| Preface | 13 |
| 1 | Introduction | 15 |
| 2 | Ethics and Organizations | 61 |
| Business and Social Responsibility | 63 |
| Case Study: Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Ford Pinto | 63 |
| The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits | 72 |
| Milton Friedman Responds | 79 |
| Morality in the Marketplace | 83 |
| Stakeholder Theory | 94 |
| Case Study: EC Technology | 94 |
| A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation | 101 |
| Why I Am Not A Normative Stakeholder Theorist | 115 |
| Corporate Policy Statements | 125 |
| Morals, Management, and Codes | 127 |
| Case Study: Aero Products | 127 |
| Managing Ethics | 133 |
| 3 | Employer Rights | 149 |
| Agents' Duties | 151 |
| Duties of Agent to Principal | 151 |
| Conflict of Interest | 159 |
| Inorganic Chemicals Company's Conflict of Interest Policy | 159 |
| Conflict of Interest | 162 |
| Gifts and Entertainment | 169 |
| Case Study: Corporate Gift Giving | 169 |
| Morality and Gift Giving | 175 |
| Corporate Policy Statements | 179 |
| Trade Secrets and Patents | 181 |
| Case Study: Trade Secrets at Morris Computer | 181 |
| Case Study: Trade Secrets at Atlas Chemical Corp | 183 |
| Trade Secrets, Patents, and Morality | 188 |
| Employee Productivity Monitoring | |
| Case Study: Monitoring Electronic Mail | 197 |
| Electronic Monitoring of Employees: Issues and Guidelines | 203 |
| Downsizing | 213 |
| Case Study: Layoffs at Alexo Plastics | 213 |
| Sign of the Times: Implementing Reductions in Force | 218 |
| Honesty in Communication | 225 |
| Case Study: A Communication Decision at Von Products, Inc | 225 |
| Honesty in Organizational Communication | 229 |
| 4 | Employee Rights | 243 |
| Employee Rights | 245 |
| Hiring | 253 |
| Case Study: Hiring Procedures at World Imports, Inc | 253 |
| Hiring Ethics | 257 |
| Reverse Discrimination | 265 |
| Case Study: A Promotion Decision at Ballentyne International | 265 |
| Case Study: Wage Differences at Robert Hall | 269 |
| Reverse Discrimination | 272 |
| In Defense of Reverse Discrimination | 279 |
| Diversity | 292 |
| Case Study: Texaco: The Jelly Bean Diversity Fiasco | 292 |
| Diversity at Work | 305 |
| Sexual Harassment | 312 |
| A Summary of Sexual Harassment | 312 |
| Discharge | |
| Case Study: A Termination at Pacemakers, Inc | 322 |
| Employment at Will | 322 |
| Just Cause | 331 |
| Due Process | 334 |
| Privacy | 338 |
| Case Study: Fantenetti Valve Corporation | 338 |
| Case Study: LANSCAPE | 346 |
| Case Study: Drug Testing at Explo, Inc | 349 |
| The Right to Privacy | 357 |
| Corporate Policy Statements | 362 |
| Worker Safety | 365 |
| Case Study: AIDS on the Grand Motors Assembly Line | 365 |
| The Moral Right to Know in the Workplace | 369 |
| Whistleblowing | 379 |
| Case Study: Whistleblowing at Northern Airlines | 379 |
| Whistleblowing: Loyalty and Dissent in the Corporation | 384 |
| Whistleblowing | 387 |
| 5 | Ethics and Finance | 393 |
| Case Study: Insider Trading Scenarios | 394 |
| Finance Ethics | 397 |
| Case Study: Dilemma of an Accountant | 411 |
| Ethics in the Public Accounting Profession | 416 |
| 6 | Business and the Consumer | 437 |
| Product Safety | 439 |
| Case Study: Biss v. Tenneco Inc | 439 |
| Case Study: Austin v. Ford Motor Co. | 441 |
| Case Study: Griggs v. BIC Corp. | 443 |
| Case Study: The DES Daughters | 445 |
| Strict Products Liability and Compensatory Justice | 447 |
| Let's Restore Balance to Product Liability Law | 456 |
| Product Safety: Who Should Absorb the Cost? | 468 |
| Advertising | 473 |
| Case Study: FTC v. Colgate-Palmolive Co. | 473 |
| Case Study: Natural Cereals | 477 |
| The Advertising Code of American Business | 489 |
| Ethics and Advertising | 491 |
| In Defense of Advertising | 499 |
| Case Study: Linking Databases at Clickthrough | 510 |
| The Internet and Consumer Privacy | 513 |
| Selling | 523 |
| Case Study: Roger Hixon: Let the Buyer Beware | 523 |
| A Moral Evaluation of Sales Practices | 530 |
| 7 | Business and the Environment | 547 |
| Environmental Responsibility | 549 |
| Case Study: Macklin Mining Company | 549 |
| People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution | 557 |
| Ethics and Ecology | 564 |
| Ecological Ethics | 573 |
| Morality, Money, and Motor Cars | 579 |
| A Road Map for Natural Capitalism | 590 |
| 8 | Multinational Corporations | 605 |
| Case Study: H. B. Fuller in Honduras: Street Children and Substance Abuse | 606 |
| Case Study: What Price Safety? | 622 |
| Ethical Complexities Involving Multinational Corporations | 627 |
| Ethical Dilemmas for Multinational Enterprise: A Philosophical Overview | 630 |
| Ethics in International Business | 638 |
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