Honest Work A Business Ethics Reader

by Ciulla, Joanne B.; Martin, Clancy; Solomon, Robert C.

• ISBN13: 9780197617052
• ISBN10: 0197617050
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-12-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader

ISBN: 9780197617052

Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader is a comprehensive textbook designed for courses in business ethics. This fifth edition, published by Oxford University Press on April 14, 2025, is a go-to resource for students and educators alike, offering a detailed exploration of the personal dimension of ethics in business.

Who Uses It?

Primarily, this book is used by students and instructors in business ethics courses at the college and university levels. It's also a valuable resource for anyone interested in understanding the ethical principles of business, including professionals looking to refresh their knowledge or expand their understanding of ethical behavior in the workplace.

History and Editions

The fifth edition of Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader has been updated to address user feedback, incorporating the latest research and discussions on ethical behavior in business. This edition includes detailed case studies and poses study questions at the end of each reading and chapter, making it easier for students to apply what they've learned. The book features 105 brief articles and 70 real-life case studies, providing a rich and diverse set of examples to explore.

Author and Other Works

The authors of Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader are Clancy Martin, Joanne Ciulla, and Robert Solomon. Clancy Martin is known for his insightful contributions to the field of business ethics, while Joanne Ciulla brings her expertise in leadership and ethical behavior. Robert Solomon was a renowned philosopher who made significant contributions to the study of ethics and leadership.

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• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: April 14, 2025
• Number of Pages: 720 pages
• Language: English

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• Comprehensive Coverage: The book covers core concepts in business ethics, including detailed explanations and real-life case studies.
• Diversity and Representation: The text reflects the diversity within the discipline of business ethics and across various cultural contexts.
• Updated Research: The fifth edition includes detailed updates on ethical behavior in business, incorporating the latest research and discussions.
• Study Tools: The book poses study questions at the end of each reading and chapter, making it easier for students to apply what they've learned.
• Leadership Exploration: A chapter on leadership explores the relationship between leadership and ethical behavior in business.

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Author Biography

Joanne B. Ciulla is Professor and Director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers Business School.

Clancy Martin is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

The late Robert C. Solomon was Professor of Philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin

