Honest Work A Business Ethics Reader : Honest Work A Business Ethics Reader Joanne B. Ciulla Clancy Martin
Robert C. Solomon
Why We Work The Meaning of Work : Why We Work The Meaning of Work “From Curse to Calling: A Short History of the Meaning of Work” Joanne B. Ciulla
The Ancients
Early Christians
Medieval Occupational Ethics
The Renaissance: Work as Creativity
The Reformation: Work as a Moral Quality
Work as Identity
Why We Work The Meaning of Work : Why We Work The Meaning of Work “Hopping On and Off Career Track” Michelle Quinn
Sequencing
Taking Time Off to Raise Children
Returning to Work
Promises and Betrayals on the Job Ethics in the Workplace : Promises and Betrayals on the Job Ethics in the Workplace “Respecting the Humanity in a Person” Norman E. Bowie
Application of Kant’s Respect for Persons Principle to Business
Kant’s Justification of the Respect for Persons Principle
What Does Kant Mean by this Principle?
Promises and Betrayals on the Job Ethics in the Workplace : Promises and Betrayals on the Job Ethics in the Workplace “Exploring the Managed Heart” Arlie Hochshild
Producing Service: The Emotional Style of Offering the Service Is Part of the Service Itself
Emotional Labor
Promises and Betrayals on the Job Ethics in the Workplace : Promises and Betrayals on the Job Ethics in the Workplace “The Employer-Employee Relationship and the Right to Know” Anita M. Superson
Employee Awareness of Dangers in Workplace
Employee Right to Know Not Accorded Full Protection by Law
Nature of Employer-Employee Relationship
Principle of Autonomy: Establishing the Right
Implications of the Employee Right to Know
Promises and Betrayals on the Job Ethics in the Workplace : Promises and Betrayals on the Job Ethics in the Workplace “The Ethics of Corporate Downsizing” John Orlando
The Moral Equality of Workers and Shareholders
Property Rights
Fiduciary Duties
Risk
Contracts
The Utilitarian Argument
Promises and Betrayals on the Job Ethics in the Workplace : Promises and Betrayals on the Job Ethics in the Workplace “The Ethics of Corporate Downsizing” John Orlando
Arguments Against Downsizing
Harming Some to Benefit Others
Legitimate Expectations
Fairness
Applying the Results
Promises and Betrayals on the Job Ethics in the Workplace : Promises and Betrayals on the Job Ethics in the Workplace “Antigay Jokes” Annette Friskopp and Sharon Silverstein
Strategies for Opposing Antigay Jokes
Enlisting Management Support
Fighting Humor with Humor
The “Ouch” Technique
“I Don’t Get It”
Coming Out
“The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business : “The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business “Is Business Bluffing Ethical?” Albert Z. Carr
Pressure to Deceive
The Poker Analogy
“We Don’t Make the Laws”
Cast Illusions Aside
“The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business : “The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business “Replies to Carr” Timothy B. Blodgett
“No Medals for Honesty”
A Matter of “Mutual Trust”
Playing Games?
“The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business : “The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business “Does It Pay to Bluff in Business?” Norman E. Bowie
Carr’s Poker Analogy and…
Labor Relations
Undermining Trust
Undermining the Spirit of Cooperation
“The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business : “The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business “Is It Ever Right to Lie?” Robert C. Solomon
Distinguishing Kinds of Lying
Telling Less Than the Whole Truth
Telling a Biased Truth
Idealizing One’s Products or Services
Giving Intentionally Misleading Statements
Stating Obvious Falsehoods
Stating Vicious Falsehoods
Comments on Carr’s Poker Analogy
“The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business : “The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business “Defining Secrecy – Some Crucial Distinctions” Sissela Bok
Differences Between Lying and Secrecy
Depth of Secrecy (Sacredness, Intimacy, Privacy, etc.)
