Synopses & Reviews
Business Ethics is a text in
Basic Ethics in Action, 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
Basic Ethics, 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).
In Business Ethics , Boylan presents a collection of readings that examine traditional issues within a pedagogical context of his worldview methodology.
Synopsis
In "Business Ethics," Boylan presents a collection of readings that examine traditional issues within a pedagogical context of his worldview methodology.
Synopsis
An introduction employing a worldview approach to the ethical issues that arise in the business world. The third title in the Basic Ethics in Action series, Business Ethics helps readers come to terms with their own ethical, aesthetic and religious values and subsequently react in a way that reflects those values. Covers all issues of professional practices with regard to competition, advertising, information technology, working conditions and affirmative action; gender issues; government regulation and the international marketplace. For professionals or others interested in defining, understanding and developing appropriate ethical standards in the workplace.
Table of Contents
(NOTES:
Most chapters begin with a general overview and all sections conclude with an "Evaluation of Case Studies.")
1. Introduction: Worldview and the Link to Moral Action.
2. Four Ethical Theories.
3. What Is a Corporation?
Can a Corporation Have a Conscience, Kenneth E. Goodpaster, John B. Matthews Jr. Corporations as Persons: Objections to Goodpaster's “Principle of Moral Projection,” Nani L. Ranken. The Corporation as a Moral Person, Peter A. French. Personalizing Corporate Ontology: The French Way, Thomas Donaldson. Business Ethics and Stakeholder Analysis, Kenneth E. Goodpaster. Stakeholders and Consent, Stephen Cohen.
4. What Are Proper Business Practices?
Focus: Ethics on Competition: Morality and Competitive Advantage, Alan Malachowski. The Principle of Fair Competition, Michael Boylan. In Defense of Advertising: A Social Perspective, Barbara J. Phillips. Accountability, Representation and Advertising, Geoffrey Sher, Michael Feinman. A Model to Explore the Ethics of Erotic Stimuli in Print Advertising, Tony L. Henthorne, Michael S. LaTour. Ethics and the Internet: Appropriate Behavior in Electronic Communication, Duncan Langford. Focus: Technology and Business Ethics Theory, Peter W.F. Davies. The Internet, Intel and the Vigilante Stakeholder, Joseph L. Badaracco Jr., Jerry V. Useem. Ethical Dilemmas in the Use of Information Technology: An Aristotelian Perspective, Michael D. Myers, Leigh Miller.
5. Ethical Issues Within the Corporation.
Of Acceptable Risk, William W. Lowrance. Working Conditions in Home Care: Negotiating Race and Class Boundaries in Gendered Work, Sheila M. Neysmith, Jane Aronson. Sneakers and Sweatshops: Holding Corporations Accountable, David M. Schilling. Preferential Hiring, Judith Jarvis Thomson. Preferential Hiring: A Reply to Judith Jarvis Thomson, Robert Simon. The Future of Affirmative Action, Michael Boylan. In Shouts and Whispers: Paradoxes Facing Women of Colour in Organizations, Rekha Karambyya. On the Persistence of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, S. Gayle Baugh. Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: A Needed Resource, Ronald J. Burke.
6. The Context of Business.
Focus: Ethics in Need of Regulation, Michael J. Clarke. Government Incentives for Corporate Self-Regulation, John C. Ruhuka, Heidi Boerstler. A Reflexive Model of Environmental Regulation, Eric W. Orts. Bribery, Michael Philips. Bribery and Implicit Agreements: A Reply to Philips, Thomas L. Carson. What's Wrong with Bribery, Scott Turow. Why an International Code of Business Ethics Would be Good for Business, Larry R. Smeltzer, Marianne M. Jennings. Focus: Aspects of Accountancy: The Ethics of Accounting Regulation—An International Perspective, John Blake, Julia Clarke, Catherine Gowthorpe. Ethics and International Development, Timothy K. Larrison.
Internet Resources.
Further Readings.
Acknowledgments.