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About the Authors | p. vi |
Preface | p. vii |
Ethics and Business | p. 1 |
Introduction: Making the Case for Business Ethics | p. 3 |
Business Ethics as Ethical Decision Making | p. 6 |
Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility | p. 8 |
Ethics and the Law | p. 13 |
Ethics as Practical Reason | p. 16 |
Readings | p. 19 |
Value Shift | p. 19 |
An Ethical Hero or a Failed Businessman? The Malden Mills Case Revisited | p. 24 |
Do You Need an Ethics Officer? | p. 31 |
Ethical Decision Making: Personal and Professional Contexts | p. 35 |
Introduction | p. 37 |
A Decision-Making Process for Ethics | p. 37 |
When Ethical Decision Making Goes Wrong: Why Do "Good" People Engage in "Bad" Acts? | p. 42 |
Ethical Decision Making in Managerial Roles | p. 46 |
Readings | p. 49 |
Abandoning the "Just School" Myth | p. 49 |
The Parable of the Sadhu | p. 52 |
When Good People Do Bad Things at Work | p. 58 |
Philosophical Ethics and Business | p. 63 |
Introduction: Ethical Theories and Traditions | p. 65 |
Utilitarianism: Making Decisions Based on Ethical Consequences | p. 67 |
Problems of Utilitarian Ethics | p. 72 |
Deontology: Making Decisions Based on Ethical Principles | p. 74 |
Sources of Rules | p. 75 |
Moral Rights and Duties | p. 77 |
Distinguishing between Moral Rights and Legal Rights | p. 80 |
Social Justice: Rawlsian Justice as Fairness | p. 80 |
Virtue Ethics: Making Decisions Based on Integrity and Character | p. 83 |
A Decision-Making Model for Business Ethics Revisited | p. 86 |
Readings | p. 90 |
The Justification of Human Rights | p. 90 |
Do CEOs Get Paid Too Much? | p. 95 |
Caux Principles for Business | p. 105 |
The Corporate Culture-Impact and Implications | p. 111 |
What Is Corporate Culture? | p. 113 |
Culture and Ethics | p. 116 |
Compliance and Value-Based Cultures | p. 118 |
Ethical Leadership and Corporate Culture | p. 120 |
Effective Leadership and Ethical Leadership | p. 121 |
Building a Values-Based Corporate Culture | p. 123 |
Mission Statements, Codes of Conduct, and Statements of Values | p. 123 |
Ethics Hotlines, Ombudsmen, and Integrating Ethical Culture | p. 127 |
Assessing and Monitoring the Corporate Culture: Audits | p. 130 |
Mandating and Enforcing Culture: The Federal Sentencing Guidelines | p. 132 |
Readings | p. 138 |
Good Business Sometimes Means the Customer Doesn't Come First | p. 138 |
Assessment and Plan for Organizational Culture Change at NASA | p. 143 |
Inside Arthur Andersen | p. 145 |
Corporate Social Responsibility | p. 147 |
Introduction | p. 149 |
Is There a Social Responsibility of Business? If So, What Is Its Orgin | p. 149 |
Is There a Social Responsibility of Business? If So, Responsibility to Whom? | p. 152 |
Is There a Social Responsibility of Business? If So, What Is the Extent of the Responsibility? | p. 153 |
Ethics and Social Responsibility | p. 154 |
Exploring Enlightened Self-Interest: Motivation for CSR | p. 157 |
Does the "Enlightened Self-Interest" Model Work? Does "Good Ethics" Mean "Good Business"? | p. 161 |
Readings | p. 169 |
Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business: A Reason Debate Featuring Milton Friedman, Whole Foods' John Mackey, and Cypress Semiconductor's T. J. Rodgers | p. 169 |
Why Should Corporate Responsibility Be Altruistic? | p. 178 |
Does It Pay to Be Good? | p. 180 |
Ethical Decision Making: Employer Responsibilities and Employee Rights | p. 187 |
Introduction | p. 189 |
Ethical Issues in the Workplace: The Current Environment | p. 190 |
Defining the Parameters of the Employment Relationship | p. 192 |
Due Process and Just Cause | p. 192 |
Downsizing | p. 195 |
Health and Safety | p. 197 |
Global Applications: The Global Workforce and Global Challenges | p. 205 |
The Case of Child Labor | p. 207 |
