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Title Honest work : a business ethics reader / [edited by] Joanne B. Ciulla, Clancy Martin, Robert C. Solomon.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  174.4 H756 2007    ---  Available
Description xxi, 659 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 1. Why we work : the meaning of work -- Introduction -- Box : Worthy work -- From curse to calling : a short history of the meaning of work / Joanne B. Ciulla -- Box : The noonday demon -- Hopping on and off career track / Michelle Quinn -- Cases -- Case 1.1 : The job interview / Sloan Wilson -- Case 1.2 : Less heat, more light / Nick Denton --
2. Promises and betrayals on the job : ethics in the workplace -- Introduction -- Respecting the humanity in a person / Norman E. Bowie -- Exploring the managed heart / Arlie Hochshild -- Box : Robert C. Solomon, The Passions -- Box : John Stuart Mill on the greatest good and expediency -- The employer-employee relationship and the right to know / Anita M. Superson -- The ethics of corporate downsizing / John Orlando -- Box : Ethical management of uncertain employment / Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- Anti-gay jokes / Annette Friskopp, Sharon Silverstein -- Box : More men are saying 'stop' -- Cases -- Case 2.1 : A 'state of the art' termination / John R. Boatright -- Case 2.2 : AIDS in the workplace / William H. Shaw, Vincent Barry -- Case 2.3 : Racial discrimination at Texaco / Kurt Eichenwald -- Case 2.4 : The energetic boss / Joanne B. Ciulla -- Case 2.5 : Does home life matter at work? / Joanne B. Ciulla -- Case 2.6 : Discrimination at Wal-Mart : unequal wages and opportunities -- Box : Sexual harassment guidelines -- Case 2.7 : Prejudice or preference? / Joanne B. Ciulla -- Case 2.8 : Attraction or business as usual? / Joanne B. Ciulla -- Case 2.9 : Innocent and dangerous / Joanne B. Ciulla --
3. The check is in the mail : honesty and trust in business -- Introduction -- Box : Aristotle, Kant, and Mill on honesty -- Is business bluffing ethical? / Albert Z. Carr -- Replies to Carr / Timothy B. Blodgett -- Box : Nietzsche on honesty -- Does it pay to bluff in business? / Norman E. Bowie -- Is it ever right to lie? / Robert C. Solomon -- Defining secrecy, some crucial distinctions / Sissela Bok -- Secrecy and disclosure / Richard T. De George -- Giving feedback : the consultant's craft / Sue De Wine -- Do management gurus lie? / Evan M. Dudick -- Self-deception / The Economist -- Lies that fail / Paul Ekman, Mark G. Frank -- Box : Transparency International, USA Program -- Building trust / Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores -- Cases -- Case 3.1 : Flying or lying in business class? / Robert C. Solomon -- Case 3.2 : Willful ignorance? Or deception? / Robert C. Solomon -- Case 3.3 : Blindsided by bankruptcy / Clancy Martin -- Case 3.4 : Testing for honesty / William H. Shaw, Vincent Barry -- Case 3.5 : The Columbia shuttle disaster : should we have told the astronauts the truth? / Margaret P. Battin, Gordon B. Mower --
4. The good life -- Introduction -- Strategic planning, for the good life / Robert C. Solomon -- On the good life / Aristotle -- Box : Adam Smith on capitalism -- On pleasure / Epicurus -- Wealth / Andrew Carnegie -- Greed / Solomon Schimmel -- Box : Labor Day, 2004 -- Leisure and consumption / Joanne B. Ciulla -- Box : In praise of idleness / Bertrand Russell -- Integrity / Lynne McFall -- Standing for something / Cheshire Calhoun -- Your money or your life / Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robin -- Impersonal interests / Bertrand Russell -- Why ethics? / Robert C. Solomon -- Cases -- Case 4.1 : The opportunist / James Fenimore Cooper -- Case 4.2 : The parable of the sadhu / Bowen H. McCoy -- Box : The happiness box -- Case 4.3 : A life badly lived / Arthur Miller -- Case 4.4 : Rags to riches to rags / Ruth Capriles --
