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This Is Business Ethics - An Introduction

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Take a seat in the boardroom. What will you decide?
 
Corporations make difficult decisions about the right thing to do every day, but as an organization made up of people with different perspectives and values, how can a business behave ethically? This is Business Ethics offers a dynamic and engaging introduction to the study of corporate morality.
 
* Offers real-world practical advice for navigating ethical dilemmas in business, developed and explained through illustrative high-profile case studies like the Ford Pinto case, Enron, Walmart and British Petroleum.
* Explores how ethical theory informs business policy and practice.
* Presents unresolved contemporary case studies for consideration, inviting readers to participate in the decision-making and offer their own recommendations.
* The latest in the This is Philosophy series, This is Business Ethics features supplemental online resources for instructors and students at www.thisisphilosophy.com.

List of contents

Preface xii
 
Part I Problems in Business Ethics 1
 
1 Ethics: Doing the Right Thing 3
 
Introduction to Ethics 3
 
What are ethical questions 3
 
How to answer ethical questions 4
 
Introductory Case Studies 5
 
Sam and the substandard notes 5
 
Casey and the overly-demanding internship 6
 
Tatiana and the fair distribution of chores 7
 
Alex and the too-easy-to-cheat course 8
 
Evaluating the Case Studies 9
 
Non-ethical guidelines for thinking about the cases 9
 
Ethical guidelines for thinking about the cases 11
 
Limitations of ethical evaluation: the problem of controversy 12
 
Reference 13
 
2 Business: Maximizing Profit 14
 
Theory of the Firm 14
 
Firm organization 15
 
Why the firm exists at all 16
 
Problems for firm organization 17
 
Business Decision-Making: Shareholders and Cost-Benefit Analysis 17
 
The Dominant Model 19
 
Shareholder Theory 22
 
Cost-benefit analysis 25
 
Business in Society: Consumers, Employees, and Community 27
 
References and Further Reading 31
 
3 Classic Business Ethics Dilemmas: When Doing the Right Thing Does Not Maximize Profits 32
 
Doing Right by Consumers: The Ford Pinto Case 33
 
Doing Right by Employees: The Walmart Case 38
 
Doing Right by the Community: The B.P. Case 40
 
Doing Right by Shareholders: The Enron Case 42
 
References and Further Reading 46
 
Case Cited 46
 
Part II Tools to Solve Business Ethics Dilemmas 47
 
4 Ethical Theories 49
 
The Three Major Ethical Theories 51
 
Utility-based ethics 52
 
Kant's duty-based ethics 61
 
Aristotle's virtue-based ethics 67
 
Other Bases for Ethics 72
 
Natural law theory 72
 
Contract theory 73
 
Ethics of care 74
 
Feminist ethics 75
 
References and Further Reading 76
 
5 Theories of Corporate Personhood 77
 
Businesses as Ethical Persons 78
 
Businesses as Bureaucracies 83
 
Businesses as Collective Persons 87
 
References and Further Reading 91
 
6 Theories of Political Economy 92
 
Private Property 95
 
The justification of private property 96
 
Distributive justice 106
 
The Division of Labor 112
 
Smith's productivity-based defense of the division 112
 
Marx's alienation-based criticism of the division 115
 
References and Further Reading 118
 
Part III Contemporary Case Studies 119
 
7 Business Ethics in Employment 121
 
Employment at Will: The Bechtel Case 121
 
Bechtel's corporate identity 122
 
Facts of the case 122
 
What happened 124
 
Historical significance 124
 
Ethical significance: conditions of employment 125
 
Executive Compensation: The A.I.G. Case 130
 
A.I.G.'s corporate identity 131
 
Facts of the case 131
 
What happened 133
 
Historical significance 133
 
Ethical significance: executive compensation 134
 
Preventing Discrimination and Achieving Diversity: The Google Case 136
 
Google's corporate identity 137
 
Facts of the case 138
 
What happened 139
 
Ethical significance: unconscious bias 141
 
Work-Life Balance: The Amazon Case 143
 
Amazon's corporate identity 144
 
Facts of the case 144
 
What happened 145
 
Historical significance 146
 
Ethical significance: work-life balance 146
 
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About the author










TOBEY SCHARDING is Visiting Assistant Professor at Rutgers Business School and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in business ethics and ­finance ethics, with a focus on issues concerning risk and uncertainty. Her articles have appeared in leading academic journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly, Public Affairs Quarterly, and Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy.


Summary

Take a seat in the boardroom. What will you decide?

Corporations make difficult decisions about the right thing to do every day, but as an organization made up of people with different perspectives and values, how can a business behave ethically? This is Business Ethics offers a dynamic and engaging introduction to the study of corporate morality.

* Offers real-world practical advice for navigating ethical dilemmas in business, developed and explained through illustrative high-profile case studies like the Ford Pinto case, Enron, Walmart and British Petroleum.
* Explores how ethical theory informs business policy and practice.
* Presents unresolved contemporary case studies for consideration, inviting readers to participate in the decision-making and offer their own recommendations.
* The latest in the This is Philosophy series, This is Business Ethics features supplemental online resources for instructors and students at www.thisisphilosophy.com.

Product details

Authors T Scharding, Tobey Scharding
Publisher Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.05.2018
 
EAN 9781119055051
ISBN 978-1-119-05505-1
No. of pages 272
Series This is Philosophy
This is Philosophy
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management

Ethik, Wirtschaftsethik, Philosophie, Angewandte Ethik, Philosophy, Business & management, Business Ethics, Applied Ethics, Wirtschaft u. Management

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