An Introduction to Business Ethics 5th Edition

Chapter 1 Why Study Ethics? Chapter One Why Study Ethics? Review Questions 1. Describe several reasons why ethics is relevant to business? Can a good business be an unethical business? 2. What are values? What is the difference between ethical values and other types of values? What is the difference between value when used as

Chapter Ten: Businesss Environmental Responsibilities Chapter Ten: Businesss Environmental Responsibilities Review Questions 1. How would you define a sustainable business? What are the three pillars of sustainability? 2. Give examples of at least two market failures and explain how they represent challenges to the free market understanding of business environmental responsibilities. 3. What is the

Chapter 11 Diversity and Discrimination Chapter Eleven: Diversity and Discrimination Review Questions 1. What reasons, other than intentional discrimination, might explain the inequality of wages, employment, and positions of status? 2. Distinguish among equal opportunity, affirmative action, and preferential treatment. 3. When might discrimination in the workplace be justified? Might discrimination on the basis

Chapter 12 International Business and Globalization Chapter Twelve: International Business and Globalization Review Questions 1. Can you identify any ethical values that legitimately can be applied cross-culturally? 2. How far should the principle When in Rome, do as the Romans do extend in international business? 3. Are there any conditions under which an American business

Chapter 2 Ethical Theory and Business Chapter Two - Ethical Theory and Business Review Questions 1. Describe ethical relativism and at least three philosophical challenges to this position. 2. Distinguish between utilitarian, deontological, and virtue-based approaches to ethics. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each? 3. How are utilitarian ethics relevant to business? Explain

Chapter 3 Corporate Social Responsibility Chapter Three Corporate Social Responsibility Review Questions 1. Explain the connection between the classical model of corporate social responsibility and the free market (or neoclassical) economic theory. 2. What are the ethical justifications for the classical model of corporate social responsibility? What are the most significant ethical challenges facing

Chapter 4 Corporate Culture, Governance and Ethical Leadership Chapter 4: Corporate Culture, Governance and Ethical Leadership Review Questions 1. To help understand an organizational culture, think about some organization to which you belong. Does your company or school or fraternity/sorority have its own culture? How would you describe it? How does it influence

Chapter 5 The Meaning and Value of Work Chapter Five The Meaning and Value of Work Review Questions 1. Explain at least three different meanings of the word work. Do any of these meanings include some value component? 2. How would you distinguish a job from a career from a calling? 3. What are the

Chapter 6 Moral rights in the Workplace Chapter Six Moral rights in the Workplace Review Questions 1. Explain the difference between an employees legal rights and moral rights. 2. Explain three different meanings of a right to work. Which, if any, do you think should be among the moral rights of employees? 3. What is

Chapter 7 Employee Responsibilities Chapter Seven - Employee Responsibilities Review Questions 1. Explain how responsibilities can depend upon the relationships one has with other people. 2. How is the relationship between a person and her real estate agent or lawyer similar to the relationship between an employer and employee? How are they different? 3. How

Chapter 8 Marketing Ethics: Product Safety and Pricing Chapter Eight: Marketing Ethics: Product Safety and Pricing Review Questions 1. Explain three general ethical concerns that should be raised in marketing ethics. 2. Describe several ways in which consumers are less than free in making choices about which products to purchase. 3. Explain why caveat emptor

Chapter 9 Marketing Ethics: Advertising and Target Marketing Chapter Nine: Marketing Ethics: Advertising and Target Marketing Review Questions 1. Distinguish between manipulation, deception, and a lie. Does the ethical wrong with these practices depend most directly on the consequences or on the intent? 2. Distinguish between ethically acceptable means of influencing another from ethically