It's Good Business: Ethics and Free Enterprise for the New Millennium / Edition 1

by Robert C. Solomon Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguishe

Overview

Tackling the most pressing challenges the global world of business will provide in the next millennium, internationally recognized philosopher Robert C. Solomon takes a hard look at the responsibilities and concerns of corporations, employees, and consumers. Solomon considers the demands of balancing profit making with social responsibility, the pressures of addressing sexual harassment and affirmative action in the workplace, and strategies for working within and creating a variety of corporate cultures. Solomon persuasively argues that success does not have to come at the price of integrity. "Good ethics," he concludes, "is good business." Extensive case studies, questionnaires, and problem-solving exercises make this an essential guide for navigating the sometimes treacherous terrain of ethical decision-making in a highly competitive environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847688043
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/05/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	358
Product dimensions:	6.18(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.97(d)

About the Author

Robert C. Solomon is Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Philosophy and Business and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of two other books about business ethics, Above the Bottom Line and Ethics and Excellence. He regularly consults and designs programs for a variety of corporations and organizations concerned about business ethics in the United States and abroad.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Introduction
Part 4 Part I: Ethics and Business: Business as Ethics
Chapter 5 The One-Minute Moralist
Chapter 6 Some Opening Cases
Chapter 7 Why Ethics? The Myth of Amoral Business
Chapter 8 A Personal Ethical Audit
Chapter 9 Fantasies of Black and White: In Defense of Colors
Chapter 10 Compliance, Contributions, and Consequences: The Meaning of Integrity
Chapter 11 Ethics and the Law
Chapter 12 The Limits of Ethics: Business Scum
Chapter 13 Practices Make Perfect: A Better Way to Look at Business
Chapter 14 The Question of Quality
Chapter 15 The Question of Quantity: Is Big So Bad? Strategic Ethics
Chapter 16 The Forces of Change: Ten Ongoing Ethical Challenges
Chapter 17 The Strategic Ethical Response
Chapter 18 Thinking Ethics: The Rules of the Game
Chapter 19 How to Make a Decision: Eleven Steps to Ethical Problem Solving
Chapter 20 The Buck Stops Somewhere: Responsibility
Chapter 21 From Micro to Macro: Seven Levels of Business Ethics
Part 22 Part II: Motivation, Money, and Morals: Micro-Ethics
Chapter 23 Beyond the Profit Motive
Chapter 24 The Entrepreneur: A Hero for Our Time? Business and the Good Life
Chapter 25 Having Fun—and Looking Out for Number One
Chapter 26 Everything Money Can Buy
Chapter 27 Playing Games: Business and the Casino Culture
Chapter 28 The Ethics of Game Theory
Chapter 29 Business and Poker: A Dangerous Analogy
Chapter 30 Is It Ever Right to Lie? (On Truth in Advertising)
Chapter 31 Morality: The Basic Rules
Chapter 32 The Motivation of Morality
Chapter 33 Ethical Styles
Chapter 34 An Ethical Styles Questionnaire
Chapter 35 Strategic Planning—For the Good Life
Part 36 Part III: In, Out, and Up The Organization: Molar Ethics
Chapter 37 What Do You Do? Corporate Cultures
Chapter 38 Corporate Ethics
Chapter 39 Corporate Culture and Ethics Checklist
Chapter 40 Ends, Means, and Methods: The Rationality of Business
Chapter 41 Ethics, Efficiency, and Effectiveness
Chapter 42 As Easy as X, Y, Z: The Meaning of Management
Chapter 43 Pressure and Pyramids: Authority and Autonomy
Chapter 44 Lost in the Corporation: Moral Mazes
Chapter 45 Corporate Codes of Ethics
Chapter 46 The Ethical Advocate: The Board of Directors
Chapter 47 Corporate Loyalty
Chapter 48 A Good Day's Work: The Eclipse of Merit
Chapter 49 Corporate Poison, The System Problem
Chapter 50 Corporate pathology
Chapter 51 Blowing the Whistle
Chapter 52 The Internal Ethical Audit
Part 53 Part IV: Social Responsibility: Society and the Stakeholder
Chapter 54 Why Social Responsibility? "Impact" and the Stakeholder
Chapter 55 Friedman's Paradox
Chapter 56 The Puzzle of Corporate Responsibility
Chapter 57 The Seven Deadly Corporate Sins
Chapter 58 Mergers and Acquisitions: The Ethical Dimension
Chapter 59 Liability in a Litigious Society
Chapter 60 Fairness in the Corporation, Justice in the Marketplace
Chapter 61 The Tragic Antagonism Between Labor and Management
Chapter 62 Equality and Equal Opportunity
Chapter 63 Legal Rights, Civil Rights, Human Rights
Chapter 64 The Right to Dignity: "Harassment" and Sex in the Office
Chapter 65 The Environment: The Silent Stakeholder
Chapter 66 Noblesse Oblige: Business and Culture
Chapter 67 The Social-Responsibility Audit
Part 68 Part V: The New World of Business: A Macro-Ethical View
Chapter 69 Is the Free Market Fair? Spinoza's Worm
Chapter 70 Economics and Ethics: An Untenable Dualism
Chapter 71 Why Business? The Judgment of History: The Ascent of Free Enterprise
Chapter 72 Classical Capitalism: Adam Smith
Chapter 73 The Marx Brothers: Questions That Won't Go Away
Chapter 74 An Ethical View of Capitalism: Costs and Benefits
Chapter 75 Beating the Bogeyman: Regulation and Business Revisited
Chapter 76 International Ethics: When in Rome, or Tokyo, or. . .
Chapter 77 Conclusion: What Do We Stand For? People or Profits?
Chapter 78 Index

Editorial Reviews

Solomon takes an often addressed topic and presents it in a clear and readable manner.. . .The wide range of issues and case studies covered, coupled with clarity and creativity of presentation, makes this book especially valuable to readers seeking an introduction to business ethics....This will be a welcome addition to both academic and professional libraries. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

Choice Reviews

Solomon takes an often addressed topic and presents it in a clear and readable manner.. . .The wide range of issues and case studies covered, coupled with clarity and creativity of presentation, makes this book especially valuable to readers seeking an introduction to business ethics....This will be a welcome addition to both academic and professional libraries. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

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Solomon takes an often addressed topic and presents it in a clear and readable manner. . . .The wide range of issues and case studies covered, coupled with clarity and creativity of presentation, makes this book especially valuable to readers seeking an introduction to business ethics....This will be a welcome addition to both academic and professional libraries. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

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