John E. Richardson

Business Ethics

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Produktbeschreibung

This eighteenth edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: BUSINESS ETHICS provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; a general introduction; brief overviews for each section; a topical index; and an instructor's resource guide with testing materials. USING ANNUAL EDITIONS IN THE CLASSROOM is offered as a practical guide for instructors. ANNUAL EDITIONS titles are supported by our student website, www.dushkin.com/online.

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Produktdetails

• Annual Editions: Business Ethi
• Verlag: Dushkin Publishing
• 2006-2007
• Seitenzahl: 207
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 275mm x 210mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780073528373
• ISBN-10: 0073528374
• Artikelnr.: 21130408

Inhaltsangabe

UNIT 1. Ethics, Values, and Social Responsibility in Business
Issues in Ethics, Winter 1996
Outlined here are key steps and five different approaches to dealing
with moral issues and helping to resolve ethical dilemmas.
2. Business Ethics: Back to Basics, William I. Sauser, Jr., Society for
Advancement of Management, 2005
William Sauser gives an eight-point action list for establishing a
strong ethical culture as well as provides a decision checklist when
ethical dilemmas loom.
3. Advice from Aristotle on Business Ethics, James O'Toole, At the Center:
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Winter 2005
James O'Toole defines and applies some of Aristotles principles to the
ethics of leadership.
4. Truth or Consequences: The Organizational Importance of Honesty, Erline
Belton, The Nonprofit Quarterly, Summer 2004
Erline Belton discusses why the importance of running an organization
based on truth requires the taking of personal risks and time.
Graziadio Business Report, Fall 2003
In making ethical decisions, Charles Kern advocates letting virtuous
values guide one's judgements while being aware of the mental games
that can undermine ethical decision making.
Business Ethics, Summer 2001
In this Business Ethics journal, Karen McNichol provides a list of some
of the best Web sites on corporate social responsibility. They are
listed with addresses in this article.
UNIT 2. Ethical Issues and Dilemmas in the Workplace
Part A. Employee Rights and Duties7. Flip-Flop Over Faculty Fingerprints,
Sharon Walsh, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 19, 2004
Sharon Walsh relates the difficulty in putting in place a screening
policy for new faculty hires.
Part B. Organizational Misconduct and CrimeJournal of Accountancy, April
2003
This article reveals ways auditors can help deter bribery and
kickbacks.
9. Where the Dangers Are, David Bank and Riva Richmond, The Wall Street
Journal, July 18, 2005
The authors explain the threats of information security that keep the
experts up at night—and what business and consumers can do to protect
themselves.
Part C. Sexual Treatment of EmployeesSAM Advanced Management Journal,
Autumn 2002
Retaliation against a person who complains of sexual harassment—or any
other type of discrimination—is itself a new form of employment
discrimination.
Part D. Discriminatory and Prejudicial Practices11. The Under-Reported
Impact of Age Discrimination and Its Threat to Business Vitality, Robert J.
Grossman, Business Horizons, 2005
Robert Grossman examines how the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
(ADEA) is credited with helping many blatant forms of age
discrimination in employment.
Fast Company, February 2004
Linda Tischler investigates why there are still so few women at the top
when the managerial pipeline is stuffed with capable, talented female
candidates for senior positions.
13. How Corporate America is Betraying Women, Betsy Morris, Fortune,
January 10, 2005
Forty years after sex discrimination became illegal, a huge gap in pay
and promotion still remains. Now, Betsy Morris describes how angry
women are suing their employers—and winning.
Part E. Downsizing of the Work Force14. 50 and Fired, John Helyar, Fortune
, May 16, 2005
Getting fired during one's peak earning years has always been scary.
John Helyar considers why today this is even worse than it was in the
past.
Fast Company, April 2004
The article reflects that many high-tech workers have lost jobs to
low-wage countries because of outsourcing.
Part F. Whistleblowing in the OrganizationM World, Winter 2003
Sharie Brown describes how whistleblowers can help a company resolve
problems before they become front-page fodder.
17. On Witnessing a Fraud, Don Soeken, Business Ethics, Summer 2004
A case is presented where saying "no” to the scam was easy, but
deciding whether to report it was considerably harder.
Part G. Handling Ethical Dilemmas at Work18. Birth of the Ethics Industry,
James C. Hyatt, Business Ethics, Summer 2005
James Hyatt reveals that there has been a recent mushrooming attention
to business ethics and the seeking of consultants to help companies as
they struggle to cope with the complexities of Sarbanes-Oxley
legislation, passed in 2002 in the wake of financial scandals.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 4, 2003
Derek Bok poses some thoughtful and challenging questions in this
article: Just how far have individual sponsors gone in seeking to use
higher-education institutions and professors for their own commercial
ends? How willing have universities been to accept money at the cost of
compromising values central to the academic enterprise?
20. Like the Smoke of a Blazing Room, Doug Wallace, Business Ethics, Winter
2004
Doug Wallace provides a classic case from Business Ethics about an
ethical dilemma that comes about on a company's new hotline.
Harvard Business Review, May/June 1997
The parable presented in this reading has significance for managers as
they encounter ethical dilemmas that involve merging the individual
ethic (personal values) and the corporate ethic (organizational values
) to make the best decisions within the corporate culture. Bowen McCoy
stresses the importance of management's agreeing on a process for
dealing with dilemmas and conflicts of interest.
