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Fulfilling the need for a practical, applied text, this up-to-date book covers the complex environment in which managers confront ethical decision-making. Through this managerial framework, the authors cover the overall concepts, processes, and best practices associated with successful business ethics programs.
Major attractions
• The book helps students to prepare for real-world ethical dilemmas instead of focusing on intellectual reasoning or a philosophical discussion of ideas.
• “Chapter objectives” give students concrete expectations for what they will learn, and “an ethical dilemma” describes a hypothetical incident and then asks students to consider how it may be resolved.
• “A real-life situation”, or fictional mini-case, at the end of each chapter.
• “Check your EQ” quizzes allow students to assess their overall understanding of the key points in each chapter.
• Out of a total of 18 cases, nine new cases reinforce the text’s applied approach to ethics and cover a range of organizations and topics, such as “Martha Stewart’s insider trading scandal”, “Enron: the case of the tilted ‘E”’, “Tyco international, ltd.”, and “WorldCom.”
• Chapter 10, “Business ethics in a global economy” includes information on best practices, ethics audits, and disaster recovery planning to increase students’ awareness of cross-national ethical issues and develop their strategic skills for planning and working through disasters.
• Instructor’s resource manual with PowerPoint slides contains teaching notes for every chapter including a brief chapter summary, detailed lecture outline, and detailed case notes.
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