Perspectives in Business Ethics with PowerWeb

by Hartman, Laura Pincus

• ISBN13: 9780072538526
• ISBN10: 007253852X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-08
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin

Summary

Perspectives in Business Ethics offers a foundation in ethical thought, followed by a variety of perspectives on difficult ethical dilemmas in both the personal and professional context. This anthology encourages the reader to ¿critically evaluate each perspective using his or her own personal ethical theory base.¿ Instructors who favor an interactive, discussion-oriented approach to the ethics course will appreciate the different perspectives offered by the Hartman text. The contemporary topics and contexts will energize your classroom: international worker's rights, PETA's controversial anti-milk campaign, Stonyfield Farms' emphasis on good corporate citizenship and many more.

Table of Contents

Part One Ethical Theories and Approaches	1	(369)
Traditional Theories	5	(68)
Leviathan	11	(2)
Thomas Hobbes
Of the State of Nature	13	(3)
John Locke
Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals	16	(6)
Immanuel Kant
The Ten Commandments, Exodus 20: 1-17, The Bible	22	(1)
When Justice Replaces Affection: The Need for Rights	23	(7)
Jeremy Waldron
Utilitarianism	30	(7)
John Stuart Mill
Some Problems of Utilitarianism	37	(6)
Richard A. Posner
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas	43	(3)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Aristotelian Ethics, Camille Atkinson and Candice Fredrick	46	(6)
Distributive Justice	52	(9)
John Rawls
The Entitlement Theory	61	(5)
Robert Nozick
Closing Argument in Leopold and Loeb Case	66	(6)
Clarence Darrow
Whenever I Need to Do Some Serious Thinking..., ``Calvin & Hobbes'' Cartoon	72	(1)
Application of Traditional Theories to Modern Business Decision Making	73	(67)
It Seems Right in Theory but Does It Work in Practice? Norm Bowie	83	(4)
The Art of War	87	(2)
Sun Tzu
Some Thoughts on the Meaning of Business Ethics	89	(4)
Barbara Ley Toffler
America's Persecuted Minority: Big Business	93	(4)
Ayn Rand
The One-Minute Moralist	97	(3)
Robert Solomon
Is Business Bluffing Ethical?	100	(8)
Albert Z. Carr
Profit: Some Moral Reflections	108	(8)
Paul R Camenisch
The Ideas of Ayn Rand	116	(5)
Ronald Merrill
The Divine Right of Capital: Is Maximizing Returns to Shareholders a Legitimate Mandate?	121	(3)
Marjorie Kelly
Psychoethics	124	(6)
Terri Kaye Needle
Martin J. Lecker
Pondering Prometheus	130	(3)
Kiren Dosanjh
Venturing beyond Compliance	133	(5)
Lynn Sharp Paine
The Constitution and ServiceMaster's First Company Objective, The ServiceMaster Company	138	(2)
Individual Decision Making: Lessons Learned from the Foundations	140	(29)
Careful Decision Making, ``Calvin & Hobbes'' Cartoon	144	(1)
Quiz Yourself on Business Ethics	145	(5)
Dawn-Marie Driscoll
W. Michael Hoffman
Edward Petry
Morality: The Basic Rules	150	(3)
Robert Solomon
The Real Life of a Student: Term Papers for Sale, www.schoolsucks.com	153	(6)
The Good Samaritan, Luke 10:30-37, The Bible	159	(1)
Should Ethics Be Taught in College?	160	(2)
David Thies
Obedience to Authority Stanley Milgram	162	(5)
The Day Has Come...to Take an Accounting of My Life	167	(2)
Critical Ethical Analysis Based on an Understanding of Perceptual Differences: A Decision-Making Model	169	(51)
A Stakeholder Theory of The Modern Corporation	171	(11)
R. Edward Freeman
The Parable of the Sadhu	182	(6)
Bowen H. McCoy
The Rashomon Effect	188	(9)
Patricia Werhane
A Jury of Her Peers	197	(8)
Susan Glaspell
Where and Why Did Business Ethicists Go Wrong? The Case of Dow Corning Corporation	205	(10)
Daryl Koehn
Just Because It's Legal, Is It Ethical?	215	(5)
Jeffrey Seglin
Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: One and the Same?	220	(66)
The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits	225	(6)
Milton Friedman
Arguments for and against Corporate Social Responsibility	231	(6)
N. Craig Smith
The Wealth of Nations	237	(5)
Adam Smith
Maximizing Ethics and Profits	242	(6)
Patrick Primeaux
Smith and Friedman on the Pursuit of Self Interest and Profit	248	(9)
Harvey James, Jr.
