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Titel:   Business Ethics and Values:Individual, Corporate and International Perspectives
Reihe:   Financial Times
Autor:   Colin Fisher / Alan Lovell
Verlag:   FT Prentice Hall
Einband:   Softcover
Auflage:   3
Sprache:   Englisch
Seiten:   640
Erschienen:   Dezember 2008
ISBN13:   9780273716167
ISBN10:   0-27371-616-6
 
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Business Ethics and Values:Individual, Corporate and International Perspectives

Description

A comprehensive look at the fascinating and complex subject of ethics in business that is both theoretically rich and engaging.

Fisher and Lovell focus on developing ethical awareness and give as much importance to individual conscience at work as they do to socially responsible behaviour at the corporate level and within the global business world.

Business Ethics and Values is suitable for any Business related Ethics, Sustainability or Corporate Social Responsibility course at an upper level undergraduate or Masters level.

 


Features

Key Features

  • Excellent cases, interesting examples and challenging items for discussion put students in a position where ethical questions must be considered and debated.
  • Good critical and international contexts encourage debate on contemporary concerns such as globalization, sustainability, financial regulation etc.
  • Presents issues from multiple perspectives, reflecting the complex and inter-disciplinary nature of the subject.

Supplements

  • Revised and improved PowerPoint slides
  • Good Lecturer notes on the cases and assignments and Lecturers Q&As
  • Video clips for lecturers. 
  • Additional case studies from Harvard University Press (available for purchase).
  • New Podcasts and Weblinks for students.

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New to this Edition

New to this third edition

  • Increased coverage of sustainability
  • Two new longer case studies in the final chapter explore how different perspectives and multiple problems interconnect in real life situations.
  • New Video Clips of interviews with Managers from companies around the world who discuss issues of ethical bearing in their business.
  • New Podcasts for students that discuss how current issues in the news can be viewed from an ethical standpoint.
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Table of Contents

PART A: BUSINESS ETHICS MATTERS: WHAT IS IT AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?
1.  Perspectives on business ethics and values
2.  Ethical issues in business
3.  Ethical theories and how to use them

PART B: INDIVIDUALS' RESPONSES TO ETHICAL ISSUES
4.  Personal values in the workplace
5.  Values and heuristics
6.  Individual responses to ethical situation
7.  Whistleblower or witness?

PART C: ORGANISATIONAL RESPONSES TO ETHICAL ISSUES
8.  Corporate responsibility, corporate governance and corporate citizenship
9.  Sustainability and the responsible corporation
10. Ethical conformance: codes, standards, culture, leadership and citizen power

PART D THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
11. Global and local values  - and international business
12. Globalisation and international business
13.  Moral agency at work and a modest proposal for affecting ethics in business
14.  Concluding integrative case studies

 

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Back Cover

Fisher and Lovell, Business Ethics and Values 3rd edition

Q      How do corporate social responsibilities and good or bad corporate practice impact on business success in a global economy?

Q      Are individuals responsible for the ethical outcomes of companies’ actions, or are companies themselves responsible?

Q      How do you determine what course of action has the best ethical outcome for any given business situation?

Fisher and Lovell offer the reader a comprehensive introduction to the ideas and complexities of the subject of ethics in the contemporary business world whilst making it relevant to today’s business students through the inclusion of frequent interesting examples and activities that put the reader in a position where ethical questions must be considered and debated. 

This third edition offers increased coverage of sustainability and more chances for illustration and discussion of ethics in the messy day to day practicalities of modern business through:

  • two new longer case studies in the final chapter that integrate ideas and issues from the whole book and provide an opportunity to explore how different perspectives and multiple problems interconnect in real life situations.
  • new Video Clips of interviews with Managers from companies around the world who discuss issues of ethical bearing in their business.
  • new Podcasts that discuss how issues in the news can be viewed from an ethical standpoint.

All freely available with purchase of the book at www.pearsoned.co.uk/fisherlovell

“’Business Ethics and Values’ is one of the few available textbooks that allows students to move from understanding more abstract moral argument to concrete business and political context.”
– Matthias Klaes, Professor of Commerce, Keele University and Senior Research Fellow, Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology.

Colin Fisher is Professor of Managerial Ethics and Values, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.

Professor Alan Lovell is Dean of Glamorgan Business School, University of Glamorgan.

Business Ethics and Values is suitable for any Business related Ethics, Sustainability or Corporate Social Responsibility course at an upper-undergraduate or Masters level.

 

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Author

Colin Fisher is Professor of Managerial Ethics and Values, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.

Professor Alan Lovell is Dean of Glamorgan Business School, University of Glamorgan.

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