Work Ethics

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: What Is Business Ethics?

  • What Is Business Ethics?
  • The Place of Business Ethics
  • Is Business Ethics Necessary?
  • Facebook and the Unavoidability of Business Ethics
  • Overview of The Business Ethics Workshop
  • Case Studies

• Chapter 2: Theories of Duties and Rights: Traditional Tools for Making Decisions in Business When the Means Justify the Ends

  • The Means Justify the Ends versus the Ends Justify the Means
  • Perennial Duties
  • Immanuel Kant: The Duties of the Categorical Imperative
  • Rights
  • Case Studies

• Chapter 3: Theories of Consequence Ethics: Traditional Tools for Making Decisions in Business when the Ends Justify the Means

  • What Is Consequentialism?
  • Utilitarianism: The Greater Good
  • Altruism: Everyone Else
  • Egoism: Just Me
  • Case Studies

• Chapter 4: Theories Responding to the Challenge of Cultural Relativism

  • What Is Cultural Relativism?
  • Nietzsche’s Eternal Return of the Same
  • Cultural Ethics
  • Virtue Theory
  • Discourse Ethics
  • Ethics of Care
  • The Cheat Sheet: Rules of Thumb in Applied Ethics
  • Case Studies

• Chapter 5: Employee’s Ethics: What’s the Right Job for Me?

  • Finding Jobs to Want
  • Working for Ethically Complicated Organizations
  • Case Studies

• Chapter 6: Employee’s Ethics: Getting a Job, Getting a Promotion, Leaving

  • The Résumé Introduction
  • What Am I Worth?
  • Plotting a Promotion
  • Looking for a Better Job Outside the Company
  • Take This Job and…
  • Case Studies

• Chapter 7: Employee’s Ethics: Making the Best of the Job You Have as You Get from 9 to 5

  • Taking Advantage of the Advantages: Gifts, Bribes, and Kickbacks
  • Third-Party Obligations: Tattling, Reporting, and Whistle-Blowing
  • Company Loyalty
  • Stress, Sex, Status, and Slacking: What Are the Ethics of Making It through the Typical Workday?
  • Case Studies

• Chapter 8: Manager’s Ethics: Getting, Promoting, and Firing Workers

  • Hiring
  • Wages
  • Promoting Employees
  • Firing
  • Case Studies

• Chapter 9: Manager’s Ethics: Deciding on a Corporate Culture and Making It Work

  • What Is Corporate Culture?
  • The Relation between Organizational Culture and Knowing the Right Thing to Do
  • Two Ethically Knotted Scenes of Corporate Culture: Clothes and Grooming
  • What Culture Should a Leader Choose to Instill?
  • Styles and Values of Management
  • Case Studies

• Chapter 10: The Tense Office: Discrimination, Victimization, and Affirmative Action

  • Racial Discrimination
  • Gender Discrimination and Occupational Segregation
  • Discrimination: Inferiority versus Aptness
  • The Diversity of Discrimination and Victimization
  • The Prevention and Rectification of Discrimination: Affirmative Action
  • Case Studies

• Chapter 11: The Aroused Office: Sex and Drugs at Work

  • Is There Anything Special about Sex?
  • Bad Sex: Harassment
  • Drugged
  • The Organization Wants You to Use Drugs?
  • Case Studies

• Chapter 12: The Selling Office: Advertising and Consumer Protection

  • Two Kinds of Advertising
  • Do Ads Need to Tell the Truth?
  • We Buy, Therefore We Are: Consumerism and Advertising
  • Consumers and Their Protections
  • Case Studies

• Chapter 13: The Responsible Office: Corporations and Social Responsibility

  • What Kind of Business Organizations Are There?
  • Three Theories of Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Should Corporations Have Social Responsibilities? The Arguments in Favor
  • Should Corporations Have Social Responsibilities? The Arguments Against
  • Case Studies

• Chapter 14: The Green Office: Economics and the Environment

  • The Environment
  • Ethical Approaches to Environmental Protection
  • Three Models of Environmental Protection for Businesses
  • Animal Rights
  • Case Studies

• Chapter 15: The Domination Office: The Star System and Labor Unions

  • What Is the Star System?
  • Questions Provoked by the Star System
  • Ethics: Justifying and Criticizing the Star System
  • Unions
  • Union Strikes
  • Case Studies