Business as Ethical and Business as Usual: Text, Readings, and Cases
1. Introduction to Business Ethics: from Oxymoron to Logic. 2. Five Ethical Theories to Apply to Usual Business Practices: From Secular Saints to Experience Machines. 3. Cultural ChallengesTo Business As Usual: : From Racism to the Rat Race. 4. Feminist Challenges To Business As Usual: : From Sexism to Gender Benders. 5. Privacy Challenges To business As Usual: From Naked Consumers to the CIA. 6. Political and Economic Challenges To business As Usual: From Class to Crass. SECTION A. CAPITALISM VERSUS SOCIALISM. SECTION B. MARKETING AND MORALITY. SECTION C. TOUGH, HARD-BOILED CORPORATE TYPES AND THEIR FINANCIAL EMPIRES. 7. Environmental Challenges To Business as Usual : From the Greenbacks to the Greens & from The Greenhouse Effect to the Green Revolution. Appendices. Appendix A: Guidelines for Writing Papers in Business Ethics. Appendix B: Conventional Wisdom in Self-Contradictory: Why is Common-Sense So Nonsensical? Appendix C: Selected Bibliography of Works on Affirmative Action. Index