Distinction Between Secrecy and Privacy
Where Secrecy and Privacy Overlap
Conflicts over Secrecy
Two Presumptions
Equality
Partial Individual Control
“The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business : “The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business “Secrecy and Disclosure” Richard T. De George
Banks’ Obligation to Maintain Confidentiality
Ethically Dubious Uses of Secret Accounts
Banks’ Obligation to Disclose Certain Information
“The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business : “The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business “Giving Feedback: The Consultant’s Craft” Sue De Wine
Feedback
Information on a Person’s Behavior
Information on What Impact That Behavior Can Have on Others
Types of Feedback
Evaluative
Interpretive
Descriptive
“The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business : “The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business “Giving Feedback: The Consultant’s Craft” Sue De Wine
Effective Feedback
Useful Content
Timeliness
Clarity and Accuracy
Tips on Providing Feedback
“The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business : “The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business “Do Management Gurus Lie?” Evan M. Dudick
Consulting Firms and Management
Strategic Management Consulting
Who Watches the Watch-Dogs?
“The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business : “The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business “Self-Deception” The Economist
How Did Enron Depend upon Deceit?
Why Lies Require More Lies
“The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business : “The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business “Lies That Fail” Paul Ekman and Mark G. Frank
Lies Betrayed by Thinking Clues
Lying About Feelings
Feelings About Lying
Fear of Being Caught
Deception Guilt
“The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business : “The Check Is in the Mail” Honesty and Trust in Business “Building Trust” Robert C. Solomon and Fernando Flores
The Misunderstanding of Trust
Trust as an Emotional Skill
Simple Trust
Blind Trust
Authentic Trust
The Good Life : The Good Life “Strategic Planning – For the Good Life” Robert C. Solomon
Planning a Life – Luck or Fate?
Value Questions
Question Yourself
The Good Life : The Good Life “On The Good Life” Aristotle
What Is the Highest of All Goods Achievable by Action?
Life of Pleasure or Wealth
Political Life
Contemplative Life
The Function of Man
The Good Life : The Good Life “On Pleasure” Epicurus
Pleasure vs. Pain
Pleasure Is Freedom from Pain in the Body and from Trouble in the Mind
We Act to Avoid Pain and Fear
Pain Is the Absence of Pleasure
The Good Life : The Good Life “Wealth” Andrew Carnegie
Proper Administration of Wealth
The Use of Great Fortunes
The Problem of the “Rich and the Poor”
The Good Life : The Good Life “Greed” Solomon Schimmel
The Paradox of Greed
Greed as a Source of Unhappiness
The Good Life : The Good Life “Leisure and Consumption” Joanne B. Ciulla
Work and Amusements
Trading Leisure for Consumption
The Good Life : The Good Life “Integrity” Lynne McFall
Coherence
Integrity and Importance
Integrity, Friendship, and the Olaf Principle
The Good Life : The Good Life “Standing for Something” Cheshire Calhoun
Personal and Social Virtues
Standing For
Standing for Something
Integrity as the “Master Virtue”
The Good Life : The Good Life “Your Money or Your Life” Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
Having Enough
The Pleasures of Frugality
Frugality and Self-Respect
The Good Life : The Good Life “Impersonal Interests” Bertrand Russell
The Uses of Impersonal Interests
Relaxation
Sense of Proportion
Happiness and “Greatness of Soul”
The Good Life : The Good Life “Why Ethics?” Robert C. Solomon
Ethical Errors End Careers More Quickly and Definitively Than Any Other Mistake in Judgment or Accounting
Ethics Provides the Broader Framework Within Which Business Life Must Be Understood
Nothing Is More Dangerous to a Business – or to Business in General – Than a Tarnished Public Image
Money, How We Get It, and Where It Goes Accounting, Finance, and Investment Ethics : Money, How We Get It, and Where It Goes Accounting, Finance, and Investment Ethics “Ethical Issues for Accountants” Richard T. De George
Ethical Issues
The Accounting Rules
Regulation and Efficiency
Money, How We Get It, and Where It Goes Accounting, Finance, and Investment Ethics : Money, How We Get It, and Where It Goes Accounting, Finance, and Investment Ethics “Lies, Damned Lies, and Managed Earnings” Carol J. Loomis
Expectations as the Fundamental Reason for “Managing Earnings”
The Fundamental Problem with Earnings-Management
Obstacles in Pursuing Corporate Criminals
Money, How We Get It, and Where It Goes Accounting, Finance, and Investment Ethics : Money, How We Get It, and Where It Goes Accounting, Finance, and Investment Ethics “Arthur Andersen Refugees Reflect on What Went Wrong” Ed Cohen
Unfairly Scapegoated?
