Business ethics : case studies and selected readings

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Yazar:

Jennings, Marianne.

ISBN:

9780324004045

Ek Yazar:

Jennings, Marianne.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Yayım Bilgisi:

Cincinnati : West Educational Pub., c1999.

Fiziksel Tanım:

xviii, 365 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Konu Terimleri:

Business ethics -- United States -- Case studies.

İşletme ahlakı -- ABD -- Alan çalışmaları.

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This book provides real-life examples of ethical dilemmas, poor ethical choices, and wise ethical decisions from the newspapers, business journals and the author's experiences as a consultant and board member. This book exposes the reader to a critical issue---the strong sense of values that is essential to principled and successful leadership in the business world.

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
Unit 1 Foundations of Business Ethics: Virtue, Values, and Business	p. 1
Section A Defining Business Ethics	p. 2
Reading 1.1 What Is Business Ethics?	p. 2
Reading 1.2 The Areas of Ethical Challenges	p. 3
Reading 1.3 Recognizing Ethical Dilemmas: The Language	p. 4
Reading 1.4 The Categories of Ethical Dilemmas	p. 6
Section B Resolutions of Business Ethics Dilemma	p. 9
Reading 1.5 Is Business Bluffing Ethical?	p. 9
Reading 1.6 Ethics Without the Sermon	p. 19
Reading 1.7 Other Models for Resolution of Business Ethics Dilemmas	p. 30
Section C Applying the Foundations of Business Ethics	p. 33
Reading 1.8 Trying Out the Models and a Resolution Approach	p. 33
Case 1.9 Barbara Walters and Her Andrew Lloyd Webber Conflict	p. 34
Case 1.10 The Rigged Election	p. 36
Case 1.11 The Loan Officer and the Debtors	p. 36
Unit 2 Foundations of Business Ethics: What Is the Role of Business in Society? Shareholders vs. Stakeholders	p. 39
Section A The Role of Business in Society	p. 40
Reading 2.1 The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits	p. 41
Reading 2.2 The Ethics of Responsibility	p. 47
Reading 2.3 Principles of Social Responsibility in Business	p. 51
Reading 2.4 Schools of Thought on Social Responsibility	p. 53
Section B Stakeholder vs. Shareholder Accountability	p. 55
Reading 2.5 Stakeholder Theory and the Coase Theorem	p. 55
Reading 2.6 Appeasing Stakeholders with Public Relations	p. 57
Section C Applying Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory	p. 59
Case 2.7 SUVs, the Environment, Safety, and Stakeholders	p. 59
Case 2.8 Ice-T, the Body Count Album, and Shareholder Uprisings	p. 67
Case 2.9 Guns 'n Social Responsibility	p. 72
Case 2.10 Shock Jock: Howard Stern	p. 83
Case 2.11 Dayton-Hudson and Its Contributions to Planned Parenthood	p. 84
Case 2.12 Bayer, Anthrax, Cipro, Patents, and Half-Price	p. 85
Case 2.13 The Chicago Inner-City School Experiment	p. 90
Unit 3 Individual Values and the Business Organization	p. 91
Section A Personal Values in Business Decisions	p. 93
Reading 3.1 The Parable of the Sadhu	p. 93
Reading 3.2 The Moving Line	p. 99
Section B Personal Honesty	p. 101
Case 3.3 Puffing in the Resume	p. 101
Case 3.4 Radar Detectors and the Law	p. 103
Case 3.5 The Ethics of Looking Busy	p. 103
Case 3.6 The Employment Application Lie That Haunts the Applicant	p. 104
Case 3.7 Travel Expenses: A Chance for Extra Income?	p. 105
Case 3.8 Do Cheaters Prosper?	p. 106
Section C Trust and Employment	p. 107
Case 3.9 General Motors, Volkswagen, and the Traveling Executive	p. 107
Case 3.10 The Sale of Sand to the Saudis	p. 109
Case 3.11 The Compliance Officer Who Strayed	p. 110
Case 3.12 Espionage and Job-Hopping	p. 112
Case 3.13 The Glowing Recommendation	p. 113
