Business Ethics, Pearson New International Edition, 7th edition

Published by Pearson (31 July 2013) © 2014

  • Manuel G. Velasquez Santa Clara University
Products list
£80.99
Free delivery

Details

  • A print edition

Title overview

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.

NEW! Pearson's Reading Hour Program for Instructors

Interested in reviewing new and updated texts in Philosophy?

Click on the below link to choose an electronic chapter to preview...

Settle back, read, and receive a Penguin paperback for your time!

http://www.pearsonhighered.com/readinghour/philosophy

Table of contents

IN THIS SECTION:

1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE

 

 

 

 

 

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

Contents

Preface

 

PART ONE Basic Principles

 

Chapter 1 Ethics and Business

Chapter 2 Ethical Principles in Business 

 

PART TWO The Market and Business

 

Chapter 3 The Business System: Government, Markets, 

Chapter 4 Ethics in the Marketplace

 

PART THREE Business and Its External Exchanges:

Ecology and Consumers

 

Chapter 5 Ethics and the Environment  

Chapter 6 The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing  

 

PART FOUR Business and Its Internal Constituencies

 

Chapter 7 The Ethics of Job Discrimination

Chapter 8 Ethics and the Employee

 

Notes

Index

 

COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

ContentsPreface

 

PART ONE Basic Principles

 

Chapter 1 Ethics and Business

Introduction

1.1 The Nature of Business Ethics

ON THE EDGE: Was National Semiconductor Morally Responsible?

1.2 Ethical Issues in Business

ON THE EDGE: A Traditional Business

1.3 Moral Responsibility and Blame

ON THE EDGE: WorldCom’s Whistleblower

ON THE EDGE: Gun Manufacturers and Responsibility

CASES FOR DISCUSSION

Slavery in the Chocolate Industry

Aaron Beam and the HealthSouth Fraud

 

Chapter 2 Ethical Principles in Business

Introduction

2.1 Utilitarianism: Weighing Social Costs and Benefits

2.2 Rights and Duties

ON THE EDGE: Should Companies Dump Their Wastes In Poor

Countries?

ON THE EDGE: Working for Eli Lilly & Company

ON THE EDGE: Conflict Diamonds

ON THE EDGE: ExxonMobil, Amerada Hess, and Marathon Oil in

Equatorial Guinea

CASES FOR DISCUSSION

Traidos Bank and Roche’s Drug Trials in China

 

PART TWO The Market and Business

 

Chapter 3 The Business System: Government, Markets,

and International Trade

Introduction

3.1 Free Markets and Rights: John Locke

3.2 Free Markets and Utility: Adam Smith

3.3 Free Trade and Utility: David Ricardo

3.4 Marx and Justice: Criticizing Markets and Free Trade

ON THE EDGE: Commodification or How Free Should Free Markets Be?

ON THE EDGE: Marx’s Children

3.5 Conclusion: The Mixed Economy, the New Property,

and the End of Marxism

ON THE EDGE: Napster’s Lost Revolution

ON THE EDGE: Brian’s Franchise

CASES FOR DISCUSSION

The GM Bailout

Accolade versus Sega

 

Chapter 4 Ethics in the Marketplace

Introduction

4.1 Perfect Competition

4.2 Monopoly Competition

ON THE EDGE: Drug Company Monopolies and Profits

4.3 Oligopolistic Competition

4.4 Oligopolies and Public Policy

ON THE EDGE: Fixing the Computer Memory Market

ON THE EDGE: Oracle and Peoplesoft

CASES FOR DISCUSSION

Intel’s “Rebates” and Other Ways It “Helped” Customers

Archer Daniels Midland and the Friendly Competitors

 

PART THREE Business and It

Need help?Get in touch