Business ethics in Business & Economics Books

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Since its inception <i>An Introduction to Business Ethics, by Joseph Desjardins</i> has been a cutting-edge resource for the business ethics course. Desjardin's unique approach encompasses all that an introductory business ethics course is, from a multidisciplinary perspective. It offers critical analysis and integrated perspective of philosophy with management, law, economics, and public policy.

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<P ALIGN="left"><STRONG>The Ivey Casebooks Series</STRONG> is a co-publishing partnership between SAGE Publications and the Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario. Due to their popularity in more than 60 countries, approximately 200 new cases are added to the Ivey School of Business library each year. <BR><BR>Each of the casebooks comes equipped with instructor's resources on CD-ROM.&nbsp; These affordable collections will not only help students connect to real-world situations, but will benefit corporations seeking continued education in the field as well.&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR><BR><STRONG>Cases in Business Ethics</STRONG> provides the opportunity for students not only to discuss the application of ethical theories in managerial situations, but also to apply judgment and make decisions in a real-world context. This collection of cases focuses on business decision- making, and includes both short and long, more complex cases that highlight the practicalities of business practice and ethical theory. A beneficial feature of <STRONG>Cases in Business Ethics</STRONG> is the variety of ways in which the cases can be organized to fit the course curriculum.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR><BR><STRONG><U>The IVEY Casebook Series<BR></U></STRONG>Cases in Business Ethics<BR>Cases in Entrepreneurship<BR>Cases in Gender &amp; Diversity in Organizations<BR>Cases in Operations Management<BR>Cases in Organizational Behavior<BR>Cases in the Environment of Business<BR></P>

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This book provides a distinctive and wide-ranging introduction to business ethics. It applies the essential features of Kantian moral philosophy to the business firm by asking how a business firm in a capitalist economy should be structured and managed according to the principles of Kantian ethics. Business Ethics spells out the implications of Kant's ethics for business practice. It is essential reading for anyone with an academic or professional interest in business ethics today.

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Can a corporation have a conscience? What is wrong with reverse discrimination? Can ethical management and managed care coexist? Hoffman, Frederick, and Schwartz address these and many other current, intriguing, often complex issues in corporate morality. This introductory business ethics text contains a thorough general introduction on ethical theory, 54 readings, and 25 cases. Divided into five parts, each with an introduction that presents the major themes of its articles and cases, the text contains an impartial, point-counterpoint presentation of different perspectives on the most important issues being debated in business ethics. Each chapter ends with questions that can be used for student discussion, review, tests/quizzes, or for student assignments. The fourth edition has 27 new readings, 15 new cases, and 10 new mini-cases.

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<P> M. Neil Browne, Andrea Giampetro-Meyer, and Carrie Williamson have written a lively, straightforward book showing people how to be ethical in business. It contains a commonsense, practical approach to doing good work-emphasizing the need for people to prepare in advance for ethical dilemmas. The authors take an honest, realistic view of how managers can help improve ethical behavior in the rushed, output-driven business environment. </P> <H3>Important features of <I>Practical Business Ethics for the Busy Manager.</I></H3> <UL> <LI><B>A practical perspective.</B><BR> - Makes text concepts and ethical principles something people can apply to their lives.</LI> <LI><B>Student-friendly writing style.</B><BR> - Saves the formal theories for an appendix in Chapter 4.<BR> - Enables students to easily understand learned concepts throughout the text.</LI> <LI><B>Global boxes.</B><BR> - Provides students with international examples of business ethics and essential information for today's global business manager.</LI> </UL>

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Unique in both perspective and approach, this is the first book to use classical American pragmatism as an ethical framework for dealing with ethical issues in business. The book first explores ethical theory from both the traditional and pragmatic perspectives. Then, using the pragmatic perspective, discusses the nature of the corporation and its relationship to society, the various environments in which business functions, and specific issues in the contemporary marketplace and workplace.