Difficult Accounting Due to Complex Business Structure
Money, How We Get It, and Where It Goes Accounting, Finance, and Investment Ethics : Money, How We Get It, and Where It Goes Accounting, Finance, and Investment Ethics “The Individual Investor in Securities Markets: An Ethical Analysis” Robert E. Frederick and W. Michael Hoffman
Exactly What Kind of Investor Are We Talking About?
What Sort of Justification Might Be Offered for Restricting the Investments of At-Risk Investors?
If Some Investors Are Restricted, How Should It Be Done?
Money, How We Get It, and Where It Goes Accounting, Finance, and Investment Ethics : Money, How We Get It, and Where It Goes Accounting, Finance, and Investment Ethics “Finance Ethics” John R. Boatright
Financial Markets
Unfair Trading Practices
Fair Conditions
Financial Contracting
Financial Services
Fiduciaries and Agents
Sales Practices
Financial Services Firms
Financial Management
Balancing Competing Interests
The Level of Risk
Hostile Takeovers
Money, How We Get It, and Where It Goes Accounting, Finance, and Investment Ethics : Money, How We Get It, and Where It Goes Accounting, Finance, and Investment Ethics “What Is Really Unethical About Insider Trading?” Jennifer Moore
Ethical Arguments Against Insider Trading
Fairness
Property Rights in Information
Harm
Is There Anything Wrong with Insider Trading?
Information is Positive
Profit by Creating Inside Information
Free Riders
Deflect Employee Attention to Major Changes Within Company
Money, How We Get It, and Where It Goes Accounting, Finance, and Investment Ethics : Money, How We Get It, and Where It Goes Accounting, Finance, and Investment Ethics “F.I.A.S.C.O.” Frank Partnoy
Derivatives
Asian Fallout
Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice : Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice “Ring of Gyges” Plato
Constraints on Justice
Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice : Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice “On Human Exchange and Human Differences” Adam Smith
Self-Love
Differences in Talents
The Effects of the Differences in Genius and Talent
Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice : Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice “A Latin Viewpoint” Latin Trade
Wal-Mart in Latin America
Economic Justice or Low Prices?
Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice : Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice “Exploitation of Need” Joanne B. Ciulla
Self-Enslavement
Monkey Labor
Wages for Time and Freedom
Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice : Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice “Justice as Fairness” John Rawls
The “Initial Situation”
The Two Principles of Justice
Guaranteeing Justice
The General Conception of Justice
Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice : Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice “Rich and Poor” Peter Singer
Some Facts About Poverty
Absolute Poverty
Relative Poverty
The Obligation to Assist
Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice : Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice “A Capitalist Conception of Justice” Irving Kristol
Social Justice vs. Unqualified Justice
Smith’s Concepts of Justice and Sympathy
A Realistic Conception of Justice
Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice : Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice “Justice Ruins the Market” Friedrich von Hayek
The Immoral Consequences of Morally Inspired Efforts
In the Great Society “Social Justice” Becomes a Disruptive Force
Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice : Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice “The Winner-Take-All-Game” Eduard Garcia
The “Winner-Take-All” Game
“Hollywood-Style” Economics
Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice : Who Gets What and Why? Fairness and Justice “Comparable Worth: A Matter of Simple Justice” Gerald W. McEntee
Comparable Worth
Pro and Con Arguments:
Women’s More Recent Entry into Workforce, etc.
