Business Ethics: Concepts & Cases

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Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006 - 437 pages

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This popular text on Business Ethics introduces the reader to the ethical concepts that are relevant to resolving moral issues in business; imparts the reasoning and anaytical 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.

The ethical landscape of business is constantly changing and this edition has been revised to keep pace with those changes most effecting business: accelerating globalization, constant technological updates, proliferating of business scandals.

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... claim , by relieving consumers of the responsibility of paying for their own injuries , the social costs theory will encourage carelessness in consumers . An increase in consumer carelessness will lead to an increase in consumer ...
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... claim that discrimination violates basic human rights ; and ( c ) justice arguments , which claim that discrimination results in an unjust distribution of society's benefits and burdens . Utility The standard utilitarian argument ...
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... claim that a person is granted rights only if the person accepts certain duties toward the community that grants those rights . Other authors claim that all my rights can be defined wholly in terms of the duties of others . Both of these ...

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Contents

PART ONE Basic Principles
1
Ethical Principles in Business
57
Chapter 2
74
Copyright

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Manuel G. Velasquez
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About the author (2006)

Manuel Velasquez is the former Director of Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. He is now chair of the Department of Management at the Leavey School of Business at SCU. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles on Business Ethics.

Bibliographic information

TitleBusiness Ethics: Concepts & Cases
AuthorManuel G. Velasquez
Edition6, illustrated
PublisherPearson Prentice Hall, 2006
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized27 Sep 2008
ISBN0131930079, 9780131930070
Length437 pages
  
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