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Business Ethics
Best Practices for Designing and Managing Ethical Organizations

Third Edition
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November 2021 | 784 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Business Ethics teaches students how to create organizations of high integrity and superior performance. Author Denis Collins and new co-author Patricia Kanashiro walk readers through designing ethical organizations using an Ethical Systems Model that outlines best practices for hiring, training, making ethical decisions, and fostering trust. The substantially revised Third Edition integrates the most current research findings; includes three new chapters on corporate governance and stakeholder relationships, global sustainability, and global corporate citizenship; and explores timely topics through new case studies on the opioid crisis, the #MeToo movement, climate change, and business responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Digital Option / Courseware
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    • Assignable Video with Assessment
      Assignable video (available with Sage Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. Watch a sample "What Would You Do?" video.
    • Assignable Self-Assessments
      Assignable self-assessments (available with Sage Vantage) help students evaluate the ethics of an organization or group that they are a part of.
  • LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site.  Learn more.

 
Part I • An Introduction to Business Ethics
 
Chapter 1: Unethical Behaviors in Organizations and Human Nature
 
Chapter 2: The Evolution of Business Ethics
 
Chapter 3: Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Relationships
 
Part II • Onboarding and Training
 
Chapter 4: Hiring Ethical People
 
Chapter 5: Codes of Ethics and Codes of Conduct
 
Chapter 6: Ethical Decision-Making
 
Chapter 7: Ethics Training
 
Chapter 8: Respecting Employee Diversity
 
Part III • Managing Internal Operations
 
Chapter 9: Ethics Reporting Systems
 
Chapter 10: Managers as Ethical Leaders and Performance Assessments
 
Chapter 11: Ethically Engaging and Empowering Employees
 
Part IV • Being an Ethical Citizen in a Global Economy
 
Chapter 12: Global Sustainability
 
Chapter 13: Global Citizenship
 
Part V • Cases
 
Case Study 1: Opioid Responsibility: Big Pharma, Doctors, Consultants, and Patients
 
Case Study 2: Bayer and Monsanto: Acquiring a Global Giant With a Giant Image Problem
 
Case Study 3: Searching for the “New Normal”: The Business Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020
 
Case Study 4: The Happiness Minimum Wage: The Story of Dan Price and Gravity Payments
 
Case Study 5: Volkswagen’s Diesel Scandal: Failure of the Code of Conduct
 
Case Study 6: Troubles in Higher Education: The Growing Dilemma of Student Debt
 
Case Study 7: Deutsche Bank’s Path Back to Profitability: From Corruption to Compliance
 
Case Study 8: Starbucks: A Socially Responsible Firm and a Diversity Crisis
 
Case Study 9: Boeing 737 Max and the Challenger: The Tale of Flying Objects Falling From the Sky
 
Case Study 10: The Wells Fargo Scandal: A Tale of a Toxic Corporate Culture
 
Case Study 11: Uber’s #MeToo Reckoning: Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination
 
Case Study 12: The Paris Climate Change Agreement: Walmart and Amazon as Sustainability Leaders
 
Case Study 13: Corporate Citizen or Public Parasite? Amazon’s Complicated Relationship With the Tax Man

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The LMS cartridge makes it easy to import this title’s instructor resources into your learning management system (LMS). These resources include:

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You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site.

Used the previous version.

Ms Gayla McLaughlin Todd
school of business, The Citadel
January 30, 2023

This publication offers content valuable in various other fields aside from the target subject. I feel that the structure is aligned in an order that allows or easy reference to previous materials as well at enough information to allow for durter research of related. Overall an exceptional work.

Marsha V. McCray
Business Administration, Perdoceo Education Corporation
March 30, 2022
Key features

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

  • The Third Edition is available as a digital option through SAGE Vantage, an intuitive digital platform that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools—including video—all designed to enable students to better prepare for class.
  • Assignable self-assessments (available with SAGE Vantage) help students evaluate the ethics of an organization or group that they are a part of.
  • Three new chapters focus on corporate governance and stakeholder relationships, global sustainability, and global corporate citizenship.
  • New case studies explore timely topics and issues, including the opioid crisis, business responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, the minimum wage, student debt, the #MeToo movement, climate change, and corporate citizenship.
  • Updated “What Would You Do?” opening features give students more opportunities to consider dilemmas based on the real-life experiences of students.
  • Updated data and best practices incorporate the most current available research findings.
KEY FEATURES:
  • A practical and proactive approach to the material introduces students to concepts, cases, and applications that are relevant to their current and future professional lives.
  • An Ethical Systems Model (formerly called the Optimal Ethics System Model) provides students with a framework for creating and evaluating ethical organizations. Ethical Systems Model surveys summarize the best practices discussed in chapters and allow students to assess, benchmark, and continuously improve their own organization.
  • “Up for Debate” boxes offer current controversial business ethics topics that can be used for class discussion.
  • “Ethics in Action” boxes highlight a company implementing ethical practices discussed in the chapter.
  • “Ethical Applications” sections offer advice on how to implement a best practice discussed in the chapter.
    In-depth case studies cover a wide range of topics and companies, including major public scandals at Boeing, Volkswagen, and Wells Fargo; the history of scandals and culture change efforts at Deutsche Bank; and Monsanto’s reputation related to genetically modified organisms.
Vantage Reference: 
Business Ethics - Vantage Learning Platform

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