Upset Free Market and Require New Laws
Dissimilar Jobs
Costs Too Much
Is “the Social Responsibility of Business…to Increase Its Profits”? Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory : Is “the Social Responsibility of Business…to Increase Its Profits”? Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits” Milton Friedman
“Business” Social Responsibilities
Corporate Executive Has a “Social Responsibility” in Capacity as a Businessman
Shareholder’s Stakes
Market Mechanism and Unanimity
Political Mechanism and Conformity
Is “the Social Responsibility of Business…to Increase Its Profits”? Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory : Is “the Social Responsibility of Business…to Increase Its Profits”? Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory “Why Shouldn’t Corporations Be Socially Responsible?” Christopher D. Stone
The Promissory Argument
The Agency Argument
The Role Argument
The “Polestar” Argument
Is “the Social Responsibility of Business…to Increase Its Profits”? Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory : Is “the Social Responsibility of Business…to Increase Its Profits”? Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory “Corporate Moral Agency” Peter A. French
Accepting Corporations as Members of Moral Community
Ordinary Responsibility and Ascription
The Subject’s Intentions with Ascription
Corporate Intentions are Reducible to Human Intentions
Corporate Internal Decision Structure
Is “the Social Responsibility of Business…to Increase Its Profits”? Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory : Is “the Social Responsibility of Business…to Increase Its Profits”? Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory “A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation” R. Edward Freeman
The Attack on Managerial Capitalism
The Legal Argument
The Economic Argument
A Stakeholder Theory of the Firm
The Stakeholder Concept
Stakeholders in the Modern Corporation
The Role of Management
Is “the Social Responsibility of Business…to Increase Its Profits”? Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory : Is “the Social Responsibility of Business…to Increase Its Profits”? Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory “Social Responsibility and Economic Efficiency” Kenneth J. Arrow
Improving the Efficiency of Business
The “Used-Car” Argument
Is “the Social Responsibility of Business…to Increase Its Profits”? Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory : Is “the Social Responsibility of Business…to Increase Its Profits”? Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory “The Changing Basis of Economic Responsibility” J. Maurice Clark
Forecast of the Argument
The Swing of the Pendulum
Responsibility and the Liberal Economics
When Innovation Bytes Back Ethics and Technology : When Innovation Bytes Back Ethics and Technology “Intellectual Property Rights and Computer Software” Deborah C. Johnson
The Philosophical Basis of Property
Natural Rights Argument
Critique of Moral Rights In Software
Against Ownership
Consequentialist Arguments
Conclusions from the Philosophical Analysis of Property
Is it Wrong to Copy Proprietary Software?
When Innovation Bytes Back Ethics and Technology : When Innovation Bytes Back Ethics and Technology “Information Ethics in a Worldwide Context” Elizabeth A. Buchanan
Information Inequity
Qualitatively-Grounded Inequities
Information Commoditization
The Internet: Perpetuating Inequity World Wide
When Innovation Bytes Back Ethics and Technology : When Innovation Bytes Back Ethics and Technology “Hacker Ethics” Deborah C. Johnson
Why Hack?
Four Hacker Arguments
Information Should Be Free
Illustrating Security Problems
No Harm Done
Keeping Big Brother at Bay
When Innovation Bytes Back Ethics and Technology : When Innovation Bytes Back Ethics and Technology “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us” Bill Joy
Dystopias
Technological Innovations
Regulation and Creativity
When Innovation Bytes Back Ethics and Technology : When Innovation Bytes Back Ethics and Technology “In Defense of the Naked Mind” Theodore Roszak
“The Computer and General Ludd”
“Meanwhile, Back at the Carnival”
The End of the War Machine?
The Advent of the Money Machine
Edutainment
The Ideal of the Online Commonwealth
A Few More Words…
The Art of Seduction The Ethics of Advertising, Marketing, and Sales : The Art of Seduction The Ethics of Advertising, Marketing, and Sales “The Dependence Effect” John Kenneth Galbraith
The Theory of Consumer Demand
Consumer Demand and Marketing and Salesmanship
The Output of Society
The Art of Seduction The Ethics of Advertising, Marketing, and Sales : The Art of Seduction The Ethics of Advertising, Marketing, and Sales “The Non Sequitur of the ‘Dependence Effect’” Friedrich von Hayek
Cultural Needs
The “Non Sequitur” of the Dependence Effect
The Art of Seduction The Ethics of Advertising, Marketing, and Sales : The Art of Seduction The Ethics of Advertising, Marketing, and Sales “Advertising and Behavior Control” Robert L. Arrington
Manipulation of Human Autonomy or Cost-Effective Information?
Autonomous Desire
Rational Desire and Choice
Free Choice
The Art of Seduction The Ethics of Advertising, Marketing, and Sales : The Art of Seduction The Ethics of Advertising, Marketing, and Sales “The Justification of Advertising in a Market Economy” Alan Goldman
Maximum Efficiency
Maximization of Individual Freedoms
Consumer Relevant Knowledge
Moral Demands
Regulations
Social Effect of Advertising
Rational Choices?
