Business Ethics Case Studies and Selected Readings,9780324110807

Business Ethics Case Studies and Selected Readings

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780324110807
ISBN10: 0324110804
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-07-01
Publisher(s): South-Western College/West
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Summary

Designed as a business ethics text for use in management or business law courses that use a case study approach, this text provides real-life examples of ethical dilemmas, poor ethical choices, and wise ethical decisions from newspapers, business journals and the author's experiences as a consultant and board member. This text not only assists in fulfilling the AACSB's curriculum requirement but exposes students to a critical issue - the strong sense of values that is essential to principled and successful leadership in the business world.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction xiii
UNIT 1 Foundations of Business Ethics: Virtue, Values, and Business 1(38)
Defining Business Ethics
2(7)
What Is Business Ethics?
2(1)
The Areas of Ethical Challenges
3(1)
Recognizing Ethical Dilemmas: The Language
4(2)
The Categories of Ethical Dilemmas
6(3)
Resolutions of Business Ethics Dilemma
9(24)
Is Business Bluffing Ethical?
9(10)
Ethics Without the Sermon
19(11)
Other Models for Resolution of Business Ethics Dilemmas
30(3)
Applying the Foundations of Business Ethics
33(6)
Trying Out the Models and a Resolution Approach
33(1)
Barbara Walters and Her Andrew Lloyd Webber Conflict
34(2)
The Rigged Election
36(1)
The Loan Officer and the Debtors
36(3)
UNIT 2 Foundations of Business Ethics: What Is the Role of Business in Society? Shareholders vs. Stakeholders 39(52)
The Role of Business in Society
40(15)
The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits
41(6)
The Ethics of Responsibility
47(4)
Principles of Social Responsibility in Business
51(2)
Schools of Thought on Social Responsibility
53(2)
Stakeholder vs. Shareholder Accountability
55(4)
Stakeholder Theory and the Coase Theorem
55(2)
Appeasing Stakeholders with Public Relations
57(2)
Applying Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory
59(32)
SUVs, the Environment, Safety, and Stakeholders
59(8)
Ice-T, the Body Count Album, and Shareholder Uprisings
67(5)
Guns 'n Social Responsibility
72(11)
Shock Jock: Howard Stern
83(1)
Dayton-Hudson and Its Contributions to Planned Parenthood
84(1)
Bayer, Anthrax, Cipro, Patents, and Half-Price
85(5)
The Chicago Inner-City School Experiment
90(1)
UNIT 3 Individual Values and the Business Organization 91(44)
Personal Values in Business Decisions
93(8)
The Parable of the Sadhu
93(6)
The Moving Line
99(2)
Personal Honesty
101(6)
Puffing in the Resume
101(2)
Radar Detectors and the Law
103(1)
The Ethics of Looking Busy
103(1)
The Employment Application Lie That Haunts the Applicant
104(1)
Travel Expenses: A Chance for Extra Income?
105(1)
Do Cheaters Prosper?
106(1)
Trust and Employment
107(14)
General Motors, Volkswagen, and the Traveling Executive
107(2)
The Sale of Sand to the Saudis
109(1)
The Compliance Officer Who Strayed
110(2)
Espionage and Job-Hopping
112(1)
The Glowing Recommendation
113(1)
The Ethics of Confrontation
114(7)
Taking Advantage
121(14)
Napster: The Ethics of ``Peer-to-Peer File Sharing''
121(4)
The Dot-Com and Finance
125(6)
Nestle Infant Formula
131(4)
UNIT 4 Individual Rights and the Business Organization 135(92)
Corporate Due Process
136(4)
Ann Hopkins, Price Waterhouse, and the Partnership
136(4)
Employee Screening
140(4)
Handwriting Analysis and Employment
140(2)
Health and Genetic Screening
142(2)
Employee Privacy
144(9)
Employee and Technology Privacy: Is the Boss Spying?
144(6)
The Athlete Role Model
150(1)
Drug Testing of Employees
151(2)
Sexual Harassment
153(7)
Seinfeld in the Workplace
153(2)
Hooters: More Than a Waitress?
155(1)
Navy Top Guns and Sexual Harassment
156(4)
Diversity, Equal Employment, and Affirmative Action
160(23)
The Benefits of Diversity---Doug Daft, CEO of Coca-Cola, Inc
160(5)
On-the-Job Fetal Injuries
165(2)
Denny's: Discriminatory Service with a Smile
167(3)
Texaco: The Jelly Bean Diversity Fiasco
170(11)
Hunter Tylo: Pregnancy Is Not a BFOQ
181(2)
Whistle-Blowing
183(24)
The Options for Whistle-Blowers
183(1)
Beech-Nut and the No-Apple-Juice Apple Juice
183(7)
NASA and the Space Shuttle Booster Rockets
190(4)
Dow Corning and the Silicone Implants: Questions of Safety and Disclosure
194(10)
The Changing Time Cards
204(3)
Employee Rights
207(20)
Cheap Labor: Children, Sweatshops, Human Rights, and the Fifty-Hour Work Week
207(7)
