
Business ethics : case studies and selected readings
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Business ethics : case studies and selected readings
Yazar:
Jennings, Marianne.
ISBN:
9780324004045
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Edition:
3rd ed.
Yayım Bilgisi:
Cincinnati : West Educational Pub., c1999.
Fiziksel Tanım:
xviii, 365 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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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.
Table of Contents
| 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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