Business ethics

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Title:

Business ethics

Author:

Parboteeah, Praveen.

ISBN:

9780415893688

9780415893695

Personal Author:

Parboteeah, Praveen.

Publication Information:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 629 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Introduction -- 1.Introduction to Business Ethics -- What is Business Ethics? -- How Prevalent are Unethical Behaviors Worldwide? -- What are the Benefits of being Ethical? -- Approaches to Business Ethics -- What Business Ethics Issues do Companies Face? Plan of the Book -- Chapter Summary -- Brief Case: Anna Hazare and Corruption in India -- Long Case: An Analysis of Toyota Motor Company and its Recent Recalls -- 2.Stakeholders -- What are Stakeholders and why do they Matter? -- Stakeholder Categorization and Attributes -- Stakeholder Attributes: Power, Legitimacy, and Urgency -- Stakeholder Management -- Step 1 Stakeholder Identification -- Step 2 Stakeholder Prioritization -- Step 3 Stakeholder Visualization and Mapping -- Step 4 Stakeholder Engagement -- Step 5 Stakeholder Monitoring -- Stakeholder Importance Worldwide -- Chapter Summary -- Brief Case: Taiwan's Sun Moon Lake -- Long Case: Merck Co., Inc. --

Contents note continued: 3.Building Ethics at the Individual Level -- Moral Awareness -- Moral Judgment -- Cognitive Moral Development -- Moral Philosophies: Idealism and Relativism -- Ethical Theories -- Moral Disengagement and Biases -- Unconscious Biases -- Chapter Summary -- Brief Case: Raj Rajaratnam and Insider Trading -- Long Case: News Corporation -- Comprehensive Case: Satyam Computer Services Ltd. -- pt. II Stakeholders -- 4.Primary Stakeholders: Employees -- Hiring and Terminating of Employees -- Hiring, Recruitment, and Selection -- Terminating Employees -- Diversity and Affirmative Action -- Sexual Harassment -- Whistle-Blowing -- Strategic Role of Human Resource Management Enforcing Ethics -- Chapter Summary -- Brief Case: WalMart and Healthcare Benefits -- Long Case: The Marriott Corporation Human Resources Department -- 5.Primary Stakeholders: Customers -- Marketing -- Ethical Issues in Pricing -- Ethical Issues in Promotion --

Contents note continued: Other Ethically Sensitive Issues: Sexual Appeals and Marketing to Children -- Advertising to Vulnerable Groups: Children -- Product Safety -- Perspectives on Product Liability -- Privacy -- Ethical Rationales for Consumer Privacy -- Emerging Challenges -- Chapter Summary -- Brief Case: Profits and People in the Drug Industry -- Long Case: Mattel Recalls 2007 -- 6.Primary Stakeholders: Shareholders and Corporate Governance -- Types of Shareholders and Agency Theory -- Corporate Governance -- Board of Directors -- Executive Compensation -- Ownership Structure -- Corporate Governance and Globalization -- The Future of Corporate Governance -- Chapter Summary -- Brief Case: The Olympus Scandal -- Long Case: Hebei Dawu Group -- 7.Secondary Stakeholders: Government, Media, and Non-Governmental Organizations -- Government Regulation -- Government Regulation and Company Political Activity -- The Media -- Media Analysis and Business Ethics --

Contents note continued: Non-Governmental Organizations -- NGO Strategies -- NGO Management -- Chapter Summary -- Brief Case: Mercedes in China -- Long Case: Procter & Gamble Confrontation with Peta -- Comprehensive Case: Bristol-Myers Squibb -- pt. III The Environment -- 8.Information Technology and Ethics -- Social Media and Ethics -- Electronic Commerce and Ethics -- Customer Privacy -- E-Commerce Security -- E-Commerce Trust -- Other IT Ethics Issues -- Ethics and E-Commerce and the Global Digital Divide -- Electronic Waste -- Chapter Summary -- Brief Case: Alibaba.com and Online Fraud -- Long Case: Internet Censorship in China -- 9.The Environment and Sustainability -- Environmental Degradation -- Air Pollution -- Land Pollution -- Water Pollution -- Building the Environmentally Sustainable Company: A Strategic Approach -- Top Management Support -- Assessing Current Sustainability Situation -- Setting Sustainability Goals -- Reporting and Feedback -- Other Success Factors --

Contents note continued: Benefits of Sustainability -- Chapter Summary -- Brief Case: Unilever and Sustainability -- Long Case: Procter & Gamble -- 10.Global Ethics -- What is Global Business Ethics? -- What is the Nature of Differences in Ethics? -- Key Global Ethical Issues -- Labor Issues -- Bribery -- Multinational Ethics: Going Local or Global? -- What Can Multinationals do to Become More Ethical? -- Code of Ethics -- Whistle-Blowing -- Chapter Summary -- Brief Case: Ernst Lieb and Mercedes-Benz -- Long Case: Shell Oil in Nigeria -- Comprehensive Case: Why was the Snow Polluted? -- pt. IV Building the Ethical Company -- 11.Building Ethics at the Corporate Level: Managing the Ethical Climate -- An Overview of Ethical Climate -- An Ethical Climate Model -- Ethical Climate Types -- Organizational Climates and Ethical Culture -- Communicating the Desired Ethical Climate in Your Organizational Culture -- What do we Know About the Effects of Different Climate Types? --

Contents note continued: Thoughts on a Positive Work Climate -- Discovering your Ethical Climate -- Chapter Summary -- Brief Case: The Zappos Caring Culture and Climate -- Long Case: Citigroup: Restoring Ethics and Image before Growth -- 12.Corporate Social Responsibility -- A Brief History of Corporate Social Responsibility -- Strategic CSR -- CSR is Here and Going to Stay -- Strategic CSR Principles -- Reporting CSR -- What is in a CSR Report? -- Chapter Summary -- Brief Case: Novo Nordisk, the CSR Superstar -- Long Case: Barrick Gold Corporation, Tanzania -- Comprehensive Case: Tata Power.

Abstract:

This book provides a thorough review and analysis of business ethics issues using several learning tools. It have important applicable theories integrated with discussion of how such theories apply in practice. This text also provides a global perspective on business ethics. Successful ethical companies are the ones that can strategically balance the needs of their various stakeholders. By adopting this approach, students will be able to see how the various aspects of business ethics are connected. The text contains over 30 real world global cases. Each part in the book ends with a Comprehensive Case; proven teaching cases from The Ivey School and other sources.

Subject Term:

Business ethics.

Added Author:

Cullen, John B. (John Brooks), 1948-

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Business Ethics provides a thorough review and analysis of business ethics issues using several learning tools:

Strategic Stakeholder Management as the Theme: All chapters use a strategic stakeholder approach as a unifying theme. The text is thus the first text that adopts this approach. Most business ethics scholars and practitioners agree that successful ethical companies are the ones that can strategically balance the needs of their various stakeholders. By adopting this approach, students will be able to see how the various aspects of business ethics are connected.

Theory-based and Application-based: All chapters have important applicable theories integrated with discussion of how such theories apply in practice. Unlike other texts that are either too theoretical or too practical, this text provides the appropriate blend of theory and practice to provide deeper insights into the concepts covered in the chapter.

Global Perspective: Unless most other texts, this text provides a global perspective on business ethics. Most chapters include material pertaining to ethics in global contexts. Included are cases about companies in a wide range of countries including Japan, U.K., China and India among many others.

Cases: The text contains over 30 real world global cases . Each chapter ends with a short two page case as well as a longer case that varies in length. Each has discussions questions at the end. Finally each of the four parts ends with a Comprehensive Case; proven teaching cases from The Ivey School and other sources.