Human Rights Declarations and Company Policies
214(13)
UNIT 5 Business Operations 227(138)
Earnings, Transparency, and Management
228(50)
Earnings Management: The Ethical Issues Remain
228(3)
That ``M'' Word: To Disclose or Not to Disclose---Materiality and Ethics in Financial Reporting
231(7)
Chainsaw Al and the Ethics of Materiality in Financial Reporting
238(7)
Creative Medical Billing
245(4)
MiniScribe and the Auditors
249(2)
FINOVA and the Loan Write-Off
251(6)
Phar-Mor Earnings
257(3)
Overstated Earnings: Bausch & Lomb
260(2)
Enron-The CFO, Conflicts, and Cooking the Books with Natural Gas and Electricity
262(16)
Personal Ambition and Hubris
278(15)
Jonathan Lebed: The Middle School Tycoon
278(1)
The Inside Tract: Dan Dorfman
279(2)
The Ethics of Derivatives
281(5)
Compensation-Fueled Disshonesty: Fraud to Get Results
286(3)
The Ethics of Bankruptcy
289(4)
Conflicts between the Corporation's Ethical Code and Business Practices in Foreign Countries
293(3)
Product Dumping
293(1)
The Taboo of Women in Management
294(2)
Unauthorized Payments to Foreign Officials
296(13)
The Ethics of Business in China and Business Ethics in China
296(4)
The Adoption Agency and Senor Jose's Fees
300(1)
Salt Lake City, the Olympics, and Bribery
301(8)
Workplace Safety
309(24)
The Regulatory Cycle
309(3)
Electromagnetic Fields: Exposure for Workers and Customers
312(7)
Johns-Manville and the Asbestos Exposure
319(9)
Domino's Pizza Delivers
328(1)
Cell Phones
329(4)
Plant Closures and Downsizing
333(4)
Aaron Feuerstein and Malden Mills
333(2)
GM Plant Closings and Efforts at Outplacement
335(2)
Environmental Issues
337(10)
Herman Miller and Its Rain Forest Chairs
337(2)
Exxon and Alaska
339(5)
The Death of the Great Disposable Diaper Debate
344(3)
Purchasing: Conflicts and Bribery
347(18)
JCPenney and Its Wealthy Buyer
347(2)
Cars for Cars: Honda Executives' Allocation System
349(1)
Ford, Firestone, and the Rolling Explorer
350(15)
UNIT 6 Business and Its Competition 365(46)
Advertising Content
366(14)
Joe Camel: The Cartoon Character Who Sold Cigarettes and Nearly Felled an Industry
366(5)
Alcohol Advertising: The College Focus
371(3)
The Obligation to Screen? The Obligation to Reject---Soldier of Fortune Classifieds
374(3)
Aggressive Marketing of Prescription Drugs: Forms of Direct Sales
377(2)
Hollywood Ads
379(1)
Appropriation of Others' Ideas
380(5)
Ragu Thick and Zesty
380(1)
The Little Intermittent Windshield Wiper and Its Little Inventor
381(1)
V-A-N-N-A: It Belongs to Me
382(1)
Copyrights, Songs, and Charity
383(2)
Pricing
385(11)
Salomon Brothers and Bond Pricing
385(5)
Archer Daniels Midland: A Giant in Grain
390(2)
Sotheby's and Christie's: The No-Auction Prices
392(4)
Competitors, the Playing Field, and Competition
396(7)
Slotting: Facilitation, Costs, or Bribery
396(5)
Mr. Gates: Genius and Fierce Competitor
401(2)
Business and Its Shareholders
403(8)
Executive Compensation
403(5)
Shareholder Proposals and Corporate Governance
408(3)
UNIT 7 Business and Its Product 411(50)
Contract Relations
412(20)
Intel and Pentium: What to Do When the Chips Are Down
412(3)
Hidden Car Rental Fees
415(3)
Thinning Diet Industry
418(5)
Sears and High-Cost Auto Repairs
423(6)
Magazine Contests: The Disclosure of Odds
429(1)
McDonald's and the Disappearing Dodge Viper Game Pieces
430(2)
Product Safety
432(23)
Tylenol: The Product and its Packaging Safety
432(3)
Ford and Its Pinto
435(8)
GM and Its Malibu
443(2)
ATVs: Danger on Wheels
445(4)
A. H. Robins and the Dalkon Shield
449(3)
E. Coli, Jack-in-the-Box, and Cooking Temperatures
452(3)
Product Social Issues
455(6)
The Mommy Doll
455(1)
Rock Music Warning Labels
456(3)
Stem-Cell Research
459(2)
UNIT 8 Business and Government 461(22)
Government Employees
462(13)
A Club in My Name
462(1)
The Fireman and His Family
463(1)
Commodities, Conflicts, and Clintons
463(2)
The Secretary of Agriculture, Chicken Processors, and Football Skybox Seats
465(5)
The City Council Member with Clout
470(1)
IRS Employees and Sensitive Data
471(1)
The Generous and Profitable Foundation Board
472(3)
Government Contracts
475(4)
Stanford University and Government Overhead Payments
475(2)
Casino Leases and the County Supervisor
477(1)
Bids, Employees, and Conflicts
478(1)
Government Responsibilities
479(4)
Orange County: Derivative Capital of the United States
479(2)
Cars and Conflicts
481(2)
UNIT 9 Ethics and Nonprofits 483(1)
Ethics and Nonprofits
484(1)
Giving and Spending the United Way
484(2)
New Era---If It Sounds Too Good to Be True, It Is Too Good to Be True
486(3)
The Red Cross, New York, and Ground Zero
489

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