Business Ethics

Designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester business ethics course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including case studies, application scenarios, and links to video interviews with executives, all of which help instill in students a sense of ethical awareness and responsibility. This foundation funded and peer reviewed text is free on the web and can be downloaded as a PDF.

The 5th ed of Business Ethics addresses current, intriguing, often complex issues in corporate morality through 53 readings and 30 pertinent case studies. It includes new leading articles, related current cases, and mini-cases based on MBA student dilemmas.
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The authors present to students the essential concepts, ideas, and issues involved in ethics in business and emphasize the individual acting person and what it means to have character and integrity when doing business. This book can be accessed by multiple readers at once.

'Humanistic businesses' are people-focused and conscious of their obligations towards offering value and building positive relationships with all of their stakeholders. This book shows how humanistic businesses become leaders by creating and promoting trust and authenticity and become popular with loyal staff and clients by designing a unique user experience. This book can be accessed by a single reader at a time.

Industrial Evolution is a story of survival. It is about how the small group of committed entrepreneurs introduced in Small is Possible managed to keep their dream alive and thriving through the economic recession,emerging with a model of what a sustainable local economy might look like in a post carbon future.This grassroots account demonstrates that ecological stewardship and enterprise at an appropriate scale can lay the foundation for abundance.This book can be accessed by a single reader at a time.

In this collection of provocative essays, Joseph Heath provides a compelling new framework for thinking about the moral obligations that private actors in a market economy have toward each other and to society. In a sharp break with traditional approaches to business ethics, Heath argues that the basic principles of corporate social responsibility are already implicit in the institutional norms that structure both marketplace competition and the modern business corporation. This book can be accessed by a single reader at a time.

By making the case for sustainability as a fundamental business practice, The Triple Bottom Line became an instant classic when first published in 2006, showing a generation of business leaders how to find their sustainability sweet spot--where profitability merges seamlessly with the common good.

A useful guide to potential ethical issues faced by young people starting out in the workplace, and how to handle them, professional ethics expert Gunsalus uses examples culled from her students and her own experiences to explore various dilemmas and pressures that employees encounter. This book can be accessed by multiple users at once.

Brings together case studies focusing on specific instances of corporate best practices.