Business Ethics : Readings and Cases in Corporate Morality

• Autore: Hoffman W. Michael
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014; ©2014
• Edizione: 5th ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (774 pages)
• Disciplina: 174.4
• Soggetto topico: Business ethics -- Case studies; Business ethics; Ethics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: FrederickRobert E SchwartzMark S
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Business Ethics: Readings and Cases in Corporate Morality -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Preface -- General Introduction The Nature of Business Ethics -- Part 1 Ethics and Business From Theory to Practice -- Introduction -- 1 Theories of Economic Justice -- Justice as Fairness -- Distributive Justice -- Distributive Justice and Utilitarianism -- The "Invisible Hand" -- Corporate Ethics in a Devilish System -- Questions for Discussion -- 2 Ethics and Business Decision Making -- Teaching Ethical Decision Making and Principled Reasoning -- Business Ethics and Moral Motivation: A Criminological Perspective -- Ethical Leadership and the Psychology of Decision Making -- Cost-Benefit Analysis An Ethical Critique -- Cost-Benefit Analysis Defended -- Questions for Discussion -- Cases for Part 1 -- Mini-Cases -- MBA Student Mini-Dilemmas -- The Parable of the Sadhu -- The Ford Pinto -- The Analyst's Dilemma (A) -- Walk Away From Your Mortgage! -- The Ok Tedi Copper Mine -- Part 2 The Nature of the Corporation -- Introduction -- 3 Agency, Legitimacy, and Responsibility -- Can a Corporation Have a Conscience? -- Is Business Bluffing Ethical? -- The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits -- Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation -- Ethics in Business Two Skeptical Challenges -- Commentary on the Social Responsibility of Corporate Entities: Bad and Not-so-Bad Arguments for Shareholder Primacy -- Questions for Discussion -- 4 Corporate Governance and Accountability -- Who Rules the Corporation? -- Power and Accountability: The Changing Role of the Corporate Board of Directors -- Who Should Control the Corporation? -- Tone at the Top An Ethics Code for Directors? -- Do CEOs Get Paid Too Much? -- Questions for Discussion -- Cases for Part 2 -- Mini-Cases -- MBA Student Mini-Dilemmas. ; Fire Destroys Malden Mills -- Merck & -- Co., Inc. (A) -- Bailouts and Bonuses on Wall Street -- Citigroup's Chief Rebuffed on Pay by Shareholders -- Part 3 Work in the Corporation -- Introduction -- 5 Employee Rights and Duties -- Employee Rights -- Human Rights, Workers' Rights, and the "Right" to Occupational Safety -- Whistle-Blowing -- The Morality of Whistleblowing: A Commentary on Richard T. De George -- Conflicts of Interest -- The Moral Problem in Insider Trading -- Questions for Discussion -- 6 The Modern Workplace Obligations and Limits -- A Kantian Theory of Meaningful Work -- Organization of Work in the Company and Family Rights of the Employees -- Workplace Wars: How Much Should I be Required to Meet the Needs of Your Children? -- Discrimination, Harassment, and the Glass Ceiling: Women Executives as Change Agents -- The Debate Over the Prohibition of Romance in the Workplace -- Questions for Discussion -- Cases for Part 3 -- Mini-Cases -- MBA Student Mini-Dilemmas -- The Case of the Mismanaged Ms. -- Heineken NV: Workplace HIV/AIDS Programs in Africa (A) -- Banking: A Crack in the Swiss Vault -- Will Rewards for Whistleblowers Encourage Ethical Behavior? -- Boeing Chief is Ousted after Admitting Affair -- Abuse Scandal Inquiry Damns Paterno and Penn State -- Timeline: The Penn State Scandal -- You've Been Tagged! (Then Again, Maybe Not): Employers and Facebook -- Part 4 The Corporation in Society -- Introduction -- 7 The Consumer -- The Dependence Effect -- The Non Sequitur of the "Dependence Effect" -- The Ethics of Consumer Protection -- Marketing and the Vulnerable -- Questions for Discussion -- 8 The Environment and Sustainability -- Morality, Money, and Motor Cars -- Business and Environmental Ethics -- Creating Sustainable Value -- Rethinking the Concept of Sustainability -- Questions for Discussion -- 9 International Business. ; Ethical Dilemmas for Multinational Enterprise: A Philosophical Overview -- International Business, Morality, and the Common Good -- Values in Tension: Ethics Away from Home -- The Case for Leverage-Based Corporate Human Rights Responsibility -- What's Wrong with Bribery -- Capitalism with a Human Face: The UN Global Compact -- Questions for Discussion -- Cases for Part 4 -- Mini-Cases -- MBA Student Mini-Dilemmas -- The Ethics of Marketing: Nestlé's Infant Formula -- TransAuto Corporation Trade-offs -- Sony Online Entertainment: EverQuest® or EverCrack? -- Dicing with Death? A Case Study of Guidant Corporation's Implantable Defibrillator Business -- Chiquita Accused of Funding Colombia Terrorists -- Wal-Mart Hushed Up a Vast Mexican Bribery Case -- Yahoo! and Google in China -- Google Softens Tone on China -- Part 5 Challenges and Emerging Issues -- Introduction -- 10 Challenges and Emerging Issues -- What's the Matter with Business Ethics? -- Developing and Sustaining an Ethical Corporate Culture: The Core Elements -- The Ethics Officer as Agent of the Board: Leveraging Ethical Governance Capability in the Post-Enron Corporation -- Can a Company be Too Ethical? -- God as a Managerial Stakeholder? -- The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid -- Questions for Discussion -- Business Ethics in Hollywood Movies -- Cases for Part 5 -- Mini-Cases -- Global Corporation: Running a Global Ethics and Compliance Program -- Barrick's Tanzanian Project Tests Ethical Mining Policies -- An Ethical Approach to Crisis Management -- Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs.
• Sommario/riassunto: The fifth edition of Business Ethics addresses current, intriguing, often complex issues in corporate morality through 53 readings and 30 pertinent case studies. Now significantly updated, it includes new leading articles, related current cases, and mini-cases based on MBA student dilemmas. Addresses a broad range of the most current, intriguing, often complex issues and cases in corporate morality Provides impartial, point-counterpoint presentations of different perspectives on the most important and highly contended issues of business ethics Updated and significant case studies are included to reinforce student learning Now contains mini-cases based on actual MBA student dilemmas Each author has substantial experience in teaching, writing, and conducting research in the field.
• Titolo autorizzato: Business Ethics
• ISBN: 9781118722954; 9781118336687
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910795827003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II