5. Money, how we get it, and where it goes : accounting, finance and investment ethics -- Introduction -- Box : Accounting and mergers -- Ethical issues for accountants / Richard T. De George -- Box : Six principles of ethical accounting -- Lies, damned lies, and managed earnings / Carol J. Loomis -- Box : Learning to cheat? -- Box : Ethical decision making / PriceWaterhouseCooper -- Arthur Andersen refugees reflect on what went wrong / Ed Cohen -- Box : Before the whistle blew... / Sherron Watkins -- The individual investor in securities markets : an ethical analysis / Robert E. Frederick, W. Michael Hoffman -- Box : Dire consequences... -- Finance ethics / John R. Boatright -- Box : The wake-up call -- What is really unethical about insider trading? / Jennifer Moore -- Box : Ethics matter / Roel C. Campos -- F.I.A.S.C.O. / Frank Partnoy -- Box : Aristotle on money -- Cases -- Case 5.1 : A modern history of 'creative' accounting / The Democratic Policy Committee -- Case 5.2 : Merger mania / Lisa H. Newton, David P. Schmidt -- Case 5.3 : Annuities to seniors / Ron Duska -- Case 5.4 : An auditor's dilemma / John R. Boatright -- Case 5.5 : Enron and employee investment risk / David Lawrence, Tom L. Beauchamp --
6. Who gets what and why? Fairness and justice -- Introduction -- Box : Plato and Aristotle on justice -- Ring of Gyges / Plato -- Box : Would you rather earn more, or just more than the other fellow? -- On human exchange and human differences / Adam Smith -- A Latin viewpoint : the Bentonville menace / Latin Trade -- Exploitation of need / Joanne B. Ciulla -- Box : Marx on alienated labor -- Justice as fairness / John Rawls -- Rich and poor / Peter Singer -- A capitalist conception of justice / Irving Kristol -- Box : Executive compensation -- Justice ruins the market / Friedrich von Hayek -- The winner-take-all game / Eduard Garcia -- Comparable worth : a matter of simple justice / Gerald W. McEntee -- Cases -- Case 6.1 : Revolution without ideology / Naomi Klein -- Case 6.2 : Going down the road / Jim Hightower -- Case 6.3 : The problem with Dudley Less / Joanne B. Ciulla -- Case 6.4 : Overworked and ready to blow / Joanne B. Ciulla -- Case 6.5 : Poverty area plants / Rogene A. Buchholz -- Case 6.6 : Poverty in America / William H. Shaw, Vincent Barry -- Case 6.7 : Burger beefs / William H. Shaw, Vincent Barry -- Case 6.8 : Nike's suppliers in Vietnam / Sasha Lyutse --
7. Is "the social responsibility of business...to increase its profits"? Social responsibility and stakeholder theory -- Introduction -- The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits / Milton Friedman -- Why shouldn't corporations be socially responsible? / Christopher D. Stone -- Corporate moral agency / Peter A. French -- A stakeholder theory of the modern corporation / R. Edward Freeman -- Social responsibility and economic efficiency / Kenneth J. Arrow -- The changing basis of economic responsibility / J. Maurice Clark -- Cases -- Case 7.1 : Mondragon cooperatives / Ana G. Johnson, William F. Whyte -- Case 7.2 : Social audit / Rogene A. Buchholz -- Case 7.3 : The NYSEG corporate responsibility case / Kelly McDougall, Tom L. Beauchamp, John Cuddihy -- Case 7.4 : Beech-Nut's imitation apple juice / Thomas I. White -- Case 7.5 : Sentencing a corporation to prison / Thomas I. White --
8. When innovation bytes back : ethics and technology -- Introduction -- Box : Locke on property -- Intellectual property rights and computer software / Deborah C. Johnson -- Box : Seven theses for business ethics and the information age / Richard de George -- Box : Foucault and the Panopticon -- Information ethics in a worldwide context / Elizabeth A. Buchanan -- Hacker ethics / Deborah C. Johnson -- Box : Internet culture? / C. Kluckhorn -- Why the future doesn't need us / Bill Joy -- In defense of the naked mind / Theodore Roszak -- Cases -- Case 8.1 : Digital divide / Joel Rudinow, Anthony Graybosch -- Case 8.2 : Hacking into the space program / Joel Rudinow, Anthony Graybosch -- Case 8.3 : The I love you virus / Joel Rudinow, Anthony Graybosch -- Case 8.4 : Privacy pressures : the use of Web bugs at HomeConnection / Richard A. Spinello --
