TY - BOOK AU - Fritzsche,David J. TI - Business ethics: a global & managerial perspective SN - 0072496908 (alk. paper) AV - HF5387 .F75 2005 U1 - 174/.4 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill/Irwin KW - Business ethics N1 - 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 N2 - * 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 ER -