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ManagementCORPORATE GOVERNANCEBy John Colley and Jacqueline Doyle of University of VA-Charlottesville,Wallace Stettinius and George Logan2006 / 256 pagesISBN-13: 978-0-07-146400-0 / MHID: 0-07-146400-XA Professional Reference TitleCorporate Governance delivers vital information on the smoothand transparent running of your business, with a high-levelanalysis of key governance aspects, from board selection anddirectors’ legal obligations to board and corporate organization.It covers the board’s role in strategy formulation, business planning,and gaining necessary new financing.Environmental Pragmatism: Towards a Consensus on EnvironmentalResponsibility 9.3 Corporate Social Responsibility and the Environment9.4 Business’ Responsibility and Environmental Regulation 9.5 BusinessEthics and Sustainable Economics 9.6 Business Ethics in the Ageof Sustainable Development 9.7 Conclusions Chapter Ten: Diversityand Discrimination 10.1 Introduction: Diversity and Equality 10.2Discrimination, Equal Opportunity, and Affirmative Action 10.3 PreferentialTreatment in Employment 10.4 Arguments against PreferentialHiring 10.5 Arguments in Support of Preferential Hiring 10.6 SexualHarassment in the Workplace Chapter Eleven: International Businessand Globalization 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Ethical Relativism and Cross-Cultural Values 11.3 Cross-Cultural Values and International Rights 11.4Globalization and International Business 11.5 Globalization and thePoor 11.6 “Race to the Bottom” 11.7 Democracy, Cultural Integrity,and Human Rights / Glossary / IndexInternational EditionAN INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS ETHICS2nd EditionBy Joseph R DesJardins, College of St. Benedict2006 / 288 pagesISBN-13: 978-0-07-298900-7 / MHID: 0-07-298900-9ISBN-13: 978-0-07-124437-4 / MHID: 0-07-124437-9 [IE]Website: http://www.mhhe.com/desjardinsSince its inception An Introduction to Business Ethics, by JosephDesjardins has been a cutting-edge resource for the businessethics course. This text is unique in that it encompasses all thatan introductory business ethics course is, multidisciplinarycoverage, critical analysis and integrated perspective of philosophywith those of management, law, economics, andpublic policy.CONTENTSChapter One: Why Study Ethics? 1.1 Why Study Business Ethics? 1.2Values and Ethics: Doing Good and Doing Well 1.3 The Nature andGoals of Business Ethics 1.4 Business Ethics and the Law 1.5 Ethics andEthos 1.6 Morality, Virtues, and Social Ethics 1.7 Ethical Perspectives:Managers and Other Stakeholders Chapter Two: Ethical Theory andBusiness 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Ethical Relativism and Reasoning in Ethics2.3 Psychological Egoism 2.4 Modern Ethical Theory: Utilitarian Ethics2.5 Challenges to Utilitarianism 2.6 Utilitarianism and Business Policy2.7 Deontological Ethics 2.8 Virtue Ethics 2.9 Summary and ReviewChapter Three: Corporate Social Responsibility 3.1 Introduction 3.2The Classical Model of Corporate Social Responsibility 3.3 CriticalAssessment of the Classical Model: The Utilitarian Defense 3.4 CriticalAssessment of the Classical Model: The Private Property Defense3.5 Modified Version of the Classical Model: The Moral Minimum 3.6The Stakeholder Theory 3.7 Summary and Review Chapter Four: TheMeaning and Value of Work 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Meanings ofWork 4.3 The Value of Work 4.4 Conventional Views of Work 4.5 TheHuman Fulfillment Model 4.6 The Liberal Model of Work 4.7 Business’Responsibility for Meaningful Work 4.8 Summary and Review ChapterFive: Moral Rights in the Workplace 5.1 Introduction: Employee Rights5.2 The Right to Work 5.3 Employment at Will 5.4 Due Process in theWorkplace 5.5 Participation Rights 5.6 Employee Health and Safety5.7 Privacy in the Workplace Chapter Six: Employee Responsibilities6.1 Introduction 6.2 The Narrow View of Employee Responsibilities:Employee as Agents 6.3 Professional Ethics and the Gatekeeper