Business and Society Ethics and Stakeholder Management

by Carroll, Archie B.; Buchholtz, Ann K.

• ISBN13: 9780324569391
• ISBN10: 0324569394
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-20
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub

Summary

Introduce your students to important and diverse stakeholder management and ethical frameworks for considering and protecting critical stakeholder interests with the latest edition of BUSINESS AND SOCIETY. Students learn how responsible business decision makers balance and protect the interests of various stakeholders, including investors, employees, the community, and the environment. Proven content within the book emphasizes the social, legal, political, and ethical responsibilities of a business to all external and internal groups that have a stake, or interest, in that business. Strong coverage of ethics and the stakeholder model is balanced with new discussion on corporate governance and other current, relevant issues shaping business today. A variety of quality business cases, Ethics in Practice cases, and other real-world applications provide abundant opportunities to apply stakeholder and ethical systems to specific business problems. Practical applications prepare future managers for business situations that will test their values and ethics in the workplace. Students learn to focus their reasoning and enhance the precision with which they consider and make ethical decisions. A strengthened, comprehensive package accompanying this edition provides a refined Test Bank now correlated to AACSB standards and a wealth of resources to help provide the solid understanding of both individual organizational and society topics that your students need for business success.

Author Biography

Ann K. Buchholtz is an associate professor of strategic management in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia.

Table of Contents

Business, society, and stakeholders

The Business and Society Relationship

Corporate Citizenship: Social Responsibility, Responsiveness, and Performance

The Stakeholder Approach to Business, Society, and Ethics

Corporate governance and strategic management issues

Corporate Governance: Foundational Issues

Strategic Management and Corporate Public Affairs

Issues Management and Crisis Management

Business ethics and management

Business Ethics Fundamentals

Personal and Organizational Ethics

Business Ethics and Technology

Ethical Issues in the Global Arena

External stakeholder issues

Business, Government, and Regulation

Business Influence on Government and Public Policy

Consumer Stakeholders: Information Issues and Responses

Consumer Stakeholders: Product and Service Issues

The Natural Environment as Stakeholder

Business and Community Stakeholders

Internal stakeholder issues

Employee Stakeholders and Workplace Issues

Employee Stakeholders: Privacy, Safety, and Health

Employment Discrimination and Affirmative Action

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