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Managing Business Ethics
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Managing Business Ethics
And Your Career

Second Edition


January 2025 | 480 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Author
 
Part I: Overview of Business Ethics
 
Chapter 1: Understanding Business Ethics
Importance of Ethics to Business

 
The Future of Work and Business Ethics

 
The Importance of Ethics for Your Career

 
Common Ethical Decision-Making Perspectives

 
Using the 3-Dimensional Problem Solving for Ethics to Improve Your Performance

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
 
Chapter 2: Laying a Foundation: Morals, Social Responsibility, Governance, Stakeholders, and Sustainability
What Are Morals, Values, and Norms, and How Do They Relate to Business Ethics?

 
What Does It Mean to be a Socially Responsible Organization and Individual?

 
How Do Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Activism Influence Business Ethics?

 
What Does It Mean to be Sustainable?

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
 
Part II: Ethics and the Individual
 
Chapter 3: Why Good People Do Bad Things
Personal Factors That Influence Your Ethical Decision Making

 
How Moral Intensity Affects Perceptions of Ethically Challenging Situations

 
The Frequency and Dangers of Moral Disengagement

 
Identifying Ethical Blind Spots and How to Remedy Them

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
 
Chapter 4: Individual Factors That Influence Your Ethical Behavior
Key Personal Characteristics That Influence Your Sense of What Is Right and Wrong

 
Integrity and Courage, a Test of Your Morals

 
Understand and Manage Your Biases

 
Ensure Your Conduct Is Ethical

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
 
Chapter 5: Common Ethical Challenges and How to Handle Them
Managing Common Ethical Issues at Work

 
Employee Monitoring

 
The Line Between Personal and Professional Lives

 
Whistleblowing

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
 
Chapter 6: The Double-Edged Sword of Leadership and Business Ethics
What Is the Role of Leadership in Business Ethics?

 
What Do Unethical Leaders Look Like?

 
What Does It Mean to Lead With Ethical Liability Versus Legal Liability, Character, and Empathy?

 
Why Aren’t All Leaders Ethical, and What Can Be Done About Those That Aren’t?

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
 
Part III: Organizational Influences on Business Ethics
 
Chapter 7: Common Organization Level Business Ethics Challenges
Navigating Ethical Issues When Hiring Employees

 
How to Use AI Ethically

 
Challenges Related to Monitoring Remote Workers and Employee Privacy

 
What You Can and Cannot Say at Work

 
Ethics and Meeting Your Most Basic Expectations

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
 
Chapter 8: Organizational Culture and Business Ethics
What Is Organizational Culture and How Does It Affect Business Ethics?

 
How Does Incivility Reflect and Reinforce an Unethical Organizational Culture?

 
Performance Appraisals, Rewards, Punishment, and Business Ethics

 
How to Create and Foster Ethical Organizational Cultures?

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
 
Chapter 9: The Role of Laws, Codes, and Training in Business Ethics
Explain How Laws and Regulations Influence Business Ethics

 
The Functions and Benefits of Codes of Ethics and Conduct

 
Creating a Relevant and Effective Code of Ethics

 
How to Create an Effective Ethics Program

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
 
Chapter 10: Doing Well By Doing Good
The Environmental, Social, and Governance Approach to Business

 
Conscious Capitalism and How to Build a Conscious Organization

 
The Caux Principles

 
What are B-Corps and Why Would a Company Choose to be One?

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
 
Part IV: Ethics = the Individual + Organization + Society
 
Chapter 11: A Global Perspective of Business Ethics
Business Ethics Challenges When Crossing National Borders

 
Political Risk

 
Leveling the Ethics Playing Field

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
 
Chapter 12: Environmental Sustainability Issues at Home and Abroad
Environmental Externalities—The Environment’s Archenemy

 
Energy, Water, and Air—Can’t Live With(out) Them

 
Regulations are Essential but Not Sufficient

 
What Does it Mean to Be Environmentally Sustainable?

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
 
Chapter 13: The Role of Business in Social Justice And Change
Changing Expectations for Business

 
Business as an Agent for Social Justice and Change

 
How to Solve Income Inequality

 
Potential Remedies for Health Inequalities

 
Reconciling Racial Inequality

 
Chapter Summary

 
Key Terms

 
 
Case Study: Flying High and Flying Low With Boeing
Key features

Part 1 establishes a common language and foundation. Part 2 covers ethics and the individual. Part 3 explores individual ethics within the context of the organization. And Part 4 explores ethics within the global society. 

Applied Chapter Features: 

  • Where Do You Stand? at the beginning of each chapter gets students warmed up and thinking about the chapter content before reading it. 
  • Ethics in Action provides illustrations of ethical and unethical behaviors and practices by real world and often recognizable individuals and organizations.
  • For Discussion use discussion-oriented questions to provoke a conversation about ethical challenges and dilemmas.
  • Chapter Case Studies conclude each chapter with a current and real-world case drawn from a variety of sources such as business news, popular press, and academic research.

Fugate implements a three-dimensional problem-solving for ethics framework throughout the text. This framework has students define the ethical challenge, determine the causes of the challenge, and describe the solutions. Students are asked to apply this framework to the end of chapter cases and supports the development of problem-solving skills

New to This EditionIn summary, this second edition balances how to identify and avoid unethical individuals and organizations that can undermine a student’s job opportunities and satisfaction, with clear guidance on how to be conscientious contributors to their employers, communities, and the global society.

  • 1 new longer case study at the end of the text focuses on Boeing, with case implementation suggestions for incorporating the case into their course assignments. 
  • Discussions of artificial intelligence, cheating and integrity, and countless tensions between benefits and costs. 
  • Supply chain disruptions and resulting global inflation illustrated ethical challenges related to fair pricing and profits. These topics are addressed along with other new material related to product liability.
  • Escalating global crises related to the environment and inequality.
  • The continuing impact of COVID-19 on remote work, personal vs organizational values in healthcare and in general business, and professional codes of ethics. 
  • Freedom of expression issues and increased employee activism for improved pay, benefits, and working conditions 

     

     

 

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