Labor Economics or Business Ethics

Labor Economics

Author: George J Borjas

George Borjas' well-received text blends coverage of traditional topics with modern theory and developments into a superb Labor economics book. His integration of theory with facts and coverage of latest research make his book one of the most popular at the middle and upper end of the market.

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Business Ethics: People, Profits and the Planet

Author: Kevin Gibson

Business Ethics offers a structured set of readings with a clear conceptual progression; classic and current topics; and issues that matter to students. But that’s not all: The instructor's resource CD-ROM contains lesson plans, and discussion, essay and multi-choice questions for every reading. A dedicated web site, designed by Dr. Gibson, also allows students access to further research and exploration into their own interests. The cases -- linked directly to the readings -- are deliberately short and provocative, challenging students to take and defend their own ethical analysis.

Kevin Gibson is Associate Professor of Management and Philosophy at Marquette University and the Director of the its Center for Ethics Studies. He is a five-time winner of the Excellence in Executive Education Award from the Marquette Business School.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	The market system and its critics	9
	Elements of the market system	13
	The invisible hand	25
	What is capitalism?	27
	An egalitarian theory of justice	33
	Socialist democracy	39
	The right to eat and the duty to work	43
	How do managers think about market economies and morality?	52
Ch. 2	The theoretical backdrop of business ethics	61
	Thinking ethically : a framework for moral decision making	64
	Judging the morality of business practices : the influence of personal moral philosophies	67
	Utilitarianism	76
	The ethics of duty	83
	Ethics as virtues	87
	A role for virtue ethics in the analysis of business practice	91
	The seven habits of highly effective people : restoring the character ethic	97
	Making sense of human rights	100
	The idea of a female ethic	109
	Feminist morality and competitive reality : a role for an ethic of care?	117
	How good a person do I have to be?	133
	Ethics without the sermon	137
Ch. 3	Leadership, values, and the force of the institution	146
	Managerial ethical leadership : examples do matter	148
	Ethical leadership and the psychology of decision making	158
	Linking groupthink to unethical behavior in organizations	172
	Moral mazes : bureaucracy and managerial work	184
	Adapting Kohlberg to enhance the assessment of managers' moral reasoning	193
Ch. 4	The moral place of corporations	203
	The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits	206
	A stakeholder theory of the modern corporation : Kantian capitalism	211
Ch. 5	Role morality and personal responsibility	225
	Collective responsibility	228
	The moral responsibility of corporate executives for disasters	236
	Workers as agents and corporate responsibility	243
	Contrasting role morality and professional morality	250
	My view on the Pinto affair	260
Ch. 6	Conflicts between individual and corporate morality	262
	Changing unethical organizational behavior	264
	Some paradoxes of whistleblowing	276
	Persons of the year : 2002	287
	Just pucker and blow? : an analysis of corporate whistleblowers, the duty of care, the duty of loyalty, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act	290
Ch. 7	Encouraging morality in business	304
	Creating ethical corporate structures	306
	What can we learn from the U.S. federal sentencing guidelines for organizational ethics?	313
	Breach of trust : leadership in a market economy	325
Ch. 8	Employee issues	335
	Work and family : should parents feel guilty?	338
	Rights in the workplace : a Nozickian argument	349
	Discrimination, harassment, and the glass ceiling : women executives as change agents	353
	Workplace discrimination, good cause, and color blindness	367
	Diversity dilemmas at work	378
	Drug testing and the right to privacy : arguing the ethics of workplace drug testing	392
Ch. 9	Business and consumers	403
	Risk analysis and the value of life	407
	Paternalism in the marketplace : should a salesman be his buyer's keeper	412
	Barbie banished from the small screen : the proposed European ban on children's television advertising	415
	The doctrine of double effect, deadly drugs, and business ethics	424
	Consumer protection - or overprotection?	431
	Business on trial : the civil jury and corporate responsibility	434
Ch. 10	Business and the community	443
	Corporate social responsibility in the 21st century : a view from the world's most successful firms	445
	The ethics of corporate social responsibility and philanthropic ventures	453
	Toledo : failing to deliver	463
Ch. 11	Business from other perspectives	469
	What can eastern philosophy teach us about business ethics?	471
	Business ethics in Islamic context	480
	Guiding principles of Jewish business ethics	484
Ch. 12	Doing business abroad	492
	The price of international business morality : twenty years under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act	495
	Values in tension : ethics away from home	503
	Ethical dilemmas for multinational enterprise : a philosophical overview	513
	The moral responsibility of multinational corporations to be socially responsible	518
Ch. 13	The ethics of globalization	524
	The Lexus and the olive tree	527
	Labor standards in the global economy : issues for investors	535
	One world : one economy	546
Ch. 14	Business and the environment	561
	People or penguins : the case for optimal pollution	566
	Cannibals with forks : the triple bottom line of 21st century business	571
	At the monument to General Meade, or on the difference between beliefs and benefits	583
	Sacrifice to slaughter	595
	Defending the use of animals by business : animal liberation and environmental ethics	599
	Shades of green : business, ethics, and the environment	607
	Cases	619
	The Bhopal disaster	620
	Dow Corning and breast implants	621
	DuPont and Benlate	622
	Enron - from pipelines to pipedreams	624
	The Exxon Valdez	627
	The Ford Explorer and Firestone tires	629
	The Ford Pinto	630
	Genetically modified foods	632
	HealthSouth	634
	The herald of free enterprise	636
	H. B. Fuller and substance abuse in Latin America	637
	Hooters restaurant	639
	Johnson & Johnson and the Tylenol poisonings	640
	Johnson controls	642
	Love Canal	644