The Art of Seduction The Ethics of Advertising, Marketing, and Sales : The Art of Seduction The Ethics of Advertising, Marketing, and Sales “The Bribed Soul” Leslie Savan
The Sponsored Life
When Watching, Watch Out
Big Lie, Little Lie
Read the Box
Assume No Relationships
We Don’t Buy Products
Promotional Is Political
Shepherding Herds of Individuals
Follow the Flattery
We Participate in Our Own Seduction
The Art of Seduction The Ethics of Advertising, Marketing, and Sales : The Art of Seduction The Ethics of Advertising, Marketing, and Sales “The Ethics of Sales” Thomas L. Carson
Preliminaries: A Conceptual Roadmap
The Common Law Principle of Caveat Emptor
Holley’s Theory
Criticisms of Holley
Toward a More Plausible Theory About the Ethics of Sales
The Golden Rule
Things Fall Apart Product Liability and Consumers : Things Fall Apart Product Liability and Consumers “Liability” Peter Huber
Tort Liability
From Consent to Coercion
Strict Liability
Things Fall Apart Product Liability and Consumers : Things Fall Apart Product Liability and Consumers “Calculating Risks: It’s Easier Said Than Done” John Nesmith
Universal Perception Factors
Control vs. No Control
Immediate vs. Chronic
Natural vs. Manmade
Risk vs. Benefit
Imposed vs. Voluntary
Things Fall Apart Product Liability and Consumers : Things Fall Apart Product Liability and Consumers “How We Got into This Mess” Stanley J. Modic
Product Liability
Who Pays?
It’s Not Working
Why It’s Happening
Impetus from Detroit
Two Crises
Cultivating the Market
A Gloomy Prospect
Solutions Coming
Tort-Law Change
Things Fall Apart Product Liability and Consumers : Things Fall Apart Product Liability and Consumers “Strict Products Liability and Compensatory Justice” George G. Brenkert
Strict Product Liability
Absolute Liability
Assumptions of the Free Enterprise System
Things Fall Apart Product Liability and Consumers : Things Fall Apart Product Liability and Consumers “Fear of Living” Henry Fairlie
The “Fear of Living”
The Groups Who Encourage the “Fear”
Things Fall Apart Product Liability and Consumers : Things Fall Apart Product Liability and Consumers “Too Many Lawyers, Too Many Suits” Warren E. Burger
Too Many Lawyers
“The Litigation Explosion” Walter K. Olson
Commercial Litigation
Overworked System
Necessary Evil?
Contingency Fees
Monopoly of the Field
Things Fall Apart Product Liability and Consumers : Things Fall Apart Product Liability and Consumers “Pinto Madness” Mark Dowie
Ford’s Moral Mistake
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Things Fall Apart Product Liability and Consumers : Things Fall Apart Product Liability and Consumers “The Pinto Case and the Rashamon Effect” Patricia Werhane
The “Rashamon Effect”
The Development of the Pinto
“You Know How to Whistle, Don’t You?” Whistleblowing, Company Loyalty, and Employee Responsibility : “You Know How to Whistle, Don’t You?” Whistleblowing, Company Loyalty, and Employee Responsibility “Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility” Sissela Bok
Nature of Whistleblowing
Individual Moral Choice
“You Know How to Whistle, Don’t You?” Whistleblowing, Company Loyalty, and Employee Responsibility : “You Know How to Whistle, Don’t You?” Whistleblowing, Company Loyalty, and Employee Responsibility “Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing” Michael Davis
The Standard Theory
Three Paradoxes
A Complicity Theory
Testing the Theory
“You Know How to Whistle, Don’t You?” Whistleblowing, Company Loyalty, and Employee Responsibility : “You Know How to Whistle, Don’t You?” Whistleblowing, Company Loyalty, and Employee Responsibility “Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty” Ronald Duska
Whistleblowing
Moral Constraints for Whistleblowers
The “Team Model”
“You Know How to Whistle, Don’t You?” Whistleblowing, Company Loyalty, and Employee Responsibility : “You Know How to Whistle, Don’t You?” Whistleblowing, Company Loyalty, and Employee Responsibility “Four Concepts of Loyalty” David E. Soles
The Idealist Account
The Common Sense Conception
Loyalties as Norms
The Minimalist Account
“You Know How to Whistle, Don’t You?” Whistleblowing, Company Loyalty, and Employee Responsibility : “You Know How to Whistle, Don’t You?” Whistleblowing, Company Loyalty, and Employee Responsibility “Loyalty, Corporations and Community” George D. Randels
Loyalty, Duty, and Virtue
What Is Loyalty?
