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Business in Ethical Focus is a compilation of classical and contemporary essays on business ethics. Approximately 50 essays are organized into five units: Corporate Social Responsibility; Rights and Obligations of Employees and Employers; Justice and Fair Practice; Distributive Justice; and Advertising, Marketing, and the Consumer.
Readers will become acquainted with seminal ideas from important thinkers such as Milton Friedman on corporate social responsibility and Amartya Sen on whether business ethics makes economic sense. They will also find classic readings on distributive justice by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Karl Marx, John Rawls, and Robert Nozick. Other topics include drug testing, sexual harassment, environmental responsibility, bribery, and ethical issues in advertising and marketing.
The editors provide thoughtful commentary, case studies, and study questions for each unit, enabling readers to clearly understand the growing discipline of business ethics.
Contents
Preliminaries: Why Study Business Ethics?
Anand Vaidya and Fritz Allhoff, "Volume Introduction"
Foundational Issues
Anand Jayprakash Vaidya, "Ill-Founded Criticisms of Business Ethics"
Amartya Sen, "Does Business Ethics Make Economic Sense?"
Systems of Moral Evaluation
Heather Salazar, "Kantian Business Ethics"
Rita C. Manning, "Caring as an Ethical Perspective"
Karin Brown, "Buddhist Ethics"
Richard M. Glatz, "Aristotelian Virtue Ethics and the Recommendations of Morality"
David Meeler, "Utilitarianism"
Unit 1: Corporate Social Responsibility
Anand Vaidya, "Corporate Social Responsibility"
The Central Debate
Milton Friedman, "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits"
R. Edward Freeman, "A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation"
John Hasnas, "The Normative Theories of Business Ethics: A Guide for the Perplexed"
George G. Brenkert, "Private Corporations and Public Welfare"
Joseph Heath, "Business Ethics Without Stakeholders"
Globalization and Its Ethical Significance
Thomas Donaldson, "The Ethics of Risk in the Global Economy"
Manuel Velasquez, "International Business, Morality, and the Common Good"
Ian Maitland, "The Great Non-Debate Over International Sweatshops"
Thomas Donaldson, "Values in Tension: Ethics Away from Home"
Don Mayer and Anita Cava, "Ethics and the Gender Equality Dilemma for US Multinationals"
Environmental Responsibility
Mark Sagoff, "At the Monument to General Meade, or On the Difference Between Beliefs and Benefits"
Kristin Shrader-Frechette, "A Defense of Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis"
Deborah C. Poff, "Reconciling the Irreconcilable: The Global Economy and the Environment"
Tibor R. Machan, "Environmentalism Humanized"
Case Study 1: Actions Speak Louder than Words: Rebuilding Malden Mills
Case Study 2: Charity Begins at Home: Nepotism
Unit 2: Rights and Obligations of Employees and Employers
Anand Vaidya, "Rights and Obligations of Employees and Employers"
Employment at Will
Patricia H. Werhane and Tara J. Radin, "Employment at Will and Due Process"
Richard A. Epstein, "In Defense of the Contract at Will"
Whistleblowing
Richard T. De George, "Whistleblowing"
Robert A. Larmer, "Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty"
Drug Testing
Joseph DesJardins and Ronald Duska, "Drug Testing in Employment"
Michael Cranford, "Drug Testing and the Right to Privacy: Arguing the Ethics of Workplace Drug Testing"
Safety in the Workplace
Anita M. Superson, "The Employer-Employee Relationship and the Right to Know"
Tibor R. Machan, "Human Rights, Workers' Rights, and the 'Right' to Occupational Safety"
Case Study 3: Lifestyles and Your Livelihood: Getting Fired in America
Case Study 4: E-Mail and Privacy: A Novel Approach
Unit 3: Justice and Fair Practice
Anand Vaidya, "Justice and Fair Practice"
Affirmative Action
Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC, 497 U.S. 547 (1990)
Edwin C. Hettinger, "What Is Wrong with Reverse Discrimination?"
Louis P. Pojman, "The Moral Status of Affirmative Action"
Sexual Harassment
Edmund Wall, "The Definition of Sexual Harassment"
Anita M. Superson, "A Feminist Definition of Sexual Harassment"
Stephen Griffith, "Sexual Harassment and the Rights of the Accused"
Bluffing in Business
Albert Z. Carr, "Is Business Bluffing Ethical?"
Thomas Carson, "Second Thoughts about Bluffing"
Fritz Allhoff, "Business Bluffing Reconsidered"
Bribery and Exploitation
Bill Shaw, "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: A Legal and Moral Analysis"
Jeffrey A. Fadiman, "A Traveler's Guide to Gifts and Bribes"
Case Study 5: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Case Study 6: The Ethics of Bluffing: Oracle's Takeover of PeopleSoft
Unit 4 Distributive Justice
Fritz Allhoff, "Distributive Justice"
Classical Theories of Contracts, Property, and Capitalism
Thomas Hobbes, Excerpts from Leviathan
John Locke, Excerpts from The Second Treatise of Human Government
Adam Smith, Excerpts from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Karl Marx, "Estranged Labor"
Contemporary Theories of Distribution and Property
John Rawls, Excerpts from A Theory of Justice
Robert Nozick, Excerpts from Anarchy, State and Utopia
Kai Nielsen, "A Moral Case for Socialism"
G.A. Cohen, "Illusions About Private Property and Freedom"
Intellectual Property
Edwin C. Hettinger, "Justifying Intellectual Property"
Lynn Sharp Paine, "Trade Secrets and the Justification of Intellectual Property: A Comment on Hettinger"
Case Study 7: Intellectual Property Across National Borders
Case Study 8: Copy That, Red Leader: Is File-Sharing Piracy?
Unit 5 Advertising, Marketing, and the Consumer
Anand Vaidya, "Advertising, Marketing, and the Consumer"
Truth and Deception in Advertising
Tibor R. Machan, "Advertising: The Whole Truth or Only Some of the Truth?"
John Waide, "The Making of Self and World in Advertising"
Creation of Desire in Advertising
Roger Crisp, "Persuasive Advertising, Autonomy, and the Creation of Desire"
Robert L. Arrington, "Advertising and Behavior Control"
Is Targeting Ethical?
Lynn Sharp Paine, "Children as Consumers: An Ethical Evaluation of Children's Television Advertising"
George G. Brenkert, "Marketing to Inner-City Blacks: PowerMaster and Moral Responsibility"
Case Study 9: Nestlé and Advertising: An Ethical Analysis
Case Study 10: Children and Targeting: Is it Ethical?
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