Table of Contents

1 On the Job: Everyday Ethics at Work
Introduction
Box 1.1: “Sloth: The Noonday Demon”
1.1 Norman E. Bowie “Respecting the Humanity in a Person”
Box 1.2: “W. D. Ross on Prima Facie Duties”
1.1 Arlie Hochshild“Exploring the Managed Heart”
Box 1.3: “Robert C. Solomon, The Passions”
1.3 Caitlin C. Rosenthal, A Cautionary Tale from a Slaveholder's Journal
Box 1.4: “John Stuart Mill on the Greatest Good and Expediency”
1.4 Jerry Goodstein and Kenneth D. Butterfield “Restorative Justice and the Aftermath of Unethical Behavior”
1.5 Jobs with Justice Education Fund “The Changing Nature of Work”
Box 1.5 Worthy Work
1.6 Harvard Law Review “Facial Discrimination”
1.7 J Brennan, W. English, J. Hasnas, & P. Jaworski, “How to Manage an Unethical Workplace”
Box 1.6: The Most Common Types of Unethical Behavior at Work
Cases
Case 1.1 Gregory Barber and Staff, The Turmoil over 'Black Lives Matter' and political Speech at Coinbase
Case 1.2: Sloan Wilson, “The Job Interview”
Case 1.3 Joanne B. Ciulla, “Sleazy or Stupid”
Case 1.4 Sara Fioravanti, “Working Two Jobs”
Case 1.5: Joanne B. Ciulla, “Does Home Life Matter at Work?”
Case 1.6: Joanne B. Ciulla, “The Best Person for the Job?”
Case 1.5: Joanne B. Ciulla, “Attraction or Business as Usual?”
Box 1.7: “Sexual Harassment Guidelines”
2 “The Check Is in the Mail”: Honesty and Trust in Business
Introduction
Box 2.1: “Aristotle, Kant, and Mill on Honesty”
2.1 Albert Z. Carr “Is Business Bluffing Ethical?”
Box 2.2: “Nietzsche on Honesty”
2.2 Sissela Bok “Defining Secrecy-Some Crucial Distinctions”
2.3 Harry G. Frankfurt “On Bullshit”
2.4 Niccolò Machiavelli “The Prince”
2.5 Paul Ekman and Mark G. Frank “Lies That Fail”
Box 2.3: “Transparency International-USA Program”
2.6 Robert C. Solomon and Fernando Flores “Building Trust”
2.7 Tamar Frankel “Trust, Honesty and Ethics in Business”
2.8 Plato “Ring of Gyges”
Cases
Case 2.1: D. Anthony Plath, “The Curious Loan Approval”
Case 2.2: Robert C. Solomon, “Willful Ignorance? Or Deception?”
Case 2.3: Clancy Martin, “Blindsided by Bankruptcy”
Case 2.4: William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry, “Testing for Honesty”
3 Money, How We Get It, and Where It Goes: Accounting, Finance, and Investment Ethics
Introduction
Box 3.1 : “Accounting and Mergers”
Box 3.2: “Six Principles of Ethical Accounting”
3.1 Edward J. Balleisen “On Fraud”
3.2 Carol J. Loomis “Lies, Damned Lies, and Managed Earnings”
Box 3.3: “Learning to Cheat?”
Box 3.4: “Ethical Decision Making”
3.3 Ed Cohen “Arthur Andersen Refugees Reflect on What Went Wrong”
3.4 Robert E. Frederick and W. Michael Hoffman “The Individual Investor in Securities
3.5 Markets: An Ethical Analysis
3.6 John R. Boatright “Finance Ethics”
3.7 Jennifer Moore “What Is Really Unethical about Insider Trading?”
Box 3.5: Roel C. Campos, “Ethics Matter”
3.8 Frank Partnoy “F.I.A.S.C.O.”
Box 3.6: “Aristotle on Money”
3.9 Paul B. Farrell “Derivatives, the New 'Ticking Bomb'”
3.10 Duff McDonald “The Running of the Hedgehogs”
3.11 Niall Ferguson “Wall Street Lays Another Egg”
Cases
Case 3.1: The Democratic Policy Committee, “A Modern History of 'Creative' Accounting”
Case 3.2: Lisa H. Newton and David P. Schmidt, “Merger Mania”
Case 3.3: Richard F. DeMong, “SNB Annual Conference”
Case 3.4: D. Anthony Plath, “The Accidental Bank Robbery”
Case 3.5: Kimberly Amadeo, “The Stock Market Crash of 2008”
Case 3.6: Joanne B. Ciulla, David Kirshenbaum, Scott Stimpfel, “A Judgment Call”
4 Who Gets What and Why?: Fairness and Justice
Introduction
Box 4.1: “Plato and Aristotle on Justice”
4.1 Adam Smith “On Human Exchange and Human Differences”
4.2 Joanne B. Ciulla “Exploitation of Need”
Box 4.2: “Marx on Alienated Labor”
4.3 John Rawls “Justice as Fairness”
4.4 Michael Walzer “Tyranny and Complex Equality”
4.5 Robert Nozick “Anarchy, State, and Utopia”
4.6 Friedrich von Hayek “Justice Ruins the Market”