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In today's business climate, firms need to be wary of practices that may provoke criticism and scandals. Investigative reporters, eager lawyers, and zealous governmental agencies are lurking in the wings. These lessons of the past give you an inside look at some of the biggest mistakes of recent history. You can ponder not only how they might have been avoided, but also how their resolution might have been better handled. Robert Hartley, author of the popular Marketing and Management Mistakes and Successes books, brings you face-to-face with major players and the temptations, crises, and torments they experienced. Thought-provoking discussion questions, role-playing exercises, and debates present you with key ethical concerns that may help you avoid similar situations in your own career.

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Laura Hartman's: Perspectives in Business Ethics offers a foundation in ethical thought, followed by a variety of perspectives on difficult ethical dilemmas in both the personal and professional context. This anthology encourages the reader to "critically evaluate each perspective using his or her own personal ethical theory base." Instructors who favor an interactive, discussion-oriented approach to the ethics course will appreciate the different perspectives offered by the Hartman text. This book incorporates the traditional text with definitions and explanations, and combines it with short and long cases, reprints of both traditional and innovative articles, and nontraditional materials such as song lyrics, excerpts from classical literature, and short stories. This text focuses on involving as many views as possible in ethical situations or decisions.

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This text moves beyond the scope of prescriptive individual ethical decision making, to examine how managers and organizations influence ethical decision-making and behavior. It helps readers understand why people behave the way they do, and how managers and corporations can positively influence the behavior of employees and improve the ethical decision-making capabilities of their employees. Throughout, the emphasis is on common, real-life work situations, including hiring, managing, assessing performance, disciplining, firing, and providing incentives for staff, as well as producing quality products and services, and dealing effectively and fairly with customers, vendors, and other stakeholders.

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<i>Business Ethics</i> offers a structured set of readings with a clear conceptual progression; classic and current topics; and issues that matter to students. But that's not all: The instructor's resource CD-ROM contains lesson plans, and discussion, essay and multi-choice questions for <i>every</i> reading. A dedicated web site, designed by Dr. Gibson, also allows students access to further research and exploration into their own interests. The cases -- linked directly to the readings -- are deliberately short and provocative, challenging students to take and defend their own ethical analysis.

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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" soNormal><B> </B>This interesting, comprehensive book about business ethics argues that ethics is the ?glue' that makes successful business possible. It allows the reader to see the whole range of issues in business ethics rather than just selected topics. Its focus on internationalization and globalization is important, as it relates facts about this dynamic, growing aspect of corporate business. <B></B> This book not only covers ethics, it also includes such topics as: management, production, marketing, finance, workers' rights, and environmental issues; it enables readers to see how all of the issues presented are interrelated. <B></B> An excellent resource and reference work for international corporate employees, marketing administrators, and human resource managers and employees.</P>

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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN BUSINESS ETHICS approaches business ethics from a social and political perspective, asking students to consider the proper place of business in society, particularly as played out through the tension between strategies that rely on market mechanisms and strategies aimed at protecting individual rights. This book focuses on the rights and responsibilities of employees, laying out a rigorous discussion of economic markets and a close philosophical analysis of ethical theories in the context of contemporary business responsibility. While often neglected in other texts, this focus remains an extremely relevant area of business ethics for today's students as they prepare for their careers in an ever-competitive workplace. This text's mix of readings, text, case studies, and decision scenarios has proven its accessibility across a wide range of student interests and abilities.

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<P><I><B>Business Ethics</B></I> is a text in <I>Basic Ethics in Action</I>, a major new series undertaken by Prentice Hall under the general editorship of Michael Boylan. Books in the series will examine issues in normative and applied ethics from a holistic, worldview perspective. This series will feature texts that examine general issues as well as those more closely aligned to business ethics, medical ethics, environmental ethics, and professional ethics. The anchor volume to this series is <I>Basic Ethics</I>, a text that presents an evaluation of the major ethical theories through a novel critical device based on personal worldview (a compendium of the facts and values that guide our lives).</P> <P>In <I><B>Business Ethics</B></I>, Boylan presents a collection of readings that examine traditional issues within a pedagogical context of his worldview methodology.</P>

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Business ethicist Thomas Donaldson offers three concepts for interpreting international business ethics: a social contract between productive organizations and society, the notion of a fundamental international right, promulgated by ten specific international rights, and a moral 'algorithm' to help multinational managers make tradeoffs between conflicting norms in home and host countries.

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