Policies and Persons
Casebook in Business Ethics
3rd Edition
Published on 1. September 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
552 pages
978-0-07-024509-9 (ISBN)
Description
This comprehensive collection presents a case-method approach to teaching business ethics, making it ideal for advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in both philosophy and business departments. It contains a wide range of individual, managerial, and corporate cases, many with an international perspective. All cases have been classroom-tested at the Harvard Business School; most have been developed in the field rather than in the library. The third edition is now in softcover for the first time with 15 per cent fewer pages. Nine new cases (of the total 53 cases) cover such topics as labor-management trust, product liability, foreign bribery, the Dow bankruptcy over breast implant lawsuits, and more. A new appendix, "Ethical Frameworks for Management", provides students with ethical frameworks for analysis and a second new Appendix, "Bridging East and West in Management Ethics", discusses certain basic similarities between Asian and Western ethical ideals.
More details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
802 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-024509-9 (9780070245099)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Previous edition
Book
01/1991
2nd Edition
McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
€57.03
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Persons
Kenneth E. Goodpaster holds the David and Barbara Koch Chair in Business Ethics at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Michigan. He taught graduate and undergraduate philosophy at Notre Dame before joining the faculty of the Harvard Business School in 1980, where he taught both M.B.A. candidates and business executives until 1990. Laura L. Nash is Adjunct Associate Professor at Boston University School of Management, and Research Coordinator at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture. She earned her Ph.D. in classics under a Danforth Fellowship at Harvard University. She has taught at Brown, Brandeis, and Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration and has also served as consultant to the Business Roundtable's Task Force on Business Ethics.
Content
Introduction: The Case Method PART I: PERSONAL VALUES Peter Green's First Day: A young man's boss expects him to give an unwarranted discount to an important sales account. Dilemma of an Accountant: A junior accountant strongly disagrees on ethical grounds when his superior overrides on his audit opinions, but the professional standards that should guide his subsequent actions are susceptible to different interpretations. Martha McCaskey: When does consulting become industrial espionage -- stealing the intellectual property of competitors? What can a middle-level manager do if she has doubts about her own behavior and her company's integrity? Ethical Quagmire: Ethics in the consulting business; a specific problem in the context of professional standards. International Drilling Corporation: When (or if) and how to "blow the whistle" on the head of the company. Viking Air Compressor, Inc.: Conflicting views on what constitutes socially responsible corporate behavior and the means of achieving it. PART II: (part contents)