Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics

The Callista Wicklander Lectures, DePaul University 1991-2005
Herausgeber: Krasemann, Keith W.; Werhane, Patricia H.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collected volume of essays represents the work of scholars from DePaul University who have served a term as the Wicklander Chair in Business Ethics. These essays, which represent written versions of public lectures, focus on a wide range of issues that have bothered and continue to plague ethicists, legal scholars, and practicing managers in business. These issues include the role of self-interest in commerce, moral character, evil and complacency, privacy, spirituality in the workplace, truth-telling, globalization challenges, and the function of narrative.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9780761834366
• ISBN-10: 0761834362
• Artikelnr.: 21756637

Autorenporträt

Keith W. Krasemann is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies and Director of the Regional Center for Asian Studies Development Programs at the College of DuPage. He currently has three books in print: Business Ethics: Problems, Principles, Practical Applications, Quest for Goodness: An Introduction to Ethics, and Questions for the Soul: An Introduction to Philosophy. Patricia H. Werhane holds the Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics at DePaul University and is Executive Director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics at DePaul University with a joint appointment as the Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics at the Darden School, University of Virginia. An accomplished author, teacher, and researcher, Dr. Werhane's most recently co-authored Employment and Employee Rights.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword and Dedication
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Introductory Essay: Promoting Business and Professional Ethics to
New Generations of Civic and Business Leaders
Chapter 4 1. Teaching Professional Ethics: Where, Why, and How?
Chapter 5 2. Can Business Ethics Be Taught?
Chapter 6 3. Corporate Social Responsibility in a Global Economy
Chapter 7 4. The Impartial Judge: Detachment or Passion?
Chapter 8 5. How to Read a Contract: From Self-Interest to Fairness and
Decency
Chapter 9 6. What is Evil?
Chapter 10 7. Technology and Ethics: Privacy in the Workplace
Chapter 11 8. The Ethics of Everyday Life: Social Class and Moral Character
in Women's Narratives
Chapter 12 9. Lying and Lawyering: An Honest Perspective
Chapter 13 10. Spirituality in the Workplace: Individual and Organizational
Transformation
Chapter 14 11. Why Do Good People Do Bad Things? The Challenge of Business
Ethics and Corporate Leadership
Chapter 15 12. "It's Business; We're Soldiers" The Sopranos, Liberal
Business Ethics, and this American Thing of Ours
Chapter 16 13. Tissue Banking: Disclosure, Informed Consent, and the Rule
of Law
Chapter 17 About the Contributors