Farhad Rassekh
Dodge v. Ford Motor Co.	257	(3)
Hon. J. Ostrander
How Business Can Be Good (and Why Being Good is Good for Business)	260	(5)
Jeffrey L. Seglin
A Hanging	265	(4)
George Orwell
Reputation Quotient: Surveys Find Many Consumers Hold Companies Responsible for Their Actions	269	(4)
Transformation at Shell: Commerce and Citizenship	273	(13)
Philip H. Mirvis
Corporate Strategy and Decision Making: Accountability	286	(51)
Profitable Ethical Programs	290	(2)
Jason Lunday
Moral Leadership and Business Ethics	292	(6)
Al Gini
Topic Study: Federal Sentencing Guidelines	298	(6)
Federal Sentencing Guidelines, United States Sentencing Commission Data	299	(2)
Hoffman-LaRoche Case: A Sentencing Guidelines Milestone	301	(3)
Jeffrey M. Kaplan
The Prince	304	(3)
Nicolo Machiavelli
Ethical Dilemmas Regarding Competitive Intelligence	307	(4)
Thomas Furtado
Airline Travel: Safety at What Price?	311	(3)
Kenneth Boyer
Topic Study: Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster	314	(23)
Space Shuttle Challenger: Mission 51-L Launch Decision	314	(7)
Kurt Hoover
Wallace T. Fowler
Roger Boisjoly on the Space Shuttle Disaster	321	(5)
Roger Boisjoly
Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident	326	(6)
Department of Disputation: Blowup	332	(5)
Malcolm Gladwell
Corporate Strategy and Decision Making: Corporate Culture and Reputation Management	337	(32)
Managing Ethics and Legal Compliance: What Works and What Hurts	339	(10)
Linda Klebe Trevino
Gary R. Weaver
David G. Gibson
Barbara Ley Toffler
Corporate Codes and Ethics Programs	349	(4)
Michael C. Deck
Motorola as Ovid: Using Myth to Inspire Ethical Behavior in Business	353	(8)
Kiren Dosanjh
Stonyfield Farm's Mission Statement	361	(2)
Do Codes of Conduct Deliver the Goods?	363	(2)
Maureen Quigley
The Prince	365	(4)
Nicola Machiavelli
Part Two Ethics in the Business Disciplines	369	(330)
Ethics and HRM: Values of the Employment Relationship	371	(119)
The Ethics of Employment Law: Whose Power Is II Anyway?	380	(9)
Roger J. Johns Jr.
