Table of Content
General Introduction. Introduction to Ethical Reasoning, Thomas Donaldson and Patricia H. Werhane. Does Business Ethics Make Economic Sense?, Amartya Sen. I. GENERAL ISSUES IN ETHICS. Truth Telling. CASE STUDY: Italian Tax Mores, Arthur L. Kelley. Ethical Duties Towards Others: Truthfulness, Immanuel Kant. Is Business Bluffing Ethical?, Albert Carr. Business Ethics and Politics, Joseph Betz. Promoting Honesty in Negotiation: An Exercise in Practical Ethics, Peter C. Cramton and J. Gregory Dees. Virtues and the Virtuous Manager: CASE STUDY: Run, Inc., American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Corporate Roles, Personal Virtues: An Aristotelean Approach to Business Ethics, Robert C. Solomon. Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work, Robert Jackall. II. PROPERTY, PROFIT, AND JUSTICE. Traditional Theories of Property and Profit: CASE STUDY: Plasma International, T.W. Zimmerer and P.L. Preston. CASE STUDY: Dorrence Corporation Trade-offs, Hans Wolf. The Justification of Private Property, John Locke. Alienated Labor, Karl Marx. Benefits of the Profit Motive, Adam Smith. Wealth, Andrew Carnegie. Property and Profit: Modern Discussions. CASE STUDY: Merck & Co., Inc., The Business Enterprise Trust. The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase, Milton Friedman. Can Socially Responsible Firms Survive in a Competitive Environment, Robert H. Frank. The Moral Muteness of Managers, Frederick B. Bird and James A. Waters. Justice. CASE STUDY: The Oil Rig, Joanne B. Ciulla. Distributive Justice, John Rawls. The Entitlement Theory, Robert Nozick. Complex Equality, Michael Walzer. III. CORPORATIONS, PERSONS, AND MORALITY. The Moral Responsibility of Corporations. CASE STUDY: H.B. Fuller in Hondura, Norman E. Bowie and Stefanie Ann Lenway. Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation, R. Edward Freeman. Business Ethics and Stakeholder Analysis, Kenneth E. Goodpaster. The New U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines: A Wake-Up Call for Corporate America, Dan R. Dalton, Michael B. Metzger and John W. Hill. Parable of the Sadhu, Bowen H. McCoy. Employee Rights and Responsibilities. CASE STUDY: The Aircraft Brake Scandal, Kermit Vandivier. Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility, Sissela Bok. Employment at Will and Due Process, Patricia H. Werhane and Tara J. Radin. In Defense of Contract at Will, Richard A. Epstein. Employability Security, Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Diversity. CASE STUDY: Ellen Moore: Living and Working in Bahrain, Gail Ellement, Martha Maznevski, and Henry W. Lane. CASE STUDY: Is This the Right Time to Come Out?, Alistair D. Williamson. Management Women and the New Facts of Life, Schwartz. White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies, Peggy McIntosh. Sexual Harassment, Susan M. Dodds, Lucy Frost, Robert Pargetter, and Elizabeth W. Prior. IV. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS. Ethical Relativism. CASE STUDY: What Price, Safety?, from Uncompromising Integrity: Motorola's Global Challenge. Relativism, Cultural and Moral, Norman E. Bowie