Reading 3.14 The Ethics of Confrontation	p. 114
Section D Taking Advantage	p. 121
Case 3.15 Napster: The Ethics of "Peer-to-Peer File Sharing"	p. 121
Case 3.16 The Dot-Coms and Finance	p. 125
Case 3.17 Nestle Infant Formula	p. 131
Unit 4 Individual Rights and the Business Organization	p. 135
Section A Corporate Due Process	p. 136
Case 4.1 Ann Hopkins, Price Waterhouse, and the Partnership	p. 136
Section B Employee Screening	p. 140
Case 4.2 Handwriting Analysis and Employment	p. 140
Case 4.3 Health and Genetic Screening	p. 142
Section C Employee Privacy	p. 144
Case 4.4 Employee and Technology Privacy: Is the Boss Spying?	p. 144
Case 4.5 The Athlete Role Model	p. 150
Case 4.6 Drug Testing of Employees	p. 151
Section D Sexual Harassment	p. 153
Case 4.7 Seinfeld in the Workplace	p. 153
Case 4.8 Hooters: More Than a Waitress?	p. 155
Case 4.9 Navy Top Guns and Sexual Harassment	p. 156
Section E Diversity, Equal Employment, and Affirmative Action	p. 160
Reading 4.10 The Benefits of Diversity--Doug Daft, CEO of Coca-Cola, Inc.	p. 160
Case 4.11 On-the-Job Fetal Injuries	p. 165
Case 4.12 Denny's: Discriminatory Service with a Smile	p. 167
Case 4.13 Texaco: The Jelly Bean Diversity Fiasco	p. 170
Case 4.14 Hunter Tylo: Pregnancy Is Not a BFOQ	p. 181
Section F Whistle-Blowing	p. 183
Reading 4.15 The Options for Whistle-Blowers	p. 183
Case 4.16 Beech-Nut and the No-Apple-Juice Apple Juice	p. 183
Case 4.17 NASA and the Space Shuttle Booster Rockets	p. 190
Case 4.18 Dow Corning and the Silicone Implants: Questions of Safety and Disclosure	p. 194
Case 4.19 The Changing Time Cards	p. 204
Section G Employee Rights	p. 207
Case 4.20 Cheap Labor: Children, Sweatshops, Human Rights, and the Fifty-Hour Work Week	p. 207
Reading 4.21 Human Rights Declarations and Company Policies	p. 214
Unit 5 Business Operations	p. 227
Section A Earnings, Transparency, and Management	p. 228
Reading 5.1 Earnings Management: The Ethical Issues Remain	p. 228
Reading 5.2 That "M" Word: To Disclose or Not to Disclose--Materiality and Ethics in Financial Reporting	p. 231
Reading 5.3 Chainsaw Al and the Ethics of Materiality in Financial Reporting	p. 238
Case 5.4 Creative Medical Billing	p. 245
Case 5.5 MiniScribe and the Auditors	p. 249
Case 5.6 FINOVA and the Loan Write-Off	p. 251
Case 5.7 Phar-Mor Earnings	p. 257
Case 5.8 Overstated Earnings: Bausch & Lomb	p. 260
Case 5.9 Enron--The CFO, Conflicts, and Cooking the Books with Natural Gas and Electricity	p. 262
Section B Personal Ambition and Hubris	p. 278
Case 5.10 Jonathan Lebed: The Middle School Tycoon	p. 278
Case 5.11 The Inside Tract: Dan Dorfman	p. 279
Case 5.12 The Ethics of Derivatives	p. 281
Case 5.13 Compensation-Fueled Dishonesty: Fraud to Get Results	p. 286
Case 5.14 The Ethics of Bankruptcy	p. 289
Section C Conflicts between the Corporation's Ethical Code and Business Practices in Foreign Countries	p. 293
Case 5.15 Product Dumping	p. 293
Case 5.16 The Taboo of Women in Management	p. 294
Section D Unauthorized Payments to Foreign Officials	p. 296
Reading 5.17 The Ethics of Business in China and Business Ethics in China	p. 296
Case 5.18 The Adoption Agency and Senor Jose's Fees	p. 300
Case 5.19 Salt Lake City, the Olympics, and Bribery	p. 301
Section E Workplace Safety	p. 309
Reading 5.20 The Regulatory Cycle	p. 309
Case 5.21 Electromagnetic Fields: Exposure for Workers and Customers	p. 312
Case 5.22 Johns-Manville and the Asbestos Exposure	p. 319
Case 5.23 Domino's Pizza Delivers	p. 328
Case 5.24 Cell Phones	p. 329
Section F Plant Closures and Downsizing	p. 333
Case 5.25 Aaron Feuerstein and Malden Mills	p. 333
Case 5.26 GM Plant Closings and Efforts at Outplacement	p. 335
