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Author Velasquez, Manuel G., author

Title Business ethics : concepts & cases / Manuel G. Velasquez (Santa Clara University)
Edition Seventh edition
Published Boston : Pearson Education, [2012]
Boston : Pearson, [2012]
©2012
©2012

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Description viii, 496 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Contents Ethics and business -- Ethical principles in business -- The business system : government, markets, and international trade -- Ethics in the marketplace -- Business and its external exchanges : ecology and consumers -- Ethics and the environment -- The ethics of consumer production and marketing -- Business and its internal constituencies -- The ethics of job discrimination
Summary Resolving Moral Issues in Business. The ethical landscape of business is constantly changing, and the new edition of Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases has been revised to keep pace with those changes most effecting business: accelerating globalization, constant technological updates, proliferating of business scandals. Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases introduces the reader to the ethical concepts that are relevant to resolving moral issues in business; imparts the reasoning and analytical skills needed to apply ethical concepts to business decisions; identifies moral issues specific to a business; provides an understanding of the social, technological, and natural environments within which moral issues in business arise; and supplies case studies of actual moral conflicts faced by businesses. Teaching and Learning Experience Personalize Learning - MyThinkingLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. Improve Critical Thinking - Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases provides summaries of basic ideas discussed within the text in its margins; presents conceptual materials first, and then offers discussion cases second through standardized chapters; all providing students the chance to critically think about the material they are learning. Engage Students - Study questions at the beginning of each chapter, definitions of key terms in the margins, a glossary, chapter-end study and discussion questions, end-of-chapter web resources, and chapter-opening concrete examples / cases all ensure students' complete understanding of the material. Support Instructors - Teaching your course just got easier! You can create a Customized Text or use our Instructor's Manual, Electronic “MyTest” Test Bank or PowerPoint Presentation Slides
Notes Previous ed.: c2006
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 458-487) and index
Subject Business ethics -- Case studies.
Business ethics.
Genre/Form Case studies.
LC no. 2011018696
ISBN 0205017665
9780205017669