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Title Business ethics : readings and cases in corporate morality / [edited by] W. Michael Hoffman, Robert E. Frederick
Edition Third edition
Published New York : McGraw-Hill, [1995]
©1995

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 MELB  174.4 Hof/Ber 1995  AVAILABLE
Description x, 629 pages ; 24 cm
Contents General Introduction: Ethical Frameworks for Application in Business -- Pt. 1. Ethics and Business: From Theory to Practice. 1. Theories of Economic Justice. Justice as Fairness / John Rawls. Distributive Justice / Robert Nozick. Distributive Justice and Utilitarianism / J. J. C. Smart. A Capitalist Conception of Justice / Irving Kristol. A Moral Case for Socialism / Kai Nielsen. 2. Ethics and Business Decision Making. Teaching Ethical Decision Making and Principled Reasoning / Michael Josephson. Ethical Decision Making in Business / Craig Dreilinger and Dan Rice. Attending to Ethics in Management / James A. Waters and Frederick Bird. Cost Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique / Steven Kelman. Cost-Benefit Analysis Defended / Herman B. Leonard and Richard J. Zeckhauser. AIDS and the Availability of AZT / Tom L. Beauchamp. Dorrence Corporation Trade-Offs / Hans A. Wolf. Why Should My Conscience Bother Me? / Kermit Vandivier -- Pt. 2. The Nature of the Corporation. 3. Legitimacy and Responsibility. The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase its Profits / Milton Friedman. Why Shouldn't Corporations Be Socially Responsible? / Christopher D. Stone. A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation: Kantian Capitalism / William M. Evan and R. Edward Freeman. The Social Contract: Norms for a Corporate Conscience / Thomas Donaldson. Private Corporations and Public Welfare / George G. Brenkert. 4. Identity and Agency. Can a Corporation Have a Conscience? / Kenneth E. Goodpaster and John B. Matthews, Jr. Corporate Moral Agency / Peter A. French. Corporate Moral Agency: The Case for Anthropological Bigotry / John R. Danley. 5. Governance and Structure. Who Rules the Corporation? / Ralph Nader, Mark Green and Joel Seligman. Power and Accountability: The Changing Role of the Corporate Board of Directors / Irving S. Shapiro. Who Should Control the Corporation? / Henry Mintzberg. Corporate Governance: Who Is in Control Here? / Dan R. Dalton. Moral Corporate Cultures in a Down-Sized, Restructured World / Anthony F. Buono. Tennessee Coal & Iron / John B. Matthews, Jr. Directorships of Major U.S. Corporations Tightly Interlocked, Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. Are Executive Pay Scales Off Balance? / Ralph V. Whitworth -- Pt. 3. Work in the Corporation. 6. Employee Rights and Duties. An Employee Bill of Rights / David Ewing. Is an Employee Bill of Rights Needed? / Donald L. Martin. Drug Testing in Employment / Joseph R. Des Jardins and Ronald Duska. Drug Testing in the Workplace: Whose Rights Take Precedence? / Michael Waldholz. The Right to Risk Information and the Right to Refuse Health Hazards in the Workplace / Ruth R. Faden and Tom L. Beauchamp. 7. Whistle Blowing. Whistle Blowing / Richard T. DeGeorge. Whistle Blowing: Its Moral Justification / Gene G. James. 8. Meaningful Work. Labor's Stake in Improving the Quality of Working Life / Irving Bluestone. The Circle Game / Mike Parker and Dwight Hansen. The Myth of Job Enrichment / Mitchell Fein. 9. The Modern Workplace: Transition to Equality and Diversity. Business and the Facts of Family Life / Fran Sussner Rodgers and Charles Rodgers. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace / Ellen Bravo and Ellen Cassedy. The Moral Status of Affirmative Action / Louis P. Pojman. What Is Wrong with Reverse Discrimination? / Edwin C. Hettinger. Women Cost a Company More - But Are Worth It / Felice N. Schwartz. From Affirmative Action to Affirming Diversity / R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. Landscape / Ernest Kallman and John Grillo. A Video Game That Tells if Employees Are Fit for Work / Joan O'C. Hamilton. Woman vs. Womb: Johnson Controls, Inc. / Ellen Goodman. Under a Civil Rights Cloud, Fetal Protection Looks Dismal: Johnson Controls, Inc. / Eric Felten. Whistle Blowing: GE's Drive to Purge Fraud Is Hampered by Workers' Mistrust / Amal Kumar Naj. The Case of the Mismanaged Ms. / Sally Seymour. The Case of the Unequal Opportunity / Mary C. Gentile -- Pt. 4. The Corporation in Society. 10. The Consumer. The Dependence Effect / John Kenneth Galbraith. The Non Sequitur of the "Dependence Effect" / F. A. von Hayek. Marketing Ethics: Some Dimensions of the Challenge / Paul F. Camenish. The Ethics of Marketing: Nestle's Infant Formula / James E. Post. A Moral Evaluation of Sales Practices / David M. Holley. Strict Products Liability and Compensatory Justice / George G. Brenkert. 11. The Environment. Morality, Money, and Motor Cars / Norman Bowie. Business and Environmental Ethics / W. Michael Hoffman. Environmental Pollution and the Law / Leonard G. Boonin. The Economic Common Sense of Pollution / Larry E. Ruff. At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic / Mark Sagoff. The Pollution of Environmental Theory / Michael Silverstein. Dilemmas of Disclosure: Ethical Issues in Environmental Auditing / Karen Blumenfeld. 12. International Business. Ethical Dilemmas for Multinational Enterprise: A Philosophical Overview / Richard T. De George. Moral Minimums for Multinationals / Thomas Donaldson. International Business, Morality, and the Common Good / Manuel Velasquez. International Business Ethics: Russia and Eastern Europe / Richard T. De George. The Moral Authority of Transnational Corporate Codes / William C. Frederick. What's Wrong with Bribery / Scott Turow. Ethics and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act / Mark Pastin and Michael Hooker. Bribery and Ethics: A Reply to Pastin and Hooker / Robert E. Frederick. Do Ads Lure Youngsters to Drink, Smoke? / Dolores Kong. The Ford Pinto / W. Michael Hoffman. Tropical Plywood Imports, Inc. / LaRue Tone Hosmer. U.S. and Mexico Confront Toxic Legacy / Colum Lynch. The Project at Moza Island / John A. Seeger and Balachandran Manyadath -- Pt. 5. The Future Corporate Ethos. 13. Reflections on the Moral Corporation. A Blueprint for Corporate Ethical Development / W. Michael Hoffman. The Many Faces of the Corporate Code / Lisa H. Newton. Can a Company Be Too Ethical? / Andrew W. Singer. New Directions in Corporate Social Responsibility / Norman Bowie. At Hughes Aircraft: A Hotline for All Seasons / Andrew W. Singer. Split Personality at Stride Rite / Joseph Pereira. The Case of the Environmental Impasse / Alissa Stern
Analysis Business Ethics
Notes Previous editions edited by W. Michael Hoffman and Jennifer Mills Moore
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 627-629)
Credits Previous editions edited by W. Michael Hoffman and Jennifer Mills Moore
Issuing Body Previous editions edited by W. Michael Hoffman and Jennifer Mills Moore
Subject Business ethics -- Case studies.
Business ethics.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Author Frederick, Robert.
Hoffman, W. Michael.
LC no. 94031960
ISBN 007029349X (alk. paper)