4.7 Gerald W. McEntee “Comparable Worth: A Matter of Simple Justice”
4.8 Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook, Winner-Take-All Markets and Inequality
4.9 Peter Singer “The Obligation to Assist”
Box 4.3: Effective Altruism
Cases
Case 4.1: Joanne B. Ciulla, Mickey Mouse Wages
Case 4.2: William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry, “Burger Beefs”
Case 4.3 Nick Wadhams, “Bad Charity (All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt)”
5 Is “The Social Responsibility of Business to Increase Its Profits”?: Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory
Introduction
5.1 Milton Friedman “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits”
BOX 5.1: “Expensify and Joe Biden”
5.2 Christopher D. Stone “Why Shouldn't Corporations Be Socially Responsible?”
5.3 Peter A. French “Corporate Moral Agency”
BOX 5.2: Four Types of Corporate Social Responsibility
5.4 Kenneth J. Arrow “Social Responsibility and Economic Efficiency”
5.5 Richard Parker “Corporate Social Responsibility and Crisis”
5.6 Alexei M. Marcoux “Business Ethics Gone Wrong”
5.7 Paul A. Argenti “Corporate Ethics in the Era of Millennials”
Cases
Case 5.1: Ana G. Johnson and William F. Whyte, “Mondragon Cooperatives”
Case 5.2: Rogene A. Buchholz, “The Social Audit”
Case 5.3: Kelley MacDougall, Tom L. Beauchamp, and John Cuddihy, “The NYSEG Corporate Responsibility Case”
Case 5.4: Thomas I. White, “Beech-Nut's Imitation Apple Juice”
Case 5.5: Thomas I. White, “Sentencing a Corporation to Prison”
Case 5.6: Brian Grow, Steve Hamm, and Louise Lee, “The Debate over Doing Good”
Case 5.7: Jagdish Bhagwati, “Blame Bangladesh, Not the Brands”
6 When Innovation Bytes Back: Ethics and Technology
Introduction
Box 6.1: “Locke on Property”
Box 6.2: Richard De George, “Seven Theses for Business Ethics and the Information Age”
Box 6.3: “Foucault and the Panopticon”
6.1 Elizabeth A. Buchanan “Information Ethics in a Worldwide Context”
6.2 Jonathan Shaw: Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
BOX 6.4: Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence
6.3 Victoria Groom and Clifford Nass “Can Robots Be Teammates?”
Box 6.5: C. Kluckhorn, “An Internet Culture?”
6.4 Clive Thompson “The Next Civil Rights Battle Will Be over the Mind”
6.5 Bill Joy “Why the Future Doesn't Need Us”
Cases
Case 6.1: Joel Rudinow and Anthony Graybosch, “The Digital Divide”
Case 6.2: Joel Rudinow and Anthony Graybosch, “Hacking into the Space Program”
Case 6.3: Joel Rudinow and Anthony Graybosch, “The I Love You Virus”
Case 6.4: James Losey, “The Internet's Intolerable Acts”
Case 6.5: Emily Bell, The Modern Dilemma of TikTok Journalism
Case 6.6 Jodi Kantor, Karen Weise and Grace Ashford, Inside Amazon's Worst Human Resource Problem
7 The Art of Seduction: The Ethics of Advertising, Marketing, and Sales
Introduction
7.1 Thorstein Veblen “Conspicuous Consumption”
7.2 John Kenneth Galbraith “The Dependence Effect”
Box 7.1: Plato on the Danger of Believing Bad Arguments
7.3 Friedrich von Hayek “The Non Sequitur of the 'Dependence Effect'”
7.4 Alan Goldman “The Justification of Advertising in a Market Economy”
Box 7.2: Alexandra Gibbs and Nancy Hungerford, CNBC, “Marketing to Millennials”
7.5 Leslie Savan “The Bribed Soul”
Box 7.3: “Ask Me no Questions EL”
7.6 Smith, Kendell, Knighton, and Wright, “Rise of the Brand Ambassador”
Cases
Case 7.1: Rogene A. Buchholz, “Advertising at Better Foods”
Case 7.2: Joseph R. Desjardins and John J. McCall, “Advertising's Image of Women”
Case 7.3: William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry, “Hucksters in the Classroom”
Case 7.4: Scott Croker, “Energy Drinks, Do They Really Work?”
Case 7.5: Sophie Aubrey, “So Many Are Unethical”
8 Things Fall Apart: Product Liability and Consumers
Introduction
8.1 Peter Huber “Liability”
Box 8.1: Definition of Liability
8.2 Stanley J. Modic “How We Got into This Mess”
