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About the Authors | |
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Preface | |
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Ethics and Business | |
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Introduction: Making the Case for Business Ethics | |
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Business Ethics as Ethical Decision Making | |
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Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility | |
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Ethics and the Law | |
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Ethics as Practical Reason | |
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Value Shift | |
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An Ethical Hero or a Failed Businessman? The Malden Mills Case Revisited | |
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Do You Need an Ethics Officer? | |
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Ethical Decision Making: Personal and Professional Contexts | |
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Introduction | |
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A Decision-Making Process for Ethics | |
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When Ethical Decision Making Goes Wrong: Why Do "Good" People Engage in "Bad" Acts? | |
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Ethical Decision Making in Managerial Roles | |
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Abandoning the "Just School" Myth | |
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The Parable of the Sadhu | |
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When Good People Do Bad Things at Work | |
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Philosophical Ethics and Business | |
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Introduction: Ethical Theories and Traditions | |
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Utilitarianism: Making Decisions Based on Ethical Consequences | |
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Problems of Utilitarian Ethics | |
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Deontology: Making Decisions Based on Ethical Principles | |
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Sources of Rules | |
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Moral Rights and Duties | |
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Distinguishing between Moral Rights and Legal Rights | |
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Social Justice: Rawlsian Justice as Fairness | |
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Virtue Ethics: Making Decisions Based on Integrity and Character | |
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A Decision-Making Model for Business Ethics Revisited | |
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The Justification of Human Rights | |
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Do CEOs Get Paid Too Much? | |
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Caux Principles for Business | |
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The Corporate Culture-Impact and Implications | |
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What Is Corporate Culture? | |
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Culture and Ethics | |
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Compliance and Value-Based Cultures | |
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Ethical Leadership and Corporate Culture | |
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Effective Leadership and Ethical Leadership | |
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Building a Values-Based Corporate Culture | |
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Mission Statements, Codes of Conduct, and Statements of Values | |
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Ethics Hotlines, Ombudsmen, and Integrating Ethical Culture | |
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Assessing and Monitoring the Corporate Culture: Audits | |
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Mandating and Enforcing Culture: The Federal Sentencing Guidelines | |
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Good Business Sometimes Means the Customer Doesn't Come First | |
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Assessment and Plan for Organizational Culture Change at NASA | |
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Inside Arthur Andersen | |
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Corporate Social Responsibility | |
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Introduction | |
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Is There a Social Responsibility of Business? If So, What Is Its Orgin | |
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Is There a Social Responsibility of Business? If So, Responsibility to Whom? | |
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Is There a Social Responsibility of Business? If So, What Is the Extent of the Responsibility? | |
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Ethics and Social Responsibility | |
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Exploring Enlightened Self-Interest: Motivation for CSR | |
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Does the "Enlightened Self-Interest" Model Work? Does "Good Ethics" Mean "Good Business"? | |
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Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business: A Reason Debate Featuring Milton Friedman, Whole Foods' John Mackey, and Cypress Semiconductor's T. J. Rodgers | |
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Why Should Corporate Responsibility Be Altruistic? | |
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Does It Pay to Be Good? | |
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Ethical Decision Making: Employer Responsibilities and Employee Rights | |
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Introduction | |
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Ethical Issues in the Workplace: The Current Environment | |
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Defining the Parameters of the Employment Relationship | |
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Due Process and Just Cause | |
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Downsizing | |
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Health and Safety | |
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Global Applications: The Global Workforce and Global Challenges | |
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The Case of Child Labor | |
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Rights and Responsibilities in Conflict: Discrimination, Diversity, and Affirmative Action | |
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Discrimination | |
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Diversity | |
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Affirmative Action | |
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Worker Rights and Low Wage Industrialization: How to Avoid Sweatshops | |
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Women in the Workplace: Freedom of Choice or Freedom from Choice? | |
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Employment-at-Will, Employee Rights, and Future Directions for Employment | |
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Ethical Decision Making: Technology and Privacy in the Workplace | |
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Introduction | |
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The Right to Privacy | |
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Defining Privacy | |
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Ethical Sources of a Right to Privacy | |
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Legal Sources of a Right to Privacy | |
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Linking the Value of Privacy to the Ethical Implications of Technology | |
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Information and Privacy | |
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Managing Employees through Monitoring | |
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Business Reasons to Limit Monitoring | |
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Balancing Interests | |
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Monitoring Employees through Drug Testing | |
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Other Forms of Monitoring | |
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Regulation of Off-Work Acts | |
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Privacy Rights since September 11. 2001 | |
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The New Economy: Ethical Issues | |
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Gene Machine: Keep Your Hands off Our Genes | |
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Drug Testing and the Right to Privacy: Arguing the Ethics of Workplace Drug Testing | |
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Alternative Explanations for Drug Testing-Blaming the Individual | |
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Ethics and Marketing | |
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Introduction | |
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Ethical Issues in Marketing: A Framework | |
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Responsibility for Products: Safety and Liability | |
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Contractual Standards for Product Safety | |
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Tort Standards for Product Safety | |
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Strict Product Liability | |
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Ethical Debates on Product Liability | |
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Responsibility for Products: Advertising and Sales | |
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Ethical Issues in Advertising | |
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Marketing Ethics and Consumer Autonomy | |
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Marketing to Vulnerable Populations | |
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Supply Chain Responsibility | |
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An Interview with Alex Molnar | |
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Sony Online Entertainment: EverQuest or EverCrack? Oxford-Style Debate Presented at Tenth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics | |
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Everquest: A Rejoinder to Hartman and Pava | |
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Wrestling with Ethics: Is Marketing Ethics an Oxymoron? | |
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Business, the Environment, and Sustainability | |
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Introduction | |
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Business Ethics and Environmental Values | |
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Business's Environmental Responsibility: The Market Approach | |
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Business's Environmental Responsibility: The Regulatory Approach | |
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Business's Environmental Responsibilities: The Sustainability Approach | |
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Business Opportunities in a Sustainable Economy | |
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Principles for a Sustainable Business | |
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Morality, Money, and Motor Cars | |
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The Next Industrial Revolution | |
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Taking Sustainability Seriously: An Argument for Managerial Responsibility | |
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Ethical Decision Making: Corporate Governance, Accounting, and Finance | |
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Professional Duties and Conflicts of Interest | |
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | |
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The Internal Control Environment | |
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Going beyond the Law: Being an Ethical Board Member | |
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Legal Duties of Board Members | |
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Beyond the Law, There Is Ethics | |
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Conflicts of Interest in Accounting and the Financial Markets | |
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Executive Compensation | |
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Insider Trading | |
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Excerpts from "Enron: The Parable" | |
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WorldCom with Worldcom Update | |
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Will the SEC Ever Get Serious about Making Corporate Insiders Pay for Fraud? | |
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Three Women's Moral Courage: Why We Care | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |