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ISBN 10: 0538453982
ISBN 13: 978-0538453981
Author: Dean Bredeson
More than a general ethics text, APPLIED BUSINESS ETHICS: A SKILLS-BASED APPROACH applies practical ethical situations to real-world business settings and decisions. The text�s thought-provoking scenarios read like a Hollywood screenplay, with up-to-the-minute issues that encourage active debate among peers. Written by an award-winning business ethics instructor, APPLIED BUSINESS ETHICS has been field-tested by students and faculty across the U.S. The result is an exciting text that makes business ethics interesting and fun for everyone.
Applied Business Ethics A Skills Based Approach 1st Table of contents:
Introduction. Overview: What is an Ethical Dilemma? UNIT I: BASIC CONCEPTS. Overview: How do People Respond to Ethical Dilemmas?
1. Outcome-Based Decisions: Egoism and Utility.
2. Scope of Utility: Selecting Relevant Groups.
3. Kant and �Unique Human Dignity.�
4. Kant’s Duty Ethics. UNIT II: PURPOSE OF THE CORPORATION. Overview: History of Incorporation Law from Ford v. Dodge Era to Present.
5. Stakeholder Ethics.
6. Milton Friedman and Shareholder Ethics.
7. Stakeholder Focus: Employees.
8. Stakeholder Focus: Plant Closing.
9. Stakeholder Focus: Communities.
10. Stakeholder Focus: Customers and Dangerous Products. UNIT III: SELLING, MARKETING, AND ADVERTISING. Overview: Fraud and the 1st Amendment.
11. �Best Case Scenario Ads.�
12. Quickly Flashed Fine Print.
13. Exaggerated Environmental Friendliness.
14. Celebrity Endorsements: What if the Celebrity Does Not Use the Product?
15. Marketing Unhealthy Food to Children.
16. Children and Violent Video Games.
17. Using Sex to Sell: Digitally Enhanced Images.
18. Ethical Selling: Labeling Sleight-of-Hand.
19. Marketing in the Public Schools.
20. Continuing to Market Products Found to be Dangerous. UNIT IV: OFFICE ETHICS: TREATMENT OF EMPLOYEES. Overview: The Employment-at-Will Doctrine.
21. Discrimination Against Obese Workers.
22. �Don’t Be a Hero� Policies.
23. Layoffs in Good Economic Times.
24. Sexual Harassment Policies and Workplace Dating.
25. The Family and Medical Leave Act and �Fake Illnesses.�
26. Firing Workers Responsible for a �Big Problem.�
27. Firing Employees who are Part of a Chain that Leads to a �Big Problem.�
28. Employee Behavior Away from the Office.
29. Workplace Diversity.
30. Non-Compete Agreements and Arbitration Clauses.
31. Layoffs and Health Care. UNIT V: WORKPLACE PRIVACY. Overview: Privacy: Griswold v. Connecticut, Roe v. Wade, and Current Issues.
32. Monitoring Software.
33. Email Surveillance.
34. Drug Testing and Polygraph Testing.
35. Workplace Dating, Sexual Harassment, and �Love Contracts.�
36. Background Checks and Social Networking Websites.
37. Job Applicants and Credit Reports. UNIT VI: EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION. Overview: The Ever-growing Gap Between Pay for Executives and �Line Workers.�
38. CEO Compensation.
39. Taxes and Salaries: Egalitarian and Libertarian Policies.
40. Rawls’ Veil of Ignorance and Fair Compensation Systems. UNIT VII: ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS. Overview: History of Environmentalism from the Creation of the EPA to Present.
41. Dumping.
42. Cap and Trade and Pollution Credits.
43. Cars: Hybrids, Plug-ins, Hydrogen and Break-Even Costs.
44. Wind and Solar Power.
45. �Green� Buildings.
46. Corporate Donations to Support Environmental Initiatives.
47. �Perfectly Good Items�: Wasteful Business Practices. UNIT VIII: SPECIAL OBLIGATIONS TO CUSTOMERS. Overview: Retaining Market Share, Lawsuits, and Legislation.
48. Customer Deception: Who’s to Blame?
49. Credit Cards and Payday Loans.
50. �Microinsurance.�
51. Using �Bad� Things to Boost Profits.
52. Store Cards, Search Engines, and Customer Data.
53. �Least Profitable Customers.� UNIT IX: INTERNATIONAL ETHICS. Overview: The Global Economy.
54. Overseas Working Conditions.
55. Outsourcing Jobs and �In-sourcing� Jobs.
56. Subsistence Wages.
57. Fair Trade Programs.
58. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Bribes. UNIT X: ENRON AND �THE LAST BIG MESS.� Overview: Sarbanes-Oxley, Audits, and Accounting Reform.
59. Intentional Misrepresentations.
60. Investors who are Given Faulty Information.
61. Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Disaster.
62. CFOs Pressuring Auditors. UNIT XI: THE GREAT RECESSION AND THE �LATEST BIG MESS.� Overview: Root Causes of the Current Recession and a Comparison to the Depression.
63. Mortgage-Backed Securities and Root Causes of the Great Recession.
64. The Mortgage Meltdown: Big Investors.
65. �Outsourcing Yourself.�
66. The Making Home Affordable Program.
67. �Strategic Defaults� and Foreclosures. UNIT XII: GOVERNMENT ACTIONS AND CORPORATE INFLUENCE. Overview: Branches of Government, Responsibility of Officials, and Lobbyists.
68. Politics and The Supreme Court.
69. Citizens’ United Case: Free Speech, Corporations, and Participation in Elections.
70. Long-Term Unemployment.
71. Immigration Policy.
72. Health Care Legislation.
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