8.3 Warren E. Burger “Too Many Lawyers, Too Many Suits”
8.4 Mark Dowie “Pinto Madness”
8.5 Judith Jarvis Thomson “Remarks on Causation and Liability”
BOX 8.2: Hume on Promises
8.6 Adam Thierer “When the Trial Lawyers Come for the Robot Cars”
Cases
Case 8.1: William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry, “The Skateboard Scare”
Case 8.2: Joseph R. Desjardins and John J. McCall, “Children and Reasonably Safe Products”
Case 8.3: William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry, “Living and Dying with Asbestos”
Case 8.4: Kenneth B. Moll and Associates, “Merck and Vioxx”
Case 8.5: Claude Wyle, “The Top 10 Most Dangerous Toys of All Time”
Case 8.6: Jack Bouboushian, “Ten More Deaths Blamed on Plavix”
9 “You Know How to Whistle, Don't You?”: Whistle-Blowing, Company Loyalty, and Employee Responsibility
Introduction
9.1 Frederick Bruce Bird “Moral Muteness and Moral Blindness”
Box 9.1: “Martin Luther King on Silence”
9.2 Michael Davis, Some Paradoxes of Whistle-Blowing
Box 9.2 Whistleblowing and Leaking
9.3 George D. Randals Loyalty, Corporations, and Community
Box 9.3: “How Some Employers Buy Loyalty”
9.4 David E. Soles “Four Concepts of Loyalty”
Box 9.4: Robert C. Solomon and Clancy Martin, “Blind to Earned Loyalty”
Cases
Case 9.1 Jeff Horwitz, The Facebook Whistler
Box 9.5: Jim Yardley, “The Upside of Whistle-Blowing”
Case 9.2: Pat L. Burr, “Would You Blow the Whistle on Yourself?”
Box 9.6: The Sarbones-Oxley Act and Whistleblower Rights
Case 9.3: William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry, “Changing Jobs and Changing Loyalties”
10 Think Local, Act Global: International Business
Introduction
10.1 Anthony Kwame Appiah “Global Villages”
Box 10.1: “Isaiah Berlin on Values”
10.2 Thomas Donaldson “Values in Tension: Ethics Away from Home”
10.3 John T. Noonan Jr. “A Quick Look at the History of Bribes”
Box 10.2: “The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act”
10.4 Florian Wettstein “Silence and Complicity: Elements of a Corporate Duty to Speak Out Against the Violation of Human Rights”
Box 10.3: “The Global Compact”
10.5 Denis G. Arnold and Norman E. Bowie, “Sweatshops and Respect for Persons”
Box 10.4: “A Defense of Sweatshops”
10.6 Peter R. Woods and David A. Lamond, “What Would Confucius Do?”
Box 10.5: “COMPARING VIRTUES AND VICES”
Cases
Case 10.1: Joanne B. Ciulla, “The Oil Rig”
Case 10.2: Thomas Dunfee and Diana Robertson, “Foreign Assignment”
Case 10.3: Karen Marquiss and Joanne B. Ciulla, “The Quandary at PureDrug”
Case 10.4: Judith Schrempf-Stirling and Guido Palazzo, “IBM's Business with Hitler: An Inconvenient Past”
Case 10.5: Emily Black and Miriam Eapen, “Suicides at Foxconn”
Box 10.6: “Interns at Foxconn”
11 Working with Mother Nature: Environmental Ethics and Business Ecology
Introduction
Box 11.1: “Native American Proverb”
11.1 Aldo Leopold “The Land Ethic”
11.2 Mark Sagoff “At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic”
Box 11.2: Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, “The Earth and Myself Are of One Mind”
11.3 William F. Baxter “People or Penguins”
Box 11.3: Milton Friedman, “On Pollution”
11.4 Norman Bowie “Morality, Money, and Motor Cars”
Box 11.4: Vine Deloria, “Land as a Commodity”
Box 11.5: “Who Owns the Earth?”
11.5 Peter Singer “The Place of Nonhumans in Environmental Issues”
11.6 UNESCO “The Ethical Principles of Climate Change”
Box 11.6: Luther Standing Bear, “The Tame Land”
11.7 PBS “Should We Grow GMO Crops?”
11.8 Elliott Hyman, “Who's Really Responsible for Climate Change”
Cases
Case 11.1: William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry, “Made in the U.S.A.- And Dumped”
Case 11.2: William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry, “The Fordasaurus”
Case 11.3: Denis G. Arnold, “Texaco in the Ecuadorean Amazon”
Case 11.4: Cheryl Davenport, “The Broken “Buy-One, Give-One” Model: 3 Ways to Save Toms Shoes”
