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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   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.  

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Author:   Manuel G. Velasquez
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   7th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 20.30cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.800kg
ISBN:  

9780205017669

ISBN 10:   0205017665
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   28 July 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Replaced By:   9781292022819
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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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 Its External Exchanges: Ecology and Consumers Chapter 5 Ethics and the Environment Introduction 5.1 The Dimensions of Pollution and Resource Depletion 5.2 The Ethics of Pollution Control 5.3 The Ethics of Conserving Depletable Resources ON THE EDGE: Ford's Toxic Wastes ON THE EDGE: The Auto Companies in China ON THE EDGE: Exporting Poison CASES FOR DISCUSSION The Ok Tedi Copper Mine Gas or Grouse? Chapter 6 The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing Introduction 6.1 Markets and Consumer Protection 6.2 The Contract View of Business Firm's Duties to Consumers 6.3 The Due Care Theory ON THE EDGE: The Tobacco Companies and Product Safety 6.4 The Social Costs View of the Manufacturer's Duties ON THE EDGE: Selling Personalized Genetics 6.5 Advertising Ethics ON THE EDGE: Advertising Death to Kids? ON THE EDGE: New Balance and the Made in USA Label 6.6 Consumer Privacy CASES FOR DISCUSSION Becton Dickinson and Needle Sticks Reducing Debts at Credit Solutions of America PART FOUR Business and Its Internal Constituencies Chapter 7 The Ethics of Job Discrimination Introduction 7.1 Job Discrimination: Its Nature ON THE EDGE: Helping Patients at Plainfield Healthcare Center 7.2 Discrimination: Its Extent 7.3 DISCRIMINATION: UTILITY, RIGHTS, AND JUSTICE 7.4 Affirmative Action ON THE EDGE: Driving for Old Dominion ON THE EDGE: Peter Oiler and Winn-Dixie Stores CASES FOR DISCUSSION Should Kroger pay now for what a Ralphs' Employee did in the Past Wal-Mart's Women Chapter 8 Ethics and the Employee Introduction 8.1 The Rational Organization 8.2 The Political Organization 8.3 The Caring Organization ON THE EDGE: HP's Secrets and Oracle's New Hire ON THE EDGE: Insider Trading or: What Are Friends For? ON THE EDGE: Delivering Pizza ON THE EDGE: Sergeant Quon's Text Messages ON THE EDGE: Employment at Will at Howmet Corporation? CASES FOR DISCUSSION Death at Massey Energy Company Who Should Pay? Notes Index

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This book is an outstanding, clearly written, economics-oriented ethics textbook that will fulfill most of your pedagogical needs in any undergraduate business ethics course. Marc Orlitzky, University of Redlands The On the Edge feature boxes have been very useful in the classroom. Barbara Fechner, South East Community College Velasquez has been a standard in Business Ethics for several years. The book is well written and has a number of good cases Rodney Stevenson, University of Wisconsin Madison

This book is an outstanding, clearly written, economics-oriented ethics textbook that will fulfill most of your pedagogical needs in any undergraduate business ethics course. --Marc Orlitzky, University of Redlands The On the Edge feature boxes have been very useful in the classroom. --Barbara Fechner, South East Community College Velasquez has been a standard in Business Ethics for several years. The book is well written and has a number of good cases --Rodney Stevenson, University of Wisconsin - Madison

-This book is an outstanding, clearly written, economics-oriented ethics textbook that will fulfill most of your pedagogical needs in any undergraduate business ethics course.- --Marc Orlitzky, University of Redlands -The On the Edge feature boxes have been very useful in the classroom.- --Barbara Fechner, South East Community College -Velasquez has been a standard in Business Ethics for several years. The book is well written and has a number of good cases- --Rodney Stevenson, University of Wisconsin - Madison This book is an outstanding, clearly written, economics-oriented ethics textbook that will fulfill most of your pedagogical needs in any undergraduate business ethics course. --Marc Orlitzky, University of Redlands The On the Edge feature boxes have been very useful in the classroom. --Barbara Fechner, South East Community College Velasquez has been a standard in Business Ethics for several years. The book is well written and has a number of good cases --Rodney Stevenson, University of Wisconsin - Madison This book is an outstanding, clearly written, economics-oriented ethics textbook that will fulfill most of your pedagogical needs in any undergraduate business ethics course. Marc Orlitzky, University of Redlands The On the Edge feature boxes have been very useful in the classroom. Barbara Fechner, South East Community College Velasquez has been a standard in Business Ethics for several years. The book is well written and has a number of good cases Rodney Stevenson, University of Wisconsin Madison

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