UNIT 3. Business and Society: Contemporary Ethical, Social, and
Environmental Issues
Part A. Changing Perspectives in Business & SocietyAcross the Board,
January/February 2003
Corporate citizenship represents a diffuse concept for many. However,
according to A.J. Vogl, it generally speaks to companies voluntarily
adopting a triple bottom line, one that takes into account social,
economic, and environmental considerations as well as financial
results.
McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2000
The authors scrutinize the significance of companies that are cognizant
of the precarious nature and powerful advantages of gaining and
maintaining trust with their customers in the marketplace.
24. How Women Are Changing Corporate America, Diversity Inc., March 2005
Women approach management and leadership differently than men,
emphasizing relationship-building and attentiveness to employee needs,
both of which focus a team on common goals.
25. Old. Smart. Productive., Peter Coy, BusinessWeek, June 27, 2005
Peter Coy delineates that the next generation of older Americans is
likely to make a much bigger contribution to the economy than many of
today's forecasts predict.
26. The Truth About Drug Companies, Marcia Angell, The New York Review,
July 15, 2004
Marcia Angell examines the pharmaceutical industry and gives evidence
concerning why it is due for fundamental reform.
Part B. Contemporary Ethical Issues27. Eminent Domain: Is It Only Hope for
Inner Cities?, Ryan Chittum, The Wall Street Journal, October 5, 2005
Ryan Chittum investigates the new attention given to eminent domain—the
government's power to force a landowner to sell property at what is
considered to be a fair price.
28. Debate Flares Anew Over Violence in Video Games, Alex Pham, Los Angeles
Times, October 5, 2005
State lawmakers nationwide are considering bans on the sale or rental
to violent video games, but the industry contends such efforts to
censorship.
Part C. Global EthicsHarvard Business Review, September/October 1996
Thomas Donaldson believes that even the best-informed, best-intentioned
executives must rethink their assumptions about business practices in
foreign settings.
30. Managing Ethically with Global Stakeholders: A Present and Future
Challenge, Archie B. Carroll, Academy of Management Executive, 2004
Archie Carroll elucidates why global business ethics will demand
cutting-edge thinking and practice as companies strive to expand their
products, services, sales, and operations throughout the world.
31. Fakes!, Frederik Balfour, BusinessWeek, February 7, 2005
The global counterfeit business, according to Frederik Balfour, is out
of control, targeting everything from computer chips to life-saving
medicines.
UNIT 4. Ethics and Social Responsibility in the Marketplace
Part A. Marketing Strategy and EthicsAcross the Board, October 2000
Andrew Singer discusses why a number of companies have discovered how
difficult it is to do well by doing good. Some question whether
ethical behavior makes any economic sense at all.
33. Is Marketing Ethics an Oxymoron?, Philip Kotler, Marketing Management,
November/December 2004
Philip Kotler believes that marketers should be proud of their field
since they have encouraged and promoted the development of many
products and services that have benefited people worldwide.
34. Truth in Advertising: Rx Drug Ads Come of Age, Carol Rados, FDA
Consumer, July/August 2004
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of prescription drugs in its
varied forms—is widely used throughout the United States. Carol Rados
scrutinizes the educational and promotional effect these ads can have
on consumers.
35. Rejuvenating Wal-Mart's Reputation, Thomas A. Hemphill, Business
Horizons, 2005
Thomas Hemphill critically evaluates if Wal-Mart is a good corporate
citizen or bad influence.
Part B. Ethical Practices in the MarketplaceHarvard Business Review,
March/April 1994
Lynn Sharp Paine advocates the idea that by supporting ethically sound
behavior, managers can strengthen the relationships and reputations
that their companies depend on.
37. An Ethical Delimma: How to Build Integrity into Your Sales Environment,
Theodore B. Kinni, Selling Power, October 2004
The article wrestles with the key question: How do you equip
salespeople to deal with ethical dilemmas?
38. The Right Balance, Jennifer Gilbert, Sales & Marketing Management,
November 2004
The growing mature market is an attractive target for unscrupulous
salespeople, who take advantage of seniors' supposed vulnerability in
closing a deal. But beware, warns Jennifer Gilbert, if salespeople are
selling unethically, the cost ultimately will outweigh the benefit.
39. Patagonia's Founder Seeks to Spread Environmental Gospel, Leslie
Earnest, Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2005
Patagonia's founder and chairman, Yvon Chouinard, is now facing what
could be his biggest challenge: convincing corporate America that
environmental awareness can be a profitable model.
UNIT 5. Developing the Future Ethos and Social Responsibility of Business
Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Spring 2003
John Boatright asserts that the high-profile scandals at Enron,
WorldCom, Global Crossing, and Tyco, among others, combined with the
spectacular dissolution of the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, are
more than business failures. Top executives and their advisers also
failed to fulfill their basic fiduciary duties to serve the interests
of shareholders and the public.
41. Hiring Character, Dana Telford and Adrian Gostick, Sales & Marketing
Management, June 2005
In an excerpt from Dana Telford and Adrian Gostick's new book,
Integrity Works, they present a look at business leader Warren
Buffett's practice of hiring people based on their integrity.
Business Horizons, May/June 2003
Recent corporate scandals, according to Saul Gellerman, prove that the
lessons of previous scandals have not been learned. Instead of focusing
on the real cause: pressures that push management to test the
boundaries of the permissible, most companies would rather blame rogue
employees and pundits would blame business schools.