Business Ethics : Readings and Cases in Corporate Morality

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ISBN: 9780070293496 | 007029349X
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Contains balanced, point-counterpoint representations of the different perspectives on ethical issues in today's corporate world. Proposes to explore the moral dimension of business. Paper. DLC: Business ethics.

Preface
General Introduction: Ethical Frameworks for Application in Business	p. 1
Ethics and Business: From Theory to Practice	p. 43
Theories of Economic Justice	p. 51
Justice as Fairness	p. 51
Distributive Justice	p. 57
Distributive Justice and Utilitarianism	p. 64
A Capitalist Conception of Justice	p. 68
A Moral Case for Socialism	p. 73
Ethics and Business Decision Making	p. 81
Teaching Ethical Decision Making and Principled Reasoning	p. 81
Ethical Decision Making in Business	p. 89
Attending to Ethics in Management	p. 93
Cost Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique	p. 98
Cost-Benefit Analysis Defended	p. 105
Cases for Part 1
AIDS and the Availability of AZT	p. 109
Dorrence Corporation Trade-Offs	p. 114
Why Should My Conscience Bother Me?	p. 119
The Nature of the Corporation	p. 129
Legitimacy and Responsibility	p. 137
The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase its Profits	p. 137
Why Shouldn't Corporations Be Socially Responsible?	p. 141
A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation: Kantian Capitalism	p. 145
The Social Contract: Norms for a Corporate Conscience	p. 154
Private Corporations and Public Welfare	p. 157
Identity and Agency	p. 167
Can a Corporation Have a Conscience?	p. 167
Corporate Moral Agency	p. 176
Corporate Moral Agency: The Case for Anthropological Bigotry	p. 183
Governance and Structure	p. 190
Who Rules the Corporation?	p. 190
Power and Accountability: The Changing Role of the Corporate Board of Directors	p. 198
Who Should Control the Corporation?	p. 205
Corporate Governance: Who Is in Control Here?	p. 218
Moral Corporate Cultures in a Down-Sized, Restructured World	p. 226
Cases for Part 2
Tennessee Coal and Iron	p. 235
Directorships of Major U.S. Corporations Tightly Interlocked, Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs	p. 243
Are Executive Pay Scales Off Balance?	p. 245
Work in the Corporation	p. 249
Employee Rights and Duties	p. 257
An Employee Bill of Rights	p. 257
Is an Employee Bill of Rights Needed?	p. 263
Drug Testing in Employment	p. 266
Drug Testing in the Workplace: Whose Rights Take Precedence?	p. 273
The Right to Risk Information and the Right to Refuse Health Hazards in the Workplace	p. 275
Whistle Blowing	p. 283
Whistle Blowing	p. 283
Whistle Blowing: Its Moral Justification	p. 290
Meaningful Work	p. 302
Labor's Stake in Improving the Quality of Working Life	p. 302
The Circle Game	p. 307
The Myth of Job Enrichment	p. 313
The Modern Workplace: Transition to Equality and Diversity	p. 318
Business and the Facts of Family Life	p. 318
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace	p. 326
The Moral Status of Affirmative Action	p. 340
What Is Wrong with Reverse Discrimination?	p. 352
Women Cost a Company More - But Are Worth It	p. 360
From Affirmative Action to Affirming Diversity	p. 363
Cases for Part 3
Landscape	p. 373
A Video Game That Tells if Employees Are Fit for Work	p. 375
Woman vs. Womb: Johnson Controls, Inc.	p. 376
Under a Civil Rights Cloud, Fetal Protection Looks Dismal: Johnson Controls, Inc.	p. 377
Whistle Blowing: GE's Drive to Purge Fraud Is Hampered by Workers' Mistrust	p. 379
The Case of the Mismanaged Ms.	p. 383
The Case of the Unequal Opportunity	p. 389
The Corporation in Society	p. 395
The Consumer	p. 405
The Dependence Effect	p. 405
The Non Sequitur of the "Dependence Effect"	p. 409
Marketing Ethics: Some Dimensions of the Challenge	p. 412
The Ethics of Marketing: Nestle's Infant Formula	p. 416
A Moral Evaluation of Sales Practices	p. 422
Strict Products Liability and Compensatory Justice	p. 429
The Environment	p. 440
Morality, Money, and Motor Cars	p. 440
Business and Environmental Ethics	p. 446
Environmental Pollution and the Law	p. 455
The Economic Common Sense of Pollution	p. 458
At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic	p. 464
The Pollution of Environmental Theory	p. 472
Dilemmas of Disclosure: Ethical Issues in Environmental Auditing	p. 475
International Business	p. 487
Ethical Dilemmas for Multinational Enterprise: A Philosophical Overview	p. 487
Moral Minimums for Multinationals	p. 491
International Business, Morality, and the Common Good	p. 504
International Business Ethics: Russia and Eastern Europe	p. 514
The Moral Authority of Transnational Corporate Codes	p. 523
What's Wrong with Bribery	p. 536
Ethics and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act	p. 538
Bribery and Ethics: A Reply to Pastin and Hooker	p. 542
Cases for Part 4
Do Ads Lure Youngsters to Drink, Smoke?	p. 549
The Ford Pinto	p. 552
Tropical Plywood Imports, Inc.	p. 559
U.S. and Mexico Confront Toxic Legacy	p. 564
The Project at Moza Island	p. 566
The Future Corporate Ethos	p. 573
Reflections on the Moral Corporation	p. 577
A Blueprint for Corporate Ethical Development	p. 577
The Many Faces of the Corporate Code	p. 585
Can a Company Be Too Ethical?	p. 590
New Directions in Corporate Social Responsibility	p. 597
Cases for Part 5
At Hughes Aircraft: A Hotline for All Seasons	p. 609
Split Personality at Stride Rite	p. 612
The Case of the Environmental Impasse	p. 616
Bibliography	p. 627
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