Global Environments

Chapter 12: Ethics and the Earth¿s Environment

1. Topic Study: Public Relations and Corporate Environmentalism

a. "Sustainable PR," by David Shenk

b. "Garnet Hill Honored for Recycling Efforts," by Garnet Hill

c. "Does Q=E? The Quality Equation" and ¿Choosing Organic,¿ by Patagonia, Inc.

2. Topic Study: Corporate Environmental Responsibility

a. ¿Business and Environmental Ethics," by W. Michael Hoffman

b. "Forests of the North Coast: The Owls, The Trees and The Conflicts," by Lisa Newton, Catherine Dillingham

c. "Environment, Harvey S. James

Chapter 13: Ethics in Global Business

1. Topic Study: Ethical Principles Governing Global Business

a. Model Business Principles, U.S. Dept. of Commerce

b. Caux Principles, by The Caux Round Table

c. "International Ethics Standards for Business: NAFTA, Caux Principles and U.S. Corporate Codes of Ethics," by Patricia Carlson, Mark Blodgett

d. "You Heartless Air Pirates!" Doonesbury

2. Topic Study: Multicultural Perspective

a. "Fundamental International Rights," by Thoms Donaldson

b. ¿Business Ethics in the Middle East,¿ by Dove Israeli

c. "Major Issues of Business Ethics in Mainland China" by Gao Guoxi

d. "Ethics of Hope v. Ethics of Disillusionment" by Tadeux Borkowski

3. Topic Study: Values in Confict: U.S. Standards vs. Others?

a. "Levi Strauss & Co. and China," by Timothy Perkins, Colleen O'Connell, Carin Orosco, Mark Rickey, Matthew Scoble

b. "The Denim Revolution: Levi Strauss & Co. Adopts a Code of Conduct,¿ by Deborah Leipziger

c. "Re-Education through Labor," by David Shenk

d. "Tee-Shirts and Tears: Third World Suppliers to First World Markets," by Laura B. Pincus

e. International Labour Organization Photos of Laborors

f. List of Fair Labor Fashion Trendsetters, U.S. Dept. of Labor

g. "Help End Sweatshop Conditions for American Workers" Robert Reich Poster

h. "A Presidential Dilemma: America Go Global or America Stay Home?" by Ian Spaulding, Lori McDonough, Lawrence Ponemon