Loyalty and the Standard Account of Business
Corporate Loyalty in the Postmodern Business World
Think Local, Act Global International Business : Think Local, Act Global International Business “Jihad vs. McWorld” Benjamin Barber
The Clash of the Two Worlds
The Dynamics of their Linkage
Both Make War on the Sovereign Nation-State
Indifference to Civil Liberty
Virtues of Democracy are Lost
Think Local, Act Global International Business : Think Local, Act Global International Business “The Lexus and the Olive Tree” Thomas L. Friedman
Globalization
Lexus Factory vs. Olive Tree
Think Local, Act Global International Business : Think Local, Act Global International Business “Trying Out One’s New Sword” Mary Midgley
Moral Isolationism
Do Barriers Work Both Ways?
Do Barriers Block Praise and Blame?
What Is Involved in Judging?
Think Local, Act Global International Business : Think Local, Act Global International Business “The Ethic of Compassion” Dalai Lama
Nying Je Chenmo
Compassion In Our Daily Lives
Think Local, Act Global International Business : Think Local, Act Global International Business “Values in Tension: Ethics Away from Home” Thomas Donaldson
Competing Answers
Balancing the Extremes: Three Guiding Principles
Defining the Ethical Threshold: Core Values
Creating an Ethical Corporate Culture
Conflicts of Development and Conflicts of Tradition
Think Local, Act Global International Business : Think Local, Act Global International Business “Values in Tension: Ethics Away from Home” Thomas Donaldson
Guidelines for Ethical Leadership
Treat Corporate Values and Formal Standards of Conduct as Absolutes
Design and Implement Conditions of Engagement for Suppliers and Customers
Allow Foreign Business Units to Help Formulate Ethical Standards and Interpret Ethical Issues
In Host Countries, Support Efforts to Decrease Institutional Corruption
Exercise Moral Imagination
Think Local, Act Global International Business : Think Local, Act Global International Business “Doing Business in Dangerous Places” The Economist
Today’s Risks
How to Be Safer
Simmering
Think Local, Act Global International Business : Think Local, Act Global International Business United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Common Standard for All Peoples and All Nations
All Humans Are Born Free
No Discrimination
Life, Liberty, and Security of Person
No One Shall Be Held in Slavery or Servitude
No One Shall Be Subjected to Cruel, Inhumane Punishment
Everyone Is a Person Before the Law
All Are Equal Before the Law and Entitled Without Discrimination to Equal Protection of the Law
Right to Effective Remedy by the Competent National Tribunal for Acts Violating the Fundamental Rights Granted by Law
No One Shall Be Subjected to Arbitrary Arrest, Detention, or Exile
Entitlement to a Fair and Public Hearing
Think Local, Act Global International Business : Think Local, Act Global International Business United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Innocent Until Proven Guilty
No One Shall Be Subjected to Arbitrary Interference of Privacy
Freedom of Movement Within Borders of State; Everyone Has Right to Leave and Return to Own Country
The Right to Seek Asylum in Other Countries; May Not Be Invoked for Non-political Crimes
Right to Nationality; Right to Change Nationality
Right to Marry and Found a Family; Free and Full Consent; Family is the Natural and Fundamental Group Unit of Society
Right to Own Property
Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion
Freedom of Opinion and Expression
Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association
Right to Take Part in Own Government
Think Local, Act Global International Business : Think Local, Act Global International Business United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Right to Social Security
Right to Work; Equal Pay; Just and Favorable Remuneration; Right to Form Unions
Right to Rest and Leisure
Right to Standard of Living Adequate for the Health and Well-Being of Self and Family; Motherhood and Childhood Right to Special Care
Right to Education; Promoting Understanding; Parents’ Choice
Right to Freely Participate in Community
Right to the Social and International Order to Participate in These Rights
Duties to the Community; Limitations Only in Respect for the Rights of Others
No Destruction of Any Rights
Working with Mother Nature Environmental Ethics and Business Ecology : Working with Mother Nature Environmental Ethics and Business Ecology “At the Shrine of Our Lady Fatima or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic” Mark Sagoff
Political and Economic Decisionmaking
Substituting Efficiency for Safety
Liberty: Ancient and Modern
Values Are Not Subjective
Preference or Principle?