Function6.4 Managerial Responsibility and Conflicts of Interests 6.5 Trust andLoyalty in the Workplace 6.6 Responsibilities to Third Parties: Honesty,Whistleblowing, and Insider Trading Chapter Seven: Marketing Ethics:Product Safety and Pricing 7.1 Introduction: Marketing and Ethics 7.2Ethical Issues in Marketing: An Overview 7.3 Product Safety: FromCaveat Emptor to Negligence 7.4 Strict Products Liability 7.5 Ethicsand Pricing Chapter Eight: Marketing Ethics: Advertising and TargetMarketing 8.1 Introduction: Ethics of Sales, Advertising, and ProductPlacement 8.2 Regulating Deceptive and Unfair Sales and Advertising8.3 Marketing Ethics and Consumer Autonomy 8.4 Targeting the Vulnerable:Marketing and Sales Chapter Nine: Business’ EnvironmentalResponsibilities 9.1 Introduction: Environmental Responsibilities 9.2BUSINESS ETHICSPolicies and Persons, 4th EditionBy Kenneth E. Goodpaster, University of St. Thomas, Laura L. Nash,Harvard Business School and Henri-Claude deBettignies, INSEAD2006 / 648 pagesISBN-13: 978-0-07-299690-6 / MHID: 0-07-299690-0This comprehensive collection presents a case-method approachto teaching business ethics. It contains a wide rangeof individual, managerial, and corporate cases, many with aninternational perspective. All cases have been classroom-testedat the Harvard Business School; most have been developed inthe field rather than in the library. 27 new cases (of the total 59cases) cover such topics as labor-management trust, productliability, foreign child labor, business e-ethics, the oil industryand climate control, and more. A new appendix, “CorporateSelf-Assessment and Improvement,” provides a corporate selfassessmenttool for senior management and boards of directorsaimed at increasing ethical awareness and avoiding potentialthreats to an organization’s reputation. The second Appendix,“Bridging East and West in Management Ethics,” has been revisedand updated to discuss certain basic similarities betweenAsian and Western ethical ideals through the Caux Round TablePrinciples of Business Conduct.CONTENTSPART ONE: Personal Values / Introduction / Peter Green’s First Day /Dilemma of an Accountant / Martha McCaskey / Viking Air Compressor,Inc. / Joe Camel’s Mom: RJR and Youth Marketing (A) / PART TWO:Corporate Values: Looking Inward / Introduction / A. “GovernanceIssues”: The Corporate Scandals of 2002 and A Note on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act / Note on the Role of the Ethics Officer / American RefiningGroup, Inc. (A) / H. J. Heinz Company: The Administration ofPolicy (A) / H. J. Heinz Company: The Administration of Policy (B) /B. “Employee Issues”: The Individual and the Corporation 4/27/04 /Lex Service Group, Ltd.: Developing the Guidelines (A) / Lex ServiceGroup, Ltd.: Closing Portsmouth Deport (B) / Lex Service Group, Ltd.:Working Conditions at Inglesby Shipyard (C) / Lex Service Group, Ltd.:The Reading Pallets Theft (D) / Refill Precision Manufacturing, Inc: AMatter of Direction(A) / FBS, Inc.: Ethics and Employee Investments /Waterbee Toy Company (A) and A Note on E-Mail and Internet Privacy/ Webster Health Systems (A) and A Note on the Americans withDisabilities Act PART THREE: Corporate Values: Looking Outward/ Introduction / Tennessee Coal and Iron / Dayton Hudson Corporation:Conscience and Control (A) / Dayton Hudson Corporation:Conscience and Control (B) / Dayton Hudson Corporation: Conscienceand Control (C) / Northwest Airlines: Private Sector, Public Trust (A) /The Bush Foundation: A Case Study in Giving Money Away (A) / AlcoBeverage Company and Moderation Advertising / Note on ProductSafety / Managing Product Safety: The Ford Pinto / Managing ProductSafety: The Procter & Gamble Rely Tampon / Kolcraft, Hasbro, andthe Playskool Travel-Lite Crib (A) / Minnesota Bank, Inc. (A) and ANote on Financial Privacy / Northwest Airlines vs. Wcco-TV: BusinessEthics & The Media (A) / Northwest Airlines vs. Wcco-TV: BusinessEthics & The Media (B) / U.S. Citizen Bank (A) and A Note On the90HED 2007 Management.indd 9010/5/2006 1:24:24 PM