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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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.
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Work -- Psychological aspects.
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Work ethic.
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Quality of work life.
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Social justice.
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Added Author |
Ciulla, Joanne B.
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Martin, Clancy W.
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Solomon, Robert C.
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Added Title |
Business ethics reader |
ISBN |
0195161688 (pbk.) |
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9780195161687 (pbk.) |
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