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IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Contents
Preface
PART ONE Basic Principles
Chapter 1 Ethics and Business
Chapter 2 Ethical Principles in Business
PART TWO The Market and Business
Chapter 3 The Business System: Government, Markets,
Chapter 4 Ethics in the Marketplace
PART THREE Business and Its External Exchanges:
Ecology and Consumers
Chapter 5 Ethics and the Environment
Chapter 6 The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing
PART FOUR Business and Its Internal Constituencies
Chapter 7 The Ethics of Job Discrimination
Chapter 8 Ethics and the Employee
Notes
Index
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:
ContentsPreface
PART ONE Basic Principles
Chapter 1 Ethics and Business
Introduction
1.1 The Nature of Business Ethics
ON THE EDGE: Was National Semiconductor Morally Responsible?
1.2 Ethical Issues in Business
ON THE EDGE: A Traditional Business
1.3 Moral Responsibility and Blame
ON THE EDGE: WorldCom’s Whistleblower
ON THE EDGE: Gun Manufacturers and Responsibility
CASES FOR DISCUSSION
Slavery in the Chocolate Industry
Aaron Beam and the HealthSouth Fraud
Chapter 2 Ethical Principles in Business
Introduction
2.1 Utilitarianism: Weighing Social Costs and Benefits
2.2 Rights and Duties
ON THE EDGE: Should Companies Dump Their Wastes In Poor
Countries?
ON THE EDGE: Working for Eli Lilly & Company
ON THE EDGE: Conflict Diamonds
ON THE EDGE: ExxonMobil, Amerada Hess, and Marathon Oil in
Equatorial Guinea
CASES FOR DISCUSSION
Traidos Bank and Roche’s Drug Trials in China
PART TWO The Market and Business
Chapter 3 The Business System: Government, Markets,
and International Trade
Introduction
3.1 Free Markets and Rights: John Locke
3.2 Free Markets and Utility: Adam Smith
3.3 Free Trade and Utility: David Ricardo
3.4 Marx and Justice: Criticizing Markets and Free Trade
ON THE EDGE: Commodification or How Free Should Free Markets Be?
ON THE EDGE: Marx’s Children
3.5 Conclusion: The Mixed Economy, the New Property,
and the End of Marxism
ON THE EDGE: Napster’s Lost Revolution
ON THE EDGE: Brian’s Franchise
CASES FOR DISCUSSION
The GM Bailout
Accolade versus Sega
Chapter 4 Ethics in the Marketplace
Introduction
4.1 Perfect Competition
4.2 Monopoly Competition
ON THE EDGE: Drug Company Monopolies and Profits
4.3 Oligopolistic Competition
4.4 Oligopolies and Public Policy
ON THE EDGE: Fixing the Computer Memory Market
ON THE EDGE: Oracle and Peoplesoft
CASES FOR DISCUSSION
Intel’s “Rebates” and Other Ways It “Helped” Customers
Archer Daniels Midland and the Friendly Competitors
PART THREE Business and Its External Exchanges:
Ecology and Consumers
Chapter 5 Ethics and the Environment
Introduction
5.1 The Dimensions of Pollution and Resource Depletion
5.2 The Ethics of Pollution Control
5.3 The Ethics of Conserving Depletable Resources
ON THE EDGE: Ford’s Toxic Wastes
ON THE EDGE: The Auto Companies in China
ON THE EDGE: Exporting Poison
CASES FOR DISCUSSION
The Ok Tedi Copper Mine
Gas or Grouse?
Chapter 6 The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing
Introduction
6.1 Markets and Consumer Protection
6.2 The Contract View of Business Firm’s Duties to Consumers
6.3 The Due Care Theory
ON THE EDGE: The Tobacco Companies and Product Safety
6.4 The Social Costs View of the Manufacturer’s Duties
ON THE EDGE: Selling Personalized Genetics
6.5 Advertising Ethics
ON THE EDGE: Advertising Death to Kids?
ON THE EDGE: New Balance and the “Made in USA” Label
6.6 Consumer Privacy
CASES FOR DISCUSSION
Becton Dickinson and Needle Sticks
Reducing Debts at Credit Solutions of America
PART FOUR Business and Its Internal Constituencies
Chapter 7 The Ethics of Job Discrimination
Introduction
7.1 Job Discrimination: Its Nature
ON THE EDGE: Helping Patients at Plainfield Healthcare Center
7.2 Discrimination: Its Extent
7.3 DISCRIMINATION: UTILITY, RIGHTS, AND JUSTICE
7.4 Affirmative Action
ON THE EDGE: Driving for Old Dominion
ON THE EDGE: Peter Oiler and Winn-Dixie Stores
CASES FOR DISCUSSION
Should Kroger pay now for what a Ralphs’ Employee did in the Past
Wal-Mart’s Women
Chapter 8 Ethics and the Employee
Introduction
8.1 The Rational Organization
8.2 The Political Organization
8.3 The Caring Organization
ON THE EDGE: HP’s Secrets and Oracle’s New Hire
ON THE EDGE: Insider Trading or: What Are Friends For?
ON THE EDGE: Delivering Pizza
ON THE EDGE: Sergeant Quon’s Text Messages
ON THE EDGE: Employment at Will at Howmet Corporation?
CASES FOR DISCUSSION
Death at Massey Energy Company
Who Should Pay?
Notes
Index
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