Business Ethics

Best Practices for Designing and Managing Ethical Organizations

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.

• 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.