This Is Business Ethics: An Introduction

✍ Scribed by Tobey Scharding

• Publisher: Wiley/Blackwell
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 268
• Series: This Is Philosophy
• Edition: First edition.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Take a seat in the boardroom. What will you decide? Corporations make difficult decisions about the right thing to do every day, but as an organization made up of people with different perspectives and values, how can a business behave ethically? This is Business Ethics offers a dynamic and engaging introduction to the study of corporate morality.
-Offers real-world practical advice for navigating ethical dilemmas in business, developed and explained through illustrative high-profile case studies like the Ford Pinto case, Enron, Walmart and British Petroleum.
-Explores how ethical theory informs business policy and practice.
-Presents unresolved contemporary case studies for consideration, inviting readers to participate in the decision-making and offer their own recommendations.
-The latest in the This is Philosophy series, This is Business Ethics features supplemental online resources for instructors and students at www.thisisphilosophy.com.

✦ Table of Contents

Ethics : doing the right thing --
Business : maximizing profit --
Classic business ethics dilemmas : when doing the right thing does not maximize profits --
Ethical theories --
Theories of corporate personhood --
Theories of political economy --
Business ethics in employment --
Business ethics in advertising --
Business ethics in the financial sector --
Business ethics in the environment --
Business ethics in globalization --
Predicting and preventing future business ethics scandals.

✦ Subjects

Business Ethics