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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... tion . Our social conventions also say that a corporation acts when properly qualified members of the corporation carry out their assigned duties within the scope of their assigned authority . Because corporate acts originate in the ...
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... tion or policy is the one that will produce the greatest net benefits or the lowest net costs ( when all alternatives have only net costs ) . The Ford managers reduced costs and benefits primarily to economic costs and benefits ( such ...
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... tion , forced labor , torture , murder , and rape on the Yadana pipeline project , filed class action suits in U.S. courts against Unocal : one suit in U.S. federal court ( Doe v . Uno- cal ) and a second in California state court ...

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Contents

Chapter
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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