Rights and Responsibilities in Conflict: Discrimination, Diversity, and Affirmative Action | p. 208 |
Discrimination | p. 210 |
Diversity | p. 212 |
Affirmative Action | p. 214 |
Readings | p. 224 |
Worker Rights and Low Wage Industrialization: How to Avoid Sweatshops | p. 225 |
Women in the Workplace: Freedom of Choice or Freedom from Choice? | p. 235 |
Employment-at-Will, Employee Rights, and Future Directions for Employment | p. 240 |
Ethical Decision Making: Technology and Privacy in the Workplace | p. 253 |
Introduction | p. 255 |
The Right to Privacy | p. 256 |
Defining Privacy | p. 257 |
Ethical Sources of a Right to Privacy | p. 257 |
Legal Sources of a Right to Privacy | p. 259 |
Linking the Value of Privacy to the Ethical Implications of Technology | p. 263 |
Information and Privacy | p. 264 |
Managing Employees through Monitoring | p. 267 |
Business Reasons to Limit Monitoring | p. 271 |
Balancing Interests | p. 271 |
Monitoring Employees through Drug Testing | p. 274 |
Other Forms of Monitoring | p. 276 |
Regulation of Off-Work Acts | p. 277 |
Privacy Rights since September 11. 2001 | p. 280 |
Readings | p. 288 |
The New Economy: Ethical Issues | p. 289 |
Gene Machine: Keep Your Hands off Our Genes | p. 296 |
Drug Testing and the Right to Privacy: Arguing the Ethics of Workplace Drug Testing | p. 301 |
Alternative Explanations for Drug Testing-Blaming the Individual | p. 307 |
Ethics and Marketing | p. 311 |
Introduction | p. 313 |
Ethical Issues in Marketing: A Framework | p. 315 |
Responsibility for Products: Safety and Liability | p. 318 |
Contractual Standards for Product Safety | p. 319 |
Tort Standards for Product Safety | p. 321 |
Strict Product Liability | p. 326 |
Ethical Debates on Product Liability | p. 326 |
Responsibility for Products: Advertising and Sales | p. 328 |
Ethical Issues in Advertising | p. 330 |
Marketing Ethics and Consumer Autonomy | p. 333 |
Marketing to Vulnerable Populations | p. 336 |
Supply Chain Responsibility | p. 341 |
Readings | p. 347 |
An Interview with Alex Molnar | p. 347 |
Sony Online Entertainment: EverQuest or EverCrack? Oxford-Style Debate Presented at Tenth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics | p. 351 |
Everquest: A Rejoinder to Hartman and Pava | p. 361 |
Wrestling with Ethics: Is Marketing Ethics an Oxymoron? | p. 362 |
Business, the Environment, and Sustainability | p. 369 |
Introduction | p. 371 |
Business Ethics and Environmental Values | p. 372 |
Business's Environmental Responsibility: The Market Approach | p. 376 |
Business's Environmental Responsibility: The Regulatory Approach | p. 381 |
Business's Environmental Responsibilities: The Sustainability Approach | p. 383 |
Business Opportunities in a Sustainable Economy | p. 387 |
Principles for a Sustainable Business | p. 389 |
Readings | p. 394 |
Morality, Money, and Motor Cars | p. 395 |
The Next Industrial Revolution | p. 401 |
Taking Sustainability Seriously: An Argument for Managerial Responsibility | p. 410 |
Ethical Decision Making: Corporate Governance, Accounting, and Finance | p. 419 |
Professional Duties and Conflicts of Interest | p. 422 |
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | p. 426 |
The Internal Control Environment | p. 428 |
Going beyond the Law: Being an Ethical Board Member | p. 430 |
Legal Duties of Board Members | p. 430 |
Beyond the Law, There Is Ethics | p. 431 |
Conflicts of Interest in Accounting and the Financial Markets | p. 434 |
Executive Compensation | p. 436 |
Insider Trading | p. 442 |
Readings | p. 451 |
Excerpts from "Enron: The Parable" | p. 451 |
WorldCom with Worldcom Update | p. 457 |
Will the SEC Ever Get Serious about Making Corporate Insiders Pay for Fraud? | p. 467 |
Three Women's Moral Courage: Why We Care | p. 468 |
Glossary | p. 471 |
Index | p. 479 |
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