Topic Study: Downsizing	389	(22)
Metaphor of The Surviving Children	389	(2)
David Doer
The Workers in the Vineyard, Matthew 20: 1-16, The Bible	391	(1)
The Ethics of Downsizing	392	(3)
Frank Navran
General Motors Corporation and the Art of Truth-Telling	395	(10)
Jason Drucker
Pinnacle Brands: A Strike Puts Employees Up to Bat	405	(4)
Gillian Flynn
When Fear of Firing Deters Hiring	409	(2)
Jeffrey L. Seglin
Topic Study: The Balance of Power	411	(22)
Masculine versus Feminine Styles	411	(5)
Camille Atkinson
Candice Fredrick
Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc.	416	(3)
Faragher v. City of Boca Raton	419	(4)
The Faragher Affirmative Defense: A Checklist	423	(4)
Kiren Dosanjh
Questions and Answers for Small Employers on Employer Liability for Harassment by Supervisors, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission	427	(6)
Topic Study: Drug Testing	433	(7)
Issues in Drug Testing for the Private Sector	433	(2)
George R. Gray
Darrel R. Brown
Is Employee Drug Testing the Answer?	435	(3)
Thomas Gollot
Mark Cohen
Eric Fillman
ACS Herbal Tea Company Materials	438	(2)
Topic Study Compensation--Comparable Worth	440	(17)
The Question of Wages	440	(3)
Ruth Rosenbaum
American Nurses Association v. State of Illinois	443	(3)
Is Pay Equity Equitable?	446	(7)
Laura B. Pincus
Nicholas J. Mathys
A Free Market Approach to Comparable Worth	453	(4)
Laura B. Pincus
Topic Study: Employee Loyalty--Whistleblowing	457	(8)
Whistleblowing and Trust: Some Lessons from the ADM Scandal	457	(7)
Daryl Koehn
The Case of George and the Military Aircraft	464	(1)
M. C. McFarland
Topic Study: Discrimination and Affirmative Action--Legislated Ethics?	465	(25)
I'm Not Supposed to Laugh at the Way People Look	465	(1)
Pete Mueller
Some Issues in Employment Discrimination on Grounds of Race, Sex, and Age, Richard Posner	466	(3)
In Defense of Non-Diversity	469	(6)
T. J. Rodgers
Diversity Management: A New Organizational Paradigm	475	(8)
Jacqueline A. Gilbert
Bette Ann Stead
Jon M. Ivancevich
Business Sues ``Discrimination Testers'' Posing as Job Applicants	483	(2)
Tammy Webber
Affirming Affirmative Action	485	(5)
Jesse L. Jackson
Ethics and Marketing	490	(92)
Topic Study: Marketing Ethics	494	(22)
Marketing Ethics: Some Dimensions of the Challenges	494	(5)
Paul F. Camenisch
Benefiting Society and the Bottom Line	499	(5)
Paul Bloom
Pattie Yu Hussein
Lisa Szykman
About the Ethics of Business Competition	504	(2)
Matti Estola
How Far Should You Go To Act As A Corporate Spy	506	(2)
Kirk O. Hanson
Nestle and the Controversy over the Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes	508	(8)
Charles McCoy
Sheila Evers
Meinolf Dierkes
Fred Twining
Topic Study: Advertising	516	(29)
Is It Ever Right To Lie? (On Truth in Advertising)	516	(4)
Robert Solomon
Whether Every Lie Is a Mortal Sin	520	(3)
St. Thomas Aquinas
Lying	523	(4)
St. Augustine
Got...Beer?! Better than Milk, New Survey Shows! People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)	527	(10)
Recent Issues in Advertising Law and Ethics: Compendium	537	(3)
Jef I. Richards
Portrayal of Women in Advertising	540	(5)
Camille Atkinson
Candice Fredrick
Topic Study: The Body Shop Controversy	545	(37)
Body Shop Scrutinized	545	(10)
Joan Bavaria
Eric Becker
Simon Billenness
Letter to Business Ethics Subscribers from Gordon Roddick	555	(9)
Letter from Marjorie Kelly	564	(4)
Materials from The Body Shop Social Statement Website	568	(7)
Social Evaluation: The Body Shop International, 1995	575	(7)
Kirk Hanson
Ethics in Finance and Accountancy	582	(66)
The Ethics of Reward Systems in the Financial Services Industry	589	(6)
Ronald Duska
Topic Study: Ethical Investment	595	(17)
What Has ``Ethical Investment'' to Do with Ethics?	595	(7)
Is There a Cost to Being Socially Responsible in Investing?	602	(5)
John B. Guerard, Jr.