9. The art of seduction : the ethics of advertising, marketing, and sales -- Introduction -- The dependence effect / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Box : Plato on the danger of believing bad arguments -- The non sequitur of the 'dependence effect' / Friedrich von Hayek -- Advertising and behavior control / Robert L. Arrington -- The justification of advertising in a market economy / Alan Goldman -- The bribed soul / Leslie Savan -- Box : Conspicuous consumption -- The ethics of sales / Thomas L. Carson -- Box : Ask me no questions... -- Cases -- Case 9.1 : Toy wars / Manuel G. Velasquez -- Case 9.2 : Advertising at Better Foods / Rogene A. Buchholz -- Case 9.3 : Advertising's image of women / Joseph R. DesJardins, John J. McCall -- Case 9.4 : Hucksters in the classroom / William H. Shaw, Vincent Barry -- Case 9.5 : Marketing malt liquor / Tom L. Beauchamp, Norman E. Bowie --
10. Things fall apart : product liability and consumers -- Introduction -- Liability / Peter Huber -- Calculating risks : it's easier said than done / John Nesmith -- Box : What's risky? Chances of death? -- How we got into this mess / Stanley J. Modic -- Strict products liability and compensatory justice / George G. Brenkert -- Fear of living / Henry Fairlie -- Too many lawyers, too many suits / Warren E. Burger -- Pinto madness / Mark Dowie -- The Pinto case and the Rashamon effect / Patricia Werhane -- Cases -- Case 10.1 : The skateboard scare / William H. Shaw, Vincent Barry -- Case 10.2 : Aspartame : miracle sweetener or dangerous substance? / William H. Shaw, Vincent Barry -- Case 10.3 : Children and reasonably safe products / Joseph R. DesJardins, John J. McCall -- Case 10.4 : Living and dying with asbestos / William H. Shaw, Vincent Barry -- Case 10.5 : Merck and Vioxx / Kenneth B. Moll Associates --
11. You know how to whistle, don't you? Whistle-blowing, company loyalty, and employee responsibility -- Introduction -- Box : Martin Luther King on silence -- Whistleblowing and professional responsibility / Sissela Bok -- Box : Ralph Nader on whistle-blowing -- Some paradoxes of whistleblowing / Michael Davis -- Whistleblowing and employee loyalty / Ronald Duska -- Box : Secrecy and disclosure / Joseph Pulitzer -- Box : The upside of whistle-blowing / Jim Yardley -- Four concepts of loyalty / David E. Soles -- Box : Blind to earned loyalty -- Loyalty, corporations, and community / George D. Randels -- Cases -- Case 11.1 : The one successful business model / Sherron Watkins -- Case 11.2 : Would you blow the whistle on yourself? / Pat L. Burr -- Case 11.3 : Changing jobs and changing loyalties / William H. Shaw, Vincent Barry -- Case 11.4 : The greenhouse effect : putting the heat on Halliburton / David Margasak -- Case 11.5 : Whistleblowing at the phone company / Joseph R. DesJardins, John J. McCall --
12. Think local, act global : international business -- Introduction -- Jihad vs. McWorld / Benjamin Barber -- Box : Isaiah Berlin -- The Lexus and the olive tree / Thomas L. Friedman -- Trying out one's new sword / Mary Midgley -- The ethic of compassion / Dalai Lama -- Values in tension : ethics away from home / Thomas Donaldson -- Box : What do these values have in common? -- Doing business in dangerous places / The Economist -- United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Cases -- Case 12.1 : The oil rig / Joanne B. Ciulla -- Case 12.2 : Diller's dilemma : street children and substance abuse / Karen Marquis, Joanne B. Ciulla -- Case 12.3 : Foreign assignment / Thomas Dunfee, Diana Robertson -- Case 12.4 : The quandry at PureDrug / Karen Marquis, Joanne B. Ciulla -- Case 12.5 : The conflict at Lomatex Chemical / Karen Marquis -- Case 12.6 : Consulting for Jones and Jones Pharmaceutical / Kelly MacDougall, Tom L. Beauchamp --
