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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ethics and Organizations | |
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| Business and Social Responsibility | |
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| Case Study: Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Ford Pinto | |
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| The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits | |
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| Milton Friedman Responds | |
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| Morality in the Marketplace | |
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| Stakeholder Theory | |
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| Case Study: EC Technology | |
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| A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation | |
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| Why I Am Not A Normative Stakeholder Theorist | |
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| Corporate Policy Statements | |
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| Morals, Management, and Codes | |
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| Case Study: Aero Products | |
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| Managing Ethics | |
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| Employer Rights | |
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| Agents' Duties | |
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| Duties of Agent to Principal | |
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| Conflict of Interest | |
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| Inorganic Chemicals Company's Conflict of Interest Policy | |
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| Conflict of Interest | |
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| Gifts and Entertainment | |
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| Case Study: Corporate Gift Giving | |
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| Morality and Gift Giving | |
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| Corporate Policy Statements | |
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| Trade Secrets and Patents | |
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| Case Study: Trade Secrets at Morris Computer | |
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| Case Study: Trade Secrets at Atlas Chemical Corp | |
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| Trade Secrets, Patents, and Morality | |
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| Employee Productivity Monitoring | |
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| Case Study: Monitoring Electronic Mail | |
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| Electronic Monitoring of Employees: Issues and Guidelines | |
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| Downsizing | |
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| Case Study: Layoffs at Alexo Plastics | |
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| Sign of the Times: Implementing Reductions in Force | |
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| Honesty in Communication | |
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| Case Study: A Communication Decision at Von Products, Inc | |
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| Honesty in Organizational Communication | |
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| Employee Rights | |
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| Employee Rights | |
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| Hiring | |
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| Case Study: Hiring Procedures at World Imports, Inc | |
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| Hiring Ethics | |
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| Reverse Discrimination | |
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| Case Study: A Promotion Decision at Ballentyne International | |
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| Case Study: Wage Differences at Robert Hall | |
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| Reverse Discrimination | |
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| In Defense of Reverse Discrimination | |
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| Diversity | |
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| Case Study: Texaco: The Jelly Bean Diversity Fiasco | |
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| Diversity at Work | |
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| Sexual Harassment | |
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| A Summary of Sexual Harassment | |
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| Discharge | |
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| Case Study: A Termination at Pacemakers, Inc | |
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| Employment at Will | |
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| Just Cause | |
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| Due Process | |
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| Privacy | |
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| Case Study: Fantenetti Valve Corporation | |
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| Case Study: LANSCAPE | |
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| Case Study: Drug Testing at Explo, Inc | |
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| The Right to Privacy | |
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| Corporate Policy Statements | |
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| Worker Safety | |
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| Case Study: AIDS on the Grand Motors Assembly Line | |
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| The Moral Right to Know in the Workplace | |
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| Whistleblowing | |
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| Case Study: Whistleblowing at Northern Airlines | |
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| Whistleblowing: Loyalty and Dissent in the Corporation | |
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| Whistleblowing | |
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| Ethics and Finance | |
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| Case Study: Insider Trading Scenarios | |
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| Finance Ethics | |
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| Case Study: Dilemma of an Accountant | |
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| Ethics in the Public Accounting Profession | |
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| Business and the Consumer | |
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| Product Safety | |
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| Case Study: Biss v. Tenneco Inc | |
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| Case Study: Austin v. Ford Motor Co. | |
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| Case Study: Griggs v. BIC Corp. | |
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| Case Study: The DES Daughters | |
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| Strict Products Liability and Compensatory Justice | |
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| Let's Restore Balance to Product Liability Law | |
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| Product Safety: Who Should Absorb the Cost? | |
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| Advertising | |
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| Case Study: FTC v. Colgate-Palmolive Co. | |
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| Case Study: Natural Cereals | |
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| The Advertising Code of American Business | |
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| Ethics and Advertising | |
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| In Defense of Advertising | |
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| Case Study: Linking Databases at Clickthrough | |
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| The Internet and Consumer Privacy | |
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| Selling | |
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| Case Study: Roger Hixon: Let the Buyer Beware | |
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| A Moral Evaluation of Sales Practices | |
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| Business and the Environment | |
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| Environmental Responsibility | |
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| Case Study: Macklin Mining Company | |
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| People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution | |
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| Ethics and Ecology | |
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| Ecological Ethics | |
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| Morality, Money, and Motor Cars | |
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| A Road Map for Natural Capitalism | |
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| Multinational Corporations | |
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| Case Study: H. B. Fuller in Honduras: Street Children and Substance Abuse | |
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| Case Study: What Price Safety? | |
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| Ethical Complexities Involving Multinational Corporations | |
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| Ethical Dilemmas for Multinational Enterprise: A Philosophical Overview | |
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| Ethics in International Business | |
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