The Citizen as Joseph K.
Working with Mother Nature Environmental Ethics and Business Ecology : Working with Mother Nature Environmental Ethics and Business Ecology “People or Penguins” William F. Baxter
Spheres of Freedom Criterion
Waste is a Bad Thing
Every Human Regarded as an End Rather Than a Mean
The Incentive and Opportunity to Improve His Share of Satisfactions Should Be Preserved to Every Individual
Optimal State of Pollution
Difference Between Dollars and Resources
Working with Mother Nature Environmental Ethics and Business Ecology : Working with Mother Nature Environmental Ethics and Business Ecology “Morality, Money, and Motor Cars” Norman Bowie
Business Has No Obligation to Protect the Environment
Business Has the Obligation to Avoid Intervening in the Political Arena in Order to Weaken or Defeat Environmental Legislation
Business Has Obligation to Obey the Law
The Noninterventionist Policy
Working with Mother Nature Environmental Ethics and Business Ecology : Working with Mother Nature Environmental Ethics and Business Ecology “The Place of Nonhumans in Environmental Issues” Peter Singer
Humans and Nonhumans
Speciesism
Nonhumans Have Interests
Equal Consideration of Interests
Examples
The Meat Industry
Working with Mother Nature Environmental Ethics and Business Ecology : Working with Mother Nature Environmental Ethics and Business Ecology “Rain-forest Chic” Jon Entine
Environmental Popularity
Self-Interest vs. “Ethical” Concerns
The Gift that Keeps on Asking Reciprocity and Conflicts of Interest : The Gift that Keeps on Asking Reciprocity and Conflicts of Interest “Nepotism in American Business” Adam Bellow
Nepotism
Old and New
Good and Bad
The Gift that Keeps on Asking Reciprocity and Conflicts of Interest : The Gift that Keeps on Asking Reciprocity and Conflicts of Interest “A Quick Look at the History of Bribes” John T. Noonan, Jr.
Bribes
History of Bribes
Universality of Bribes
Concept Counter to Normal Expectations
Religious Origins
Religious Ambivalence
The Double Message
Bribe/Gift Distinction
Open Bribes
Bribes in Business
Ideologically Neutral
Enforcement of Law Against Bribes
Sanctions Against Bribes
Attention to Contemporary Corruption
Material Injury
The Gift that Keeps on Asking Reciprocity and Conflicts of Interest : The Gift that Keeps on Asking Reciprocity and Conflicts of Interest “Ethics and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act” Mark Pastin and Michael Hooker
History of the FCPA
Ethical Analysis of the FCPA
When the Buck Stops Here Leadership : When the Buck Stops Here Leadership “What Is Good Leadership?” Joanne B. Ciulla
Our Fascination with Pizzazz
It’s Great to Be King!
The Challenge of Consistency
Machiavellianism and Robinhoodism
The Intersection of Ethics and Effectiveness
Unethical or Stupid?
