An introduction to business ethics
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9789813150317
Category
ENTREP
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Publication Year
2008
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education, United States
Pages
x, 290 pages
Subject
Ethics
Tags
Abstract
The primary goal of this new edition is to update cases With more contemporary examples and to continue to revise the text for the sake of clarity and accessibility for students. To those ends, readers will note the following major changes for the fifth edition:
Every chapter begins with a new, or revised and updated, discussion case. Highlights include new cases on Goldman Sachs, the LIBOR banking scandal, Patagonia, and Chick-fil-A and same-sex marriage. Revised and updated cases include new discussions on Walmart and bribery in Mexico, Apple and Foxconn in China, executive compensation, conflicts of interest at Goldman Sachs, and employee privacy.
A revised discussion of ethical theory that reemphasizes philosophical jargon (readers will no longer see the word "deontological" for example!). The new discussion introduces ethics as involving frameworks and patterns of reasoning rather than as "theories" and substitutes a discussion of ethical principles, rights, and duties for the former section on deontological ethics.
As always, a new edition provides an opportunity to not only update material, but to present it in a more accessible style. It has been gratifying to learn that readers have found the book clearly written and accessible to students unfamiliar With the field. In continuing to strive for these goals, the author have rewritten some sections, deleted some outdated cases and dated material, and worked to improve the clarity of the more philosophical sections.
Readers of previous editions will find & familiar format. Each chapter begins With a discussion case developed from actual events. The intent of these cases is to raise questions and get students thinking and talking about the ethical issues that will be introduced in the chapter. The text of each chapter then tries to do three things:
- Identify and explain the ethical issues involved;
- Direct students to an examination of these issues from the points of view of various stakeholders; and
- Lead students through some initial steps of a philosophical analysis of these issues.
The emphasis remains on encouraging student thinking, reasoning, and decision making rather than on providing answers or promoting a specific set of conclusions. To this end, a section on ethical decision making at the end of chapter 1 provides one model for decision making that might prove useful throughout the remainder of the text.
Every chapter begins with a new, or revised and updated, discussion case. Highlights include new cases on Goldman Sachs, the LIBOR banking scandal, Patagonia, and Chick-fil-A and same-sex marriage. Revised and updated cases include new discussions on Walmart and bribery in Mexico, Apple and Foxconn in China, executive compensation, conflicts of interest at Goldman Sachs, and employee privacy.
A revised discussion of ethical theory that reemphasizes philosophical jargon (readers will no longer see the word "deontological" for example!). The new discussion introduces ethics as involving frameworks and patterns of reasoning rather than as "theories" and substitutes a discussion of ethical principles, rights, and duties for the former section on deontological ethics.
As always, a new edition provides an opportunity to not only update material, but to present it in a more accessible style. It has been gratifying to learn that readers have found the book clearly written and accessible to students unfamiliar With the field. In continuing to strive for these goals, the author have rewritten some sections, deleted some outdated cases and dated material, and worked to improve the clarity of the more philosophical sections.
Readers of previous editions will find & familiar format. Each chapter begins With a discussion case developed from actual events. The intent of these cases is to raise questions and get students thinking and talking about the ethical issues that will be introduced in the chapter. The text of each chapter then tries to do three things:
- Identify and explain the ethical issues involved;
- Direct students to an examination of these issues from the points of view of various stakeholders; and
- Lead students through some initial steps of a philosophical analysis of these issues.
The emphasis remains on encouraging student thinking, reasoning, and decision making rather than on providing answers or promoting a specific set of conclusions. To this end, a section on ethical decision making at the end of chapter 1 provides one model for decision making that might prove useful throughout the remainder of the text.
Description
Illustration ; Newsprint ; 23 cm
Includes index
Includes index
Number of Copies
5