Case 11.5: Morgan Carroll and Rhonda Fields, “Protect Us from Fracking”
Case 11.6: Bommier, Renouard, Fitzpatrick, Polefrone: Three Brief Discussions of Corporate Responsibility in the Climate Crisis”
12 When the Buck Stops Here: Leadership
Introduction
12.1 Niccolò Machiavelli “Is It Better to Be Loved than Feared?”
Box 12.1: “Lao Tzu and Tao-Te-Ching”
12.2 Joanne B. Ciulla “The Moral Pitfalls of Being a Leader”
Box 12.2: “Messed Up Leaders”
12.3 Al Gini “Moral Leadership and Business Ethics”
12.4 Joanne B. Ciulla “Why Business Leaders' Values Matter”
12.5 The Globe Project
12.6 Dean C. Ludwig and Clinton O. Longenecker “The Bathsheba Syndrome: The Ethical Failure of Successful Leaders”
12.7 Robert Greenleaf “Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness”
Cases
Case 12.1: George Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”
Case 12.2 Ruth Capriles, “Rags to Riches to Rags”
Case 12.3: Mary Ann Glynn and Timothy J. Dowd, “Martha Stewart Focuses on Her Salad”
Case 12.4: Joanne B. Ciulla, “Merck and Roy Vagelos: The Values of Leaders”
Case 12.5: Katherine Burton and Saijel Kishan, “How Raj Rajaratnam Gave Galleon Group Its 'Edge'”
13 Who's Minding the Store?: The Ethics of Corporate Governance
Introduction
13.1 Ralph Nader, Mark Green, and Joel Seligman “Who Rules the Corporation?”
13.2 Irving S. Shapiro “Power and Accountability: The Changing Role of the Corporate Board of Directors”
Box 13.1: Immanuel Kant, “Advice for Corporate Directors”
Box 13.2: Federal Sentencing Guidelines and Corporate Governance
13.3 Rebecca Reisner “When Does the CEO Just Quit?”
Box 13.3 Major Provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002
13.4 Thomas W. Dunfee “Corporate Governance in a Market with Morality”
13.5 John J. McCall “Employee Voice in Corporate Governance: A Defense of Strong Participation Rights”
Box 13.4: Warren Buffett, “Advice to Outside Auditors”
13.6 Eric Jackson “Why Corporate Governance Is So Important to China”
Cases
Case 13.1: Michael Lewis, “Selling Your Sole at Birkenstock”
Case 13.2: Dennis Moberg and Edward Romar, “The Good Old Boys at WorldCom”
Case 13.3: Robert Reich, “Corporate Governance and Democracy”
Case 13.4: Lefteris Pitarakis, “Fight Corporate Crimes with More Than Fines”
14 Is Everything for Sale?: The Future of the Free Market
Introduction
14.1 Aristotle “Two Kinds of Commerce”
14.2 Adam Smith “The Benefits of Capitalism”
14.3 Karl Marx “Commodity Fetishism”
14.4 Robert Heilbroner “Reflections on the Triumph of Capitalism”
14.5 John Stuart Mill “Laissez-Faire and Education”
14.6 John Maynard Keynes “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren”
14.7 E. F. Schumacher “Buddhist Economics”
14.8 Amartya Sen “The Economics of Poverty”
14.9 Daniel Bell “The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism”
14.10 Thomas Frank “Too Smart to Fail: Notes on an Age of Folly”
14.11 Robert Kuttner “Everything for Sale”
14.12 Dave Davies and Sheelah Kolhatkar “Another Insider Trading Scandal...”
Cases
Case 14.1: William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry, “Blood for Sale”
Case 14.2: Owen Jones, “Eat the Rich”
15 The Good Life
Introduction
15.1 Robert C. Solomon “Strategic Planning-For the Good Life”
15.2 Aristotle “On the Good Life”
15.3 Epicurus “On Pleasure”
15.4 Plato, One the Wants and Needs for a Good Life
Box 15.1: “Adam Smith on Capitalism”
15.5 Joanne B. Ciulla “Work and Values”
Box 15.2: Viktor Frankl, “Tragic Optimism”
15.6 Solomon Schimmel “Greed”
Box 15.3: Why We Make Ourselves Miserable
15.7 Joanne B. Ciulla “Meaningful Work and Meaningful Lives”
15.8 Lynne McFall “Integrity”
Box 15.4: “Leisure and Business”
15.9 Bertrand Russell “Impersonal Interests”
Cases
Case 15.1: Justin Bariso, Netflix's Unlimited Time Off
Box 15.5: “A Happiness Box”
Case 15.2: Arthur Miller, “A Life Badly Lived”
Case 15.3: Bowen H. McCoy, “The Parable of the Sadhu”