Business Ethics : Readings and Cases in Corporate Morality |
Autore | Hoffman W. Michael |
Edizione | [5th ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (774 pages) |
Disciplina | 174.4 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
FrederickRobert E
SchwartzMark S |
Soggetto topico |
Business ethics -- Case studies
Business ethics Ethics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9781118722954
9781118336687 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795827003321 |
Hoffman W. Michael | ||
Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Business Ethics : Readings and Cases in Corporate Morality |
Autore | Hoffman W. Michael |
Edizione | [5th ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (774 pages) |
Disciplina | 174.4 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
FrederickRobert E
SchwartzMark S |
Soggetto topico |
Business ethics -- Case studies
Business ethics Ethics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9781118722954
9781118336687 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808991003321 |
Hoffman W. Michael | ||
Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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