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Resolving Moral Issues in [...] ethical landscape of business is constantly changing, and the new edition of Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases has been revised to keep pace with those changes most effecting business: accelerating globalization, constant technological updates, proliferating of business scandals.Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases introduces the reader to the ethical concepts that are relevant to resolving moral issues in business; imparts the reasoning and analytical skills needed to apply ethical concepts to business decisions; identifies moral issues specific to a business; provides an understanding of the social, technological, and natural environments within which moral issues in business arise; and supplies case studies of actual moral conflicts faced by businesses.Teaching and Learning ExperiencePersonalize Learning - MyThinkingLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.Improve Critical Thinking - Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases provides summaries of basic ideas discussed within the text in its margins; presents conceptual materials first, and then offers discussion cases second through standardized chapters; all providing students the chance to critically think about the material they are learning.Engage Students - Study questions at the beginning of each chapter, definitions of key terms in the margins, a glossary, chapter-end study and discussion questions, end-of-chapter web resources, and chapter-opening concrete examples / cases all ensure students’ complete understanding of the material.Support Instructors - Teaching your course just got easier! You can create a Customized Text or use our Instructor’s Manual, Electronic “MyTest” Test Bank or PowerPoint Presentation [...]! Pearson's Reading Hour Program for InstructorsInterested in reviewing new and updated texts in Philosophy?Click on the below link to choose an electronic chapter to preview...Settle back, read, and receive a Penguin paperback for your [...]
Inhaltsverzeichnis

IN THIS SECTION:

1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Contents

Preface

PART ONE Basic Principles Chapter 1 Ethics and Business Chapter 2 Ethical Principles in Business PART TWO The Market and Business Chapter 3 The Business System: Government, Markets,Chapter 4 Ethics in the Marketplace PART THREE Business and Its External Exchanges:

Ecology and Consumers

Chapter 5 Ethics and the Environment Chapter 6 The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing PART FOUR Business and Its Internal Constituencies Chapter 7 The Ethics of Job Discrimination Chapter 8 Ethics and the Employee

Notes

Index

COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:

ContentsPreface

PART ONE Basic Principles Chapter 1 Ethics and Business

Introduction

1.1 The Nature of Business Ethics

ON THE EDGE: Was National Semiconductor Morally Responsible?

1.2 Ethical Issues in Business

ON THE EDGE: A Traditional Business

1.3 Moral Responsibility and Blame

ON THE EDGE: WorldCom’s Whistleblower

ON THE EDGE: Gun Manufacturers and Responsibility

CASES FOR DISCUSSION

Slavery in the Chocolate Industry

Aaron Beam and the HealthSouth Fraud

Chapter 2 Ethical Principles in Business

Introduction

2.1 Utilitarianism: Weighing Social Costs and Benefits

2.2 Rights and Duties

ON THE EDGE: Should Companies Dump Their Wastes In Poor

Countries?

ON THE EDGE: Working for Eli Lilly & Company

ON THE EDGE: Conflict Diamonds

ON THE EDGE: ExxonMobil, Amerada Hess, and Marathon Oil in

Equatorial Guinea

CASES FOR DISCUSSION

Traidos Bank and Roche’s Drug Trials in China

PART TWO The Market and Business Chapter 3 The Business System: Government, Markets,

and International Trade

Introduction

3.1 Free Markets and Rights: John Locke

3.2 Free Markets and Utility: Adam Smith

3.3 Free Trade and Utility: David Ricardo

3.4 Marx and Justice: Criticizing Markets and Free Trade

ON THE EDGE: Commodification or How Free Should Free Markets Be?

ON THE EDGE: Marx’s Children

3.5 Conclusion: The Mixed Economy, the New Property,

and the End of Marxism

ON THE EDGE: Napster’s Lost Revolution

ON THE EDGE: Brian’s Franchise

CASES FOR DISCUSSION

The GM Bailout

Accolade versus Sega

Chapter 4 Ethics in the Marketplace

Introduction

4.1 Perfect Competition

4.2 Monopoly Competition

ON THE EDGE: Drug Company Monopolies and Profits

4.3 Oligopolistic Competition

4.4 Oligopolies and Public Policy

ON THE EDGE: Fixing the Computer Memory Market

ON THE EDGE: Oracle and Peoplesoft

CASES FOR DISCUSSION

Intel’s “Rebates” and Other Ways It “Helped” Customers

Archer Daniels Midland and the Friendly Competitors

PART THREE Business and It
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 440 S.
ISBN-13: 9781292022819
ISBN-10: 1292022817
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Velasquez, Manuel
Velasquez, Manuel G.
Auflage: 7. Auflage
Hersteller: Pearson
Pearson Education Limited
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Pearson Studium im Verlag Pearson Benelux B.V. Zweigniederla, Sankt-Martin-Str. 82, D-81541 München, buchhandel@pearson.com
Maße: 276 x 216 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Manuel Velasquez (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.07.2013
Gewicht: 1,084 kg
Artikel-ID: 133052712

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