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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... require that I kill an innocent person for you . Does the agreement now justify my killing the innocent person ? Obviously , it does not because agreements do not change the moral character of wrongful acts . If it is morally wrong ...
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... require that the manager not favor her friend . The demands of an ethic of care would seem to require that the manager favor her friend for the sake of their friendship . How should conflicts of this sort be resolved ? First , notice ...
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... require us to develop . Utilitarianism , for example , requires us to develop dispositions such as kindness and generosity that will lead us to enhance the happiness of people . Hence , there is no conflict between theories of ethics ...

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Contents

Ethical Principles in Business
57
Chapter 2
74
CASES FOR DISCUSSION
118
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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.

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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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