Section G Environmental Issues	p. 337
Case 5.27 Herman Miller and Its Rain Forest Chairs	p. 337
Case 5.28 Exxon and Alaska	p. 339
Case 5.29 The Death of the Great Disposable Diaper Debate	p. 344
Section H Purchasing: Conflicts and Bribery	p. 347
Case 5.30 JCPenney and Its Wealthy Buyer	p. 347
Case 5.31 Cars for Cars: Honda Executives' Allocation System	p. 349
Case 5.32 Ford, Firestone, and the Rolling Explorer	p. 350
Unit 6 Business and Its Competition	p. 365
Section A Advertising Content	p. 366
Case 6.1 Joe Camel: The Cartoon Character Who Sold Cigarettes and Nearly Felled an Industry	p. 366
Case 6.2 Alcohol Advertising: The College Focus	p. 371
Case 6.3 The Obligation to Screen? The Obligation to Reject--Soldier of Fortune Classifieds	p. 374
Case 6.4 Aggressive Marketing of Prescription Drugs: Forms of Direct Sales	p. 377
Case 6.5 Hollywood Ads	p. 379
Section B Appropriation of Others' Ideas	p. 380
Case 6.6 Ragu Thick and Zesty	p. 380
Case 6.7 The Little Intermittent Windshield Wiper and Its Little Inventor	p. 381
Case 6.8 V-A-N-N-A: It Belongs to Me	p. 382
Case 6.9 Copyrights, Songs, and Charity	p. 383
Section C Pricing	p. 385
Case 6.10 Salomon Brothers and Bond Pricing	p. 385
Case 6.11 Archer Daniels Midland: A Giant in Grain	p. 390
Case 6.12 Sotheby's and Christie's: The No-Auction Prices	p. 392
Section D Competitors, the Playing Field, and Competition	p. 396
Case 6.13 Slotting: Facilitation, Costs, or Bribery	p. 396
Case 6.14 Mr. Gates: Genius and Fierce Competitor	p. 401
Section E Business and Its Shareholders	p. 403
Case 6.15 Executive Compensation	p. 403
Case 6.16 Shareholder Proposals and Corporate Governance	p. 408
Unit 7 Business and Its Product	p. 411
Section A Contract Relations	p. 412
Case 7.1 Intel and Pentium: What to Do When the Chips Are Down	p. 412
Case 7.2 Hidden Car Rental Fees	p. 415
Case 7.3 Thinning Diet Industry	p. 418
Case 7.4 Sears and High-Cost Auto Repairs	p. 423
Case 7.5 Magazine Contests: The Disclosure of Odds	p. 429
Case 7.6 McDonald's and the Disappearing Dodge Viper Game Pieces	p. 430
Section B Product Safety	p. 432
Case 7.7 Tylenol: The Product and Its Packaging Safety	p. 432
Case 7.8 Ford and Its Pinto	p. 435
Case 7.9 GM and Its Malibu	p. 443
Case 7.10 ATVs: Danger on Wheels	p. 445
Case 7.11 A. H. Robins and the Dalkon Shield	p. 449
Case 7.12 E. Coli, Jack-in-the-Box, and Cooking Temperatures	p. 452
Section C Product Social Issues	p. 455
Case 7.13 The Mommy Doll	p. 455
Case 7.14 Rock Music Warning Labels	p. 456
Case 7.15 Stem-Cell Research	p. 459
Unit 8 Business and Government	p. 461
Section A Government Employees	p. 462
Case 8.1 A Club in My Name	p. 462
Case 8.2 The Fireman and His Family	p. 463
Case 8.3 Commodities, Conflicts, and Clintons	p. 463
Case 8.4 The Secretary of Agriculture, Chicken Processors, and Football Skybox Seats	p. 465
Case 8.5 The City Council Member with Clout	p. 470
Case 8.6 IRS Employees and Sensitive Data	p. 471
Case 8.7 The Generous and Profitable Foundation Board	p. 472
Section B Government Contracts	p. 475
Case 8.8 Stanford University and Government Overhead Payments	p. 475
Case 8.9 Casino Leases and the County Supervisor	p. 477
Case 8.10 Bids, Employees, and Conflicts	p. 478
Section C Government Responsibilities	p. 479
Case 8.11 Orange County: Derivative Capital of the United States	p. 479
Case 8.12 Cars and Conflicts	p. 481
Unit 9 Ethics and Nonprofits	p. 483
Section A Ethics and Nonprofits	p. 484
Case 9.1 Giving and Spending the United Way	p. 484
Case 9.2 New Era--If It Sounds Too Good to Be True, It Is Too Good to Be True	p. 486
Case 9.3 The Red Cross, New York, and Ground Zero	p. 489

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