Integrative Investing: Why Your Values Matter in the World of Money, The Green Money On-Line Journal	607	(2)
Cases in venture Capital Ethics	609	(3)
J. Gregory Dees
Topic Study: Ethics and Insider Trading	612	(17)
The Inside Story of an Inside Trader	612	(6)
Dennis B. Levine
Ethics, Economics and Insider Trading: Ayn Rand Meets the Theory of the Firm	618	(4)
Jonathan R. Macey
Where Should the Line Be Drawn on Insider Trading Ethics?	622	(7)
Yulong MaHuey-Lian Sun
Topic Study: Ethics in Accountancy	629	(19)
I Need Everybody to Help Out in the Shipping Department Today, ``Dilbert'' Comic Strip	629	(1)
Earnings Hocus-Pocus: How Companies Come Up with the Numbers They Want	630	(8)
Nanette Byrnes
Richard Melcher
Debra Sparks
Where Are the Accountants?	638	(3)
Richard Melcher
The Ethical Temperature at Arcticview	641	(4)
Grant Russell
The Ethical Dilemma at Northlake	645	(3)
Grant Russell
Ethical Implications of Technology	648	(51)
A Future for Technology and Ethics	653	(9)
Amanda Mujica
Edward Petry
Dianne Vickery
Technology and Ethics: Privacy in the Workplace	662	(11)
Laura P. Hartman
In Cyberspace, Everyone Can Hear You Scream	673	(2)
Daniel S. Levine
Elements of a Successful E-Mail Policy Gerard Panaro	675	(5)
The Ethical and Legal Quandary of E-mail Privacy	680	(6)
Janice C. Sipior
Burke T. Ward
Electronic Mail and Panoptic Power in the Workplace	686	(6)
Richard A. Spinello
Compliance Programs, E-Mail and the Internet	692	(3)
Jeffrey M. Kaplan
Non-profits Still Lack Technology T. J. DeGroat	695	(1)
Genetically Modified Foods: Controversy Underscores Link between Consumer Perception and Corporate Reputation	696	(3)
Carol Stavraka
Part Three Ethics in The Natural and Global Environments	699	(2)
Ethics and the Earth's Environment	701	(7)
Topic Study: Public Relations and Corporate Environmentalism	708	(1)
Sustainable PR	708	(3)
David Shenk
Garnet Hill Honored for Recycling Efforts	711	(1)
Garnet Hill
Does Q = E? The Quality Equation and Choosing Organic, Patagonia, Inc.	712	(3)
Topic Study: Corporate Environmental Responsibility	715	(1)
Business and Environmental Ethics	715	(7)
W. Michael Hoffman
Forests of the North Coast: The Owls, the Trees and the Conflicts	722	(7)
Lisa Newton
Catherine Dillingham
Environment	729	(1)
Harvey S. James
Ethics in Global Business	730	(4)
Topic Study: Ethical Principles Governing Global Business	734	(4)
Model Business Principles, U.S. Department of Commerce	734	(3)
The Caux Principles, The Caux Round Table	737	(4)
International Ethics Standards for Business: NAFTA, Caux Principles and U.S. Corporate Codes of Ethics	741	(6)
Patricia Carlson
Mark Blodgett
You Heartless Air Pirates!, ``Doonesbury'' Comic Strip	747	(1)
Topic Study: Multicultural Perspective	748	(1)
Fundamental International Rights	748	(4)
Thomas Donaldson
Business Ethics in the Middle East	752	(5)
Dove Izraeli
Major Issues of Business Ethics in Mainland China	757	(4)
Gao Guoxi
Ethics of Hope versus Ethics of Disillusionment	761	(3)
Tadeux Borkowski
Topic Study: Values in Conflict:--U.S. Standards versus Others?	764	(1)
Levi Strauss & Co. and China	764	(6)
Timothy Perkins
Colleen O'Connell
Carin Orosco
Mark Rickey
Matthew Scoble
The Denim Revolution: Levi Strauss & Co. Adopts a Code of Conduct	770	(4)
Deborah Leipziger
Re-Education through Labor	774	(3)
David Shenk
Tee-Shirts and Tears: Third World Suppliers to First World Markets	777	(10)
Laura B. Pincus
Photos of Laborers, International Labour Office	787	(2)
List of Fashion Trendsetters, U.S. Department of Labor	789	(1)
Help End Sweatshop Conditions for American Workers	790	(2)
Robert B. Reich
A Presidential Dilemma: America Go Global or America Stay Home? Ian Spaulding	792
Lori McDonough
Lawrence Ponemon