Business Ethics: Concepts & CasesPearson Prentice Hall, 2006 - 437 pages For courses in Business Ethics 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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... programs to achieve the goal of diversity . Thus , the Supreme Court has vacillated on the constitutionality of affirmative action programs . Depending on the period in question , the issue at stake , and the current makeup of the Court ...
... programs is based on the idea that these programs are morally legitimate instruments for achiev- ing morally legitimate ends . For example , utilitarians have claimed that affirmative action programs are justified because they promote ...
... programs actually harm women and minorities because such programs imply that women and minorities are so inferior to White males that they need special help to compete . 100 This attribution of inferiority , critics claim , is ...
Contents
Chapter | 1 |
Ethical Principles in Business | 57 |
Chapter 2 | 74 |
Copyright | |
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