Research Catalog

Title

Business ethics / edited by Milton Snoeyenbos, Robert Almeder, James Humber.

Publication

Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Snoeyenbos, Milton.
• Almeder, Robert F.
• Humber, James M.

Description

651 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

Business ethics > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Introduction -- 2. Ethics and organization : Business and social responsibility : Case study: Cost-benefit analysis and the Ford Pinto ; The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits / Milton Friedman ; Milton Friedman responds / [interview with] Milton Friedman ; Morality in the marketplace / Robert Almeder -- Stakeholder trust : Case study: EC Technology ; A stakeholder theory of the modern corporation / R. Edward Freeman ; Why I am not a normative stakeholder theorist / James M. Humber ; Corporate policy statements -- Morals, management, and codes : Case study: Aero Products ; Managing ethics / Milton Snoeyenbos and Barbara Caley -- 3. Employer rights : Agents' duties : Duties of agent to principal / C.G. Luckhardt -- Conflict of interest : Inorganic Chemicals Company's conflict of interest policy / Sorrel M. Mathes and G. Clark Thompson -- Conflict of interest / Robert E. Frederick --^
• Gifts and entertainment : Case study: Corporate gift giving ; Morality and gift giving / Robert Almeder ; Corporate policy statements -- Trade secrets and patents : Case study: Trade secrets at Morris Computer ; Case study: Trade secrets at Atlas Chemical Corp. ; Trade secrets, patents, and morality / Robert E. Frederick and Milton Snoeyenbos -- Employee productivity monitoring : Case study: Monitoring electronic mail ; Electronic monitoring of employees: issues and guidelines / Ernest Kallman -- Downsizing : Case study: Layoffs at Alexo Plastics ; Sign of the times: implementing reductions in force / Brian W. Bulger and Carolyn Curtis Gessner -- Honesty in communication : Case study: A communication decision at Von Products, Inc. ; Honesty in organizational communication / James M. Humber -- 4. Employee rights : Introduction: employee rights / Ronald Duska -- Hiring : Case study: Hiring procedures at World Imports, Inc. ; Hiring ethics / Milton Snoeyenbos and Robert Almeder --^
• Reverse discrimination : Case study: A promotion decision at Ballentyne International ; Case study: Wage differences at Robert Hall ; Reverse discrimination / Anita Gonsalves ; In defense of reverse discrimination / James M. Humber -- Diversity : Case study: Texaco: the jelly bean diversity fiasco ; Diversity at work / Barbara Hall -- Sexual harassment : A summary of sexual harassment / Barbara Hall -- Discharge : Case study: A termination at Pacemakers, Inc. ; Employment at will / Patricia H. Werhane ; Just cause / John J. McCall ; Due process / James Kiersky -- Privacy : Case study: Fantenetti Valve Corporation ; Case study: LANSCAPE ; Case study: Drug testing at Explo, Inc. ; The right to privacy / John R. Boatright ; Corporate policy statements -- Worker safety : Case study: AIDS on the Grand Motors Assembly Line ; The moral right to know in the workplace / Robert Almeder and J.D. Miller --^
• Whistleblowing : Case study: Whistleblowing at Northern Airlines ; Whistleblowing: loyalty and dissent in the corporation / Alan F. Westin ; Whistleblowing / Ronald F. Duska.
• 5. Ethics and finance : Introduction : Case study: Insider trading scenarios ; Finance ethics / John R. Boatright ; Case study: Dilemma of an accountant ; Ethics in the public accounting profession / Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi and Mark R. Nixon -- 6. Business and the consumer : Product safety : Case study: Biss v. Tenneco Inc. ; Case study: Austin v. Ford Motor Co. ; Case study: Griggs v. BIC Corp. ; Case study: The DES daughters ; Strict products liability and compensatory justice / George G. Brenkert ; Let's restore balance to product liability law / Robert H. Malott ; Product safety: who should absorb the cost? / Beverly C. Moore, Jr. -- Advertising : Case study: FTC v. Colgate-Palmolive Co. ; Case study: Natural cereals / Norman E. Bowie and Patrick E. Murphy ; The advertising code of American business ; Ethics and advertising / John Z. Miller ; In defense of advertising / Charles Collins ; Case study: Linking databases at Clickthough / George Rainbolt ; The internet and consumer privacy / George Rainbolt -- Selling : Case study: Roger Hixon: let the buyer beware / Clinton L. Oakes ; A moral evaluation of sales practices / David M. Holley -- 7. Business and the environment : Environmental responsibility : Case study: Macklin Mining Company ; People or penguins: the case for optimal pollution / William F. Baxter ; Ethics and ecology / William T. Blackstone ; Ecological ethics / Manuel G. Velaquez ; Morality, money, and motor cars / Norman E. Bowie ; A road map for natural capitalism / Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, and Paul Hawken -- 8. Multinational corporations : Introduction : Case study: H.B. Fuller in Honduras: street children and substance abuse / Norman E. Bowie and Stefanie Ann Lenway ; Case study: What price safety? ; Ethical complexities involving multinational corporations / James Kiersky ; Ethical dilemmas for multinational enterprise: a philosophical overview / Richard T. DeGeorge ; Ethics in international business / John R. Boatright.

ISBN

1573929034 (pbk. : alk.paper)

LCCN

^^2001031933

OCLC

• 46937542
• SCSB-10482906

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library