Business Ethics: Case Studies and Selected Readings
Marianne Jennings
8th Edition
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,Table of Contents
Unit 1: Ethical Theory, Philosophical Foundations, Our Reasoning Flaws, and Types of
Ethical Dilemmas
• Section A: Defining Ethics
• Section B: Resolving Ethical Dilemmas
Unit 2: Solving Ethical Dilemmas and Personal Introspection
• Section A: Business and Ethics: How Do They Work Together?
• Section B: What Gets in the Way of Ethical Decisions in Business?
• Section C: Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Business
Unit 3: Business, Stakeholders, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability
• Section A: Business and Society: The Tough Issues of Economics, Social Responsibility,
and Business
• Section B: Applying Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory
• Section C: Social Responsibility and Sustainability
• Section D: Government as a Stakeholder
Unit 4: Ethics and Company Culture
• Section A: Temptation at Work for Individual Gain and That Credo
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• Section B: The Organizational Behavior Factors
• Section C: The Psychological and Behavior Factors
• Section D: The Structural Factors: Governance, Example, and Leadership
• Section E: The Industry Practices and Legal Factors
• Section F: The Fear-and-Silence Factors
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• Section G: The Culture of Goodness
Unit 5: Ethics and Contracts
• Section A: Contract Negotiations: All Is Fair and Conflicting Interests
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• Section B: Promises, Performance, and Reality
Unit 6: Ethics in International Business
• Section A: Conflicts Between the Corporation’s Ethics and Business Practices in Foreign
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Countries
• Section B: Bribes, Grease Payments, and “When in Rome…”
Unit 7: Ethics, Business Operations, and Rights
• Section A: Workplace Safety
• Section B: Workplace Loyalty
• Section C: Workplace Diversity and Atmosphere
• Section D: Workplace and Personal Lives
• Section E: Workplace Confrontation
• Section F: Workplace and the Environment
Unit 8: Ethics and Products
• Section A: Advertising Content
• Section B: Product Safety
• Section C: Product Sales
• Section D: Products and Social Issues
Unit 9: Ethics and Competition
• Section A: Covenants Not to Compete
• Section B: All’s Fair, or Is It?
• Section C: Intellectual Property and Ethics
• The Ethical Common Denominator (ECD) Index: The Common Threads of Business Ethics
Additional components:
• The Ethical Common Denominator (ECD) Index
• Alphabetical Index
,• Business Discipline Index
• Product/Company/Individuals Index
• Topic Index
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, UNIT ONE – ETHICAL THEORY, PHILOSOPHICAL
FOUNDATIONS,
OUR REASONING FLAWS, AND TYPES OF ETHICAL
DILEMMAS
True/False Questions
F 1. A credo consists of how you define yourself by job title and income.
T 2. Part of a credo includes a list of lines you would never cross to be successful.
T 3. An ethical breach is not necessarily a violation of the law.
T 4. Unwritten rules of conduct are part of our normative standards.
F 5. Self-interest is the same as selfishness.
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F 6. Ethical egoism is selfishness.
F 7. Kant would label paying lower wages in developing countries than the wages paid in
developed economies as unethical.
F 8. Kant is part of the utilitarian school of thought on ethics.
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T 9. Kant and Rand do not agree on the importance of self-interest in ethical theory.
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T 10. Locke and Rawls develop their ethical theory on the basis of a tabula rasa.
T 11. Locke and Rawls are contractarians.
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F 12. The Rights Theory is generally associated with Plato and Aristotle.
F 13. Robert Nozick is the leading thinker for utilitarianism.
T 14. Third-trimester abortions would be supported under a Rights Theory.
T 15. Robert Solomon is a proponent of virtue ethics.
F 16. “It’s a gray area,” is an example of ethical analysis.
T 17. “We all don’t share the same ethics” fails to consider common values that do exist in
business.
T 18. Hank Greenberg’s ability to find a way around rules was evident from his conduct as a
soldier in London.