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Format:
Paperback
736 pp.
7.5" x 9.25"

ISBN-13:
9780190497682

Copyright Year:
2019

Imprint: OUP US

Honest Work

A Business Ethics Reader, Fourth Edition

Joanne B. Ciulla, Clancy Martin and Robert C. Solomon

Combining readings and case studies, this text asserts that business ethics is primarily about the ethics of individuals and challenges students to reconcile their personal value systems with standard business practice. With a unique focus on the personal dimension of ethics, this is a practical overview of the ethical issues students are most likely to face in the workforce.

Readership : This is a textbook for undergraduate students in business ethics.

Reviews

"Honest Work is the best business ethics book I have found for the undergraduate course. I particularly like the focus on everyday ethics in the workplace and the orientation to a first-person point of view."
--Susan V. H. Castro, Wichita State University
"Honest Work is excellent overall. I especially appreciate the diversity of topics; the content is all that I could hope for. It addresses topics that are relevant to the working business professional, rather than taking a top-down, 'let me explain it to you' approach."
--Judith Streit, Metropolitan State University of Denver
"Honest Work is very good at highlighting the importance of having a theory of work and not just a theory of business practice."
--J.K. Miles, Quincy University

Preface
Introduction: Getting to Work
1. On the Job: Everyday Ethics at Work
2. "The Check is in the Mail": Honesty and Trust in Business
3. Money, How We Get it, and Where it Goes: Accounting, Finance, and Investment Ethics
4. Who Gets What and Why?: Fairness and Justice
5. Is "The Social Responsibility of Business . . . to Increase its Profits"?: Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory
6. When Innovation Bytes Back: Ethics and Technology
7. The Art of Seduction: The Ethics of Advertising, Marketing, and Sales
8. Things Fall Apart: Product Liability and Consumers
9. "You Know How to Whistle, Don't You?": Whistle-Blowing, Company Loyalty, and Employee Responsibility
10. Think Local, Act Global: International Business
11. Working with Mother Nature: Environmental Ethics and Business Ecology
12. When the Buck Stops Here: Leadership
13. Who's Minding the Store?: The Ethics of Corporate Governance
14. Is Everything for Sale?: The Future of the Free Market
15. The Good Life

For Instructors:
Ancillary Resource Center:
www.oup-arc.com
- Computerized Test Bank
- PowerPoint Slides
- Instructor's Manual
For Students:
Companion Website:
- Self-quizzes
- Key term flashcards
- Suggested web links

Joanne B. Ciulla is Professor of Leadership Ethics and Director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers Business School.

Clancy Martin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Professor of Business Ethics at the Bloch School of Management, and Professor of Philosophy at Ashoka University.

The late Robert C. Solomon was Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Ethics Across the Professions - Clancy Martin, Wayne Vaught and Robert Solomon
Business Ethics - Andrew Crane and Dirk Matten
Making Sense - Margot Northey

Special Features

Focuses on ethics of the individual and challenges students to think about the relationship between the way they do business and the kind of life they want to live.
Over 110 readings - on such topics as the financial crisis, employment issues, globalization, and the future of the free market - cover all aspects of business ethics.
Engaging excerpts from plays, novels, and short stories, as well as more traditional articles and essays, offer diverse accounts of business ethics at work.
Over 70 case studies give students the opportunity to think critically about a variety of ethical issues they may face in the workforce.

New to this Edition

15 new readings address topics like forgiveness, the responsibilities of employers and workers in contingent and fissured employment, keeping promises, innovation and technology, product liability, whistle-blowing, corporate governance, and leadership.
New text boxes on topics such as common types of unethical behaviour, how employers try to buy loyalty, the pros and cons of sweatshops, and what Confucius said about the personal behaviour of leaders.