13. Working with mother nature : environmental ethics and business ecology -- Introduction -- Box : Native American proverb -- At the shrine of Our Lady Fatima or why political questions are not all economic / Mark Sagoff -- Box : Ninth Annual National Report on environmental attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors / National Environmental Education and Training Foundation -- Box : Why he and the Earth are of one mind / Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce -- People or penguins / William F. Baxter -- Box : Pollution / Milton Friedman -- Morality, money, and motor cars / Norman E. Bowie -- Box : Vine Deloria on land as a commodity -- Box : Who owns the Earth? -- The place of nonhumans in environmental issues / Peter Singer -- Box : The tame land / Luther Standing Bear -- Rain-forest chic / Jon Entine -- Cases -- Case 13.1 : The ethics of dolphin-human interaction / Thomas I. White -- Case 13.2 : Made in the U.S.A, and dumped / William H. Shaw, Vincent Barry -- Case 13.3 : The Fordasaurus / William H. Shaw, Vincent Barry -- Case 13.4 : Texaco in the Ecuadorean Amazon / Thomas I. White --
14. The gift that keeps on asking : reciprocity and conflicts of interest -- Introduction -- Nepotism in American business / Adam Bellow -- A quick look at the history of bribes / John T. Noonan, Jr. -- Box : Havamal -- Ethics and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act / Mark Pastin, Michael Hooker -- Cases -- Case 14.1 : Family values at Adelphia / Barry Meier -- Case 14.2 : The Moza Island Project / Karen Marquis, Joanne B. Ciulla -- Case 14.3 : Personal luxury or family loyalty? / Motorola University --
15. When the buck stops here : leadership -- Introduction -- What is good leadership? / Joanne B. Ciulla -- Is it better to be loved than feared? / Niccolo Machiavelli -- Box : Lao o and Tao-te-ching -- The Bathsheba syndrome : the ethical failure of successful leaders / Dean C. Ludwig, Clinton O. Longnecker -- Box : Plato on why ethical people don't want to be leaders -- A Kantian theory of leadership / Norman E. Bowie -- What is transforming leadership? / James MacGregor Burns -- Servant leadership : a journey into the nature of legitimate power and greatness / Robert Greenleaf -- Cases -- Case 15.1 : Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- Case 15.2 : General Patton and the Sicilian slapping incident / Abraham Zeleznick -- Case 15.3 : Neutralizing 'Neutron Jack' / Alejo Jose G. Sison -- Case 15.4 : Aaron Feuerstein : not a fool, not a saint / Thomas Teal -- Case 15.5 : Merck and Roy Vagelos : the values of leaders / Joanne B. Ciulla -- Case 15.6 : Jack Stack / Kirk O. Hanson --
16. Who's minding the store? The ethics of corporate governance -- Introduction -- Who rules the corporation? / Ralph Nader, Mark Green, Joel Seligman -- Power and accountability : the changing role of the corporate board of directors / Irving S. Shapiro -- Box : Advice to corporate directors / Immanuel Kant -- Who should control the corporation? / Henry Mintzberg -- Box : Corporate-governance reform -- Employee voice in corporate governance : a defense of strong participation rights / John J. McCall -- Box : Does governance need government? -- Box : Advice to outside auditors / Warren Buffett -- Cases -- Case 16.1 : Selling your sole at Birkenstock / Michael Lewis -- Case 16.2 : The good old boys at WorldCom / Dennis Moberg, Edward Romar -- Case 16.3 : CEO compensation at Qwest / Sasha Lyutse --
17. Is everything for sale? The future of the free market -- Introduction -- Two kinds of commerce / Aristotle -- The benefits of capitalism / Adam Smith -- Adam Smith's relevance to contemporary economic theory / Patricia Werhane -- Commodity fetishism / Karl Marx -- Reflections on the triumph of capitalism / Robert Heilbroner -- Laissez-faire and education / John Stuart Mill -- Buddhist economics / E.F. Schumacher -- The economics of poverty / Amartya Sen -- Pecuniary emulation / Thorstein Veblen -- The cultural contradictions of capitalism / Daniel Bell -- Everything for sale / Robert Kuttner -- Cases -- Case 17.1 : Blood for sale / William H. Shaw, Vincent Barry -- Case 17.2 : Cocaine at the Fortune-500 level / Tom L. Beauchamp, Jeff Green, Sasha Lyutse.
Subject Business ethics.
Work -- Psychological aspects.
Work ethic.
Quality of work life.
Social justice.
Added Author Ciulla, Joanne B.
Martin, Clancy W.
Solomon, Robert C.
Added Title Business ethics reader
ISBN 0195161688 (pbk.)
9780195161687 (pbk.)

 
    
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