Blinding Morality
When the Buck Stops Here Leadership : When the Buck Stops Here Leadership “Is It Better to Be Loved than Feared?” Niccolo Machiavelli
Moral Qualities in a Leader
When the Buck Stops Here Leadership : When the Buck Stops Here Leadership “The Bathsheba Syndrome: The Ethical Failure of Successful Leaders” Dean C. Ludwig and Clinton O. Longnecker
The Story of David and Bathsheba
Success as an Antecedent to Ethical Failure
The Dark Side of Success
Advice to Successful Leaders
When the Buck Stops Here Leadership : When the Buck Stops Here Leadership “A Kantian Theory of Leadership” Norman E. Bowie
Kantian Leadership and the Development of Autonomy
Kingdom of Ends Formulation of the Categorical Imperative
Subjection to Moral Law
Leader as a Decision-Proposer
The Norms for Decisions
Guiding Principles for Leaders
When the Buck Stops Here Leadership : When the Buck Stops Here Leadership “What Is Transforming Leadership?” James MacGregor Burns
FDR and the Pursuit of Change
Transactional Leadership
Transforming Leadership
Empowerment
Emotions in Leader-Follower Relationships
Charisma
When the Buck Stops Here Leadership : When the Buck Stops Here Leadership “Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness” Robert Greenleaf
Who Is the Servant-Leader?
Everything Begins with the Initiative of an Individual
What Are You Trying to Do?
Who’s Minding the Store? The Ethics of Corporate Governance : Who’s Minding the Store? The Ethics of Corporate Governance “Who Rules the Corporation?” Ralph Nader, Mark Green, and Joel Seligman
Revamping the Board
Election of the Board
A New Role for Shareholders
Who’s Minding the Store? The Ethics of Corporate Governance : Who’s Minding the Store? The Ethics of Corporate Governance “Power and Accountability: The Changing Role of the Corporate Board of Directors” Irving S. Shapiro
Boards Changing for the Better
Five Basic Jobs
Boards Need Windows
Who’s Minding the Store? The Ethics of Corporate Governance : Who’s Minding the Store? The Ethics of Corporate Governance “Who Should Control The Corporation?” Henry Mintzberg
“Nationalize It”
“Democratize It”
“Regulate It”
“Pressure It”
“Trust It”
“Ignore It”
“Induce It”
If the Shoe Fits…
Who’s Minding the Store? The Ethics of Corporate Governance : Who’s Minding the Store? The Ethics of Corporate Governance “Employee Voice in Corporate Governance: A Defense of Strong Participation Rights” John J. McCall
Defenses
Dignity, Fairness, Self-Respect, Health, Democracy
Property Rights Objections
Adjucating the Rights Conflict
Autonomy, Fairness, Utility, Democracy
Conclusion: The Employee Tight to Co-determine Corporate Policy Has Presumptive Force
Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market : Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market “Two Kinds of Commerce” Aristotle
The Art of Wealth Getting
Retail Trade
The Business of the Statesman
Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market : Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market “The Benefits of Capitalism” Adam Smith
The Improvements in Machinery
The “Woolen Coat”
The Complexity and Organization of Fabor
Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market : Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market “Adam Smith’s Relevance to Contemporary Economic Theory” Patricia Werhane
Adam Smith: Hardly a Utopian
Five Conditions to a Just Operation of Unregulated Economy
Perfect Liberty, Internal Self-Restraint, Coordination, Laws of Justice, and Perfect Competition
Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market : Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market “Commodity Fetishism” Karl Marx
Commodity, Use Value, and Exchange Value
The Mystical, Mysterious Commodity
Fetishism of Commodities
Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market : Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market “Reflections on the Triumph of Capitalism” Robert Heilbroner
Socialism vs. Capitalism
Normative Claims
Descriptive Stance
Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market : Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market “Laissez-faire and Education” John Stuart Mill
Authoritative Interference
Legitimate Interference
Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market : Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market “Buddhist Economics” E. F. Schumacher
“Right Livelihood”
The Function of Work
Liberation from the Attachment of Wealth
Character in Economics
Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market : Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market “The Economics of Poverty” Amartya Sen
Reasons for Poverty
Defeating Poverty
The ethics of Famine
Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market : Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market “Pecuniary Emulation and Conspicuous Consumption” Thorstein Veblen
Pecuniary Emulation
Property is the Nature of Trophy, the Accepted Badge of Efficiency
Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market : Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market “The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism” Daniel Bell
Culture as the Most Dynamic Component of Civilization
Legitimation of Cultural Impulse
The Glorification of Plenty
The Liberal Answer to Social Problems
Two Crises
Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market : Is Everything for Sale? The Future of the Free Market “Everything For Sale” Robert Kuttner
The Mixed Economy
Capitalism as Laissez-Faire
Balance of Market, State, and Civil Society