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Business Ethics, Sixth Edition

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Author(s): Richard T. De George - University of Kansas

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For courses in Business Ethics, Moral Issues in Business, Social Issues in Business, Business and Society, International Business Ethics, and Issues in International Business.

This systematic, integrated investigation of the field of business ethics is presented from an informed philosophical point of view. It argues that ethics is the glue as well as the oil that makes business possible, addressing the full gamut of issues: from such macro considerations as the moral justification of economic systems to such micro issues as proper computer use by employees.

Preface, xi

Introduction, 1

1. Ethics and Business, 3

Horatio Alger and Stock Options, 3

The Myth of Amoral Business, 5

The American Business Value System, 8

The Relation of Business and Morality, 11

Business Ethics and Ethics, 17

Study Questions, 28

Moral Reasoning in Business, 30

2. Conventional Morality and Ethical Relativism, 33

The Levels of Moral Development, 34

Subjective and Objective Morality, 37

Descriptive Relativism, 39

Normative Ethical Relativism, 41

Moral Absolutism, 45

Moral Pluralism, 46

Pluralism and American Business, 47

Pluralism and International Business, 48

Approaches to Ethical Theory, 49

Study Questions, 53

3. Utility and Utilitarianism, 55

Utilitarianism, 55

Act and Rule Utilitarianism, 60

Objections to Utilitarianism, 63

Utilitarianism and Justice, 65

Applying Utilitarianism, 67

Utilitarianism and Bribery, 70

Study Questions, 74

4. Moral Duty, Rights, and Justice, 76

Deontological Approaches to Ethics, 77

Judeo-Christian Morality, 78

Reason, Duty, and the Moral Law, 80

Application of the Moral Law, 86

Imperfect Duties, Special Obligations, and Moral Ideals, 89

Rights and Justice, 94

Study Questions, 103

5. Virtue, Moral Responsibility, and Moral Reasoning, 105

Virtue, 106

Moral Responsibility, 111

Excusing Conditions, 113

Liability and Accountability, 117

Agent and Role Moral Responsibility, 119

Applying Moral Reasoning, 121

Study Questions, 126

Moral Issues in Business, 127

6. Justice and Economic Systems, 129

Moral Evaluation of Economic Systems, 130

Moral Evaluation of Contemporary Systems, 134

Economic Models and Games, 136

A Capitalist Model, 137

Capitalism and Government, 142

A Socialist Model, 146

Comparison of Models and Systems, 148

Economic Systems and Justice, 149

Study Questions, 151

7. American Capitalism: Moral or Immoral?, 153

The American Economic System, 155

Relation of the American Government to the American Economic System, 157

The Marxist Critique, 161

Non-Marxist Moral Critiques of American Capitalism, 166

The Moral Defense of the American Free-Enterprise System, 169

Non-Socialist Alternatives to Contemporary American Capitalism, 173

Study Questions, 178

8. Corporations and Morality, 180

The Moral Status of Corporations and Formal Organizations, 183

Concept of the Corporation: Shareholder versus Stakeholder, 188

Moral Responsibility Within the Corporation, 191

Morality and the Social Audit, 197

Corporate Codes, 206

Corporate Culture and Moral Firms, 207

Study Questions, 209

9. Corporate Governance, Accounting, Disclosure and Insider Trading, 211

Corporate Governance, 214

Accounting, 219

Corporate Disclosure, 225

Insider Trading, 233

Study Questions, 243

10. Finance, Restructuring, and Investing, 245

Finance and Banking, 247

Corporate Takeovers and Restructuring, 253

Ethical Investing, 265

Study Questions, 273

11. Safety, Risk, and Environmental Protection, 275

Corporations, Products, and Services, 277

Do No Harm, 278

Safety and Acceptable Risk, 279

Product Safety and Corporate Liability, 282

Strict Liability, 284

Production Safety, 286

Environmental Harm, 288

Pollution and Its Control, 290

Study Questions, 296

12. Whistle Blowing, 298

Blowing the Whistle, 299

Kinds of Whistle Blowing, 300

Whistle Blowing as Morally Prohibited, 304

Whistle Blowing as Morally Permitted, 307

Whistle Blowing as Morally Required, 312

Internal Whistle Blowing, 315

Precluding the Need for Whistle Blowing, 319

Study Questions, 321

13. Marketing, Truth, and Advertising, 323

Marketing, 325

Advertising, 336

Truth and Advertising, 338

Manipulation and Coercion, 342

Paternalism and Advertising, 345

Prevention of Advertising, 347

Allocation of Moral Responsibility in Advertising, 348

Study Questions, 351

14. Workers’ Rights: Employment, Wages, and Unions, 353

Employment-at-Will, 355

The Right to Employment, 357

The Right to a Just Wage, 363

Comparable Worth, 369

Executive Compensation, 371

The Right to Organize: Unions, 375

The Right to Strike, 378

Study Questions, 384

15. Workers’ Rights and Duties Within a Firm, 387

The Rights of Employees Within a Firm, 391

Rights in Hiring, Promotion, and Firing, 392

Employee Civil Rights and Equal Treatment, 396

Privacy, Polygraphs, and Drugs, 399

Quality of Work Life, 406

Employee Duties, 410

Worker Loyalty and Obedience, 411

Study Questions, 415

16. Discrimination, Affirmative Action, and Reverse Discrimination, 417

Discrimination, 420

Changing Social Structures, 426

Equal Employment Opportunity, 428

Affirmative Action, 430

Reverse Discrimination, 434

Balanced or Preferential Hiring, 436

Two Cases: Weber and Stotts, 441

Study Questions, 445

17. The Information Age: Property and New Technologies, 447

Intellectual Property, 451

Industrial Espionage, 462

Property: Information and Software, 463

Study Questions, 476

18. Information, Computers, the Internet and Business, 478

Business and Computers, 480

Computer Crime, 480

Computers and Corporate Responsibility, 487

Computers and Privacy, 490

The Changing Nature of Work, 500

Study Questions, 504

Moral Issues in International Business, 506

19. The International Business System, Multinationals, and Globalization, 509

Morality and the International Economic System, 511

Multinational Corporations and Ethics, 514

Ethical Guidelines for Multinational Operations, 521

Multinationals and Human Rights, 523

The Transfer of Dangerous Industries to Underdeveloped Countries, 525

International Codes, 532

The Globalization of Business, 537

American Outsourcing and International Business, 541

Study Questions, 543

20. Corrupt Contexts and International Business, 546

The Case of General Motors and Apartheid, 548

U.S. Multinationals in South Africa, 550

The Lessons of Business in South Africa, 553

Bribery and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 554

International Business in Unsettled Contexts, 556

International Industrial Espionage, Discrimination, and Questionable Products, 562

Operating in Destabilized Environments, 566

Child Labor and Sweatshops, 569

International Business in Different Cultures: Japan, 573

Cross-Cultural Judgments, Negotiation, and International Justice, 574

Study Questions, 578

21. Global Issues and International Obligations, 580

Global Issues, 583

Famine, Malnutrition, and Moral Obligation, 584

Property and Allocation of the World’s Resources, 592

Global Common Goods, 600

Oil and the Depletion of Natural Resources, 601

Study Questions, 608

Conclusion, 611

22. The New Moral Imperative for Business, 613

The Changing Business Mandate, 615

The Role of Government, 620

Corporate Democracy and the New Entrepreneur, 622

Building a Good Society, 624

Study Questions, 626

Index, I-1-1

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Business Ethics, Sixth Edition

ISBN-13: 978-0-13-099163-8 See more

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