Business ethics : a global & managerial perspective /
David J. Fritzsche.
- 2nd ed.
- Boston : McGraw-Hill/Irwin, c2005.
- xv, 217 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Business ethics: a global framework -- The importance of ethics in business -- Moral standards -- Ethics and decision making -- The empirical evidence -- Making moral decisions -- Ethics in practice -- Appendix A. United States Bill of Rights -- B. Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Cases.
* Business Ethics: A Global and Managerial Perspective is distinguished by a global perspective and a strong managerial focus * Timely new cases such as "Intel's Pentium Chip" and "French Frigates Sold to Taiwan" show real-world examples of theories explained throughout text * Chapter 6 contains a comprehensive decision support model and a checklist for evaluating ethical dimensions of alternatives * Emphasizes the integrative social contracts approach to business ethics * Twenty original short cases end the book, thirteen based in other countries, covering a variety of ethical issues. Some describe blatantly unethical behavior while others describe situations in the gray area. Fritzsche's: Business Ethics: A Global and Managerial Perspective 2e, integrates sociological theories and codes of morale that a manager might face in the modern business world. This paperback combines research and theory with real world examples and cases, discussion questions, and interactive "what would you do" situations.--Publisher description.