Managing Business Ethics
And Your Career
Second Edition
Mel Fugate
- Mississippi State University, USA
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Using an applied and practical approach, Managing Business Ethics: And Your Career, Second Edition focuses on the implications of business ethics on students' careers and the organizations where they will work. Author Mel Fugate's conversational tone makes his coverage of concise philosophical and historical foundations of ethics, influential research, and real-world examples approachable for classroom discussion.
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Using an applied and practical approach, Managing Business Ethics: And Your Career, Second Edition focuses on the implications of business ethics on students' careers and the organizations where they will work. Author Mel Fugate's conversational tone makes his coverage of concise philosophical and historical foundations of ethics, influential research, and real-world examples approachable for classroom discussion.
This text is offered in Sage Vantage, an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality Sage textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Unparalleled in its ease of use and built for dynamic teaching and learning, Vantage offers customizable LMS integration and best-in-class support.
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Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
Part I: Overview of Business Ethics
- Chapter 1: Understanding Business Ethics
- Importance of Ethics to Business
- The Future of Work and Business Ethics
- The Importance of Ethics for Your Career
- Common Ethical Decision-Making Perspectives
- Using the 3-Dimensional Problem Solving for Ethics to Improve Your Performance
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 2: Laying a Foundation: Morals, Social Responsibility, Governance, Stakeholders, and Sustainability
- What Are Morals, Values, and Norms, and How Do They Relate to Business Ethics?
- What Does It Mean to be a Socially Responsible Organization and Individual?
- How Do Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Activism Influence Business Ethics?
- What Does It Mean to be Sustainable?
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
Part II: Ethics and the Individual
- Chapter 3: Why Good People Do Bad Things
- Personal Factors That Influence Your Ethical Decision Making
- How Moral Intensity Affects Perceptions of Ethically Challenging Situations
- The Frequency and Dangers of Moral Disengagement
- Identifying Ethical Blind Spots and How to Remedy Them
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 4: Individual Factors That Influence Your Ethical Behavior
- Key Personal Characteristics That Influence Your Sense of What Is Right and Wrong
- Integrity and Courage, a Test of Your Morals
- Understand and Manage Your Biases
- Ensure Your Conduct Is Ethical
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 5: Common Ethical Challenges and How to Handle Them
- Managing Common Ethical Issues at Work
- Employee Monitoring
- The Line Between Personal and Professional Lives
- Whistleblowing
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 6: The Double-Edged Sword of Leadership and Business Ethics
- What Is the Role of Leadership in Business Ethics?
- What Do Unethical Leaders Look Like?
- What Does It Mean to Lead With Ethical Liability Versus Legal Liability, Character, and Empathy?
- Why Aren’t All Leaders Ethical, and What Can Be Done About Those That Aren’t?
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
Part III: Organizational Influences on Business Ethics
- Chapter 7: Common Organization Level Business Ethics Challenges
- Navigating Ethical Issues When Hiring Employees
- How to Use AI Ethically
- Challenges Related to Monitoring Remote Workers and Employee Privacy
- What You Can and Cannot Say at Work
- Ethics and Meeting Your Most Basic Expectations
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 8: Organizational Culture and Business Ethics
- What Is Organizational Culture and How Does It Affect Business Ethics?
- How Does Incivility Reflect and Reinforce an Unethical Organizational Culture?
- Performance Appraisals, Rewards, Punishment, and Business Ethics
- How to Create and Foster Ethical Organizational Cultures?
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 9: The Role of Laws, Codes, and Training in Business Ethics
- Explain How Laws and Regulations Influence Business Ethics
- The Functions and Benefits of Codes of Ethics and Conduct
- Creating a Relevant and Effective Code of Ethics
- How to Create an Effective Ethics Program
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 10: Doing Well By Doing Good
- The Environmental, Social, and Governance Approach to Business
- Conscious Capitalism and How to Build a Conscious Organization
- The Caux Principles
- What are B-Corps and Why Would a Company Choose to be One?
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
Part IV: Ethics = the Individual + Organization + Society
- Chapter 11: A Global Perspective of Business Ethics
- Business Ethics Challenges When Crossing National Borders
- Political Risk
- Leveling the Ethics Playing Field
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 12: Environmental Sustainability Issues at Home and Abroad
- Environmental Externalities—The Environment’s Archenemy
- Energy, Water, and Air—Can’t Live With(out) Them
- Regulations are Essential but Not Sufficient
- What Does it Mean to Be Environmentally Sustainable?
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 13: The Role of Business in Social Justice And Change
- Changing Expectations for Business
- Business as an Agent for Social Justice and Change
- How to Solve Income Inequality
- Potential Remedies for Health Inequalities
- Reconciling Racial Inequality
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
Case Study: Flying High and Flying Low With Boeing
Case Study: Flying High and Flying Low With Boeing
Additional materials
Description
Formerly published by Chicago Business Press, now published by Sage
Using an applied and practical approach, Managing Business Ethics: And Your Career, Second Edition focuses on the implications of business ethics on students' careers and the organizations where they will work. Author Mel Fugate's conversational tone makes his coverage of concise philosophical and historical foundations of ethics, influential research, and real-world examples approachable for classroom discussion.
This text is offered in Sage Vantage, an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality Sage textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Unparalleled in its ease of use and built for dynamic teaching and learning, Vantage offers customizable LMS integration and best-in-class support.
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Using an applied and practical approach, Managing Business Ethics: And Your Career, Second Edition focuses on the implications of business ethics on students' careers and the organizations where they will work. Author Mel Fugate's conversational tone makes his coverage of concise philosophical and historical foundations of ethics, influential research, and real-world examples approachable for classroom discussion.
This text is offered in Sage Vantage, an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality Sage textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Unparalleled in its ease of use and built for dynamic teaching and learning, Vantage offers customizable LMS integration and best-in-class support.
Instructors, see how Vantage works!
Take a brief self-guided tour with our interactive demo
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
Part I: Overview of Business Ethics
- Chapter 1: Understanding Business Ethics
- Importance of Ethics to Business
- The Future of Work and Business Ethics
- The Importance of Ethics for Your Career
- Common Ethical Decision-Making Perspectives
- Using the 3-Dimensional Problem Solving for Ethics to Improve Your Performance
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 2: Laying a Foundation: Morals, Social Responsibility, Governance, Stakeholders, and Sustainability
- What Are Morals, Values, and Norms, and How Do They Relate to Business Ethics?
- What Does It Mean to be a Socially Responsible Organization and Individual?
- How Do Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Activism Influence Business Ethics?
- What Does It Mean to be Sustainable?
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
Part II: Ethics and the Individual
- Chapter 3: Why Good People Do Bad Things
- Personal Factors That Influence Your Ethical Decision Making
- How Moral Intensity Affects Perceptions of Ethically Challenging Situations
- The Frequency and Dangers of Moral Disengagement
- Identifying Ethical Blind Spots and How to Remedy Them
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 4: Individual Factors That Influence Your Ethical Behavior
- Key Personal Characteristics That Influence Your Sense of What Is Right and Wrong
- Integrity and Courage, a Test of Your Morals
- Understand and Manage Your Biases
- Ensure Your Conduct Is Ethical
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 5: Common Ethical Challenges and How to Handle Them
- Managing Common Ethical Issues at Work
- Employee Monitoring
- The Line Between Personal and Professional Lives
- Whistleblowing
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 6: The Double-Edged Sword of Leadership and Business Ethics
- What Is the Role of Leadership in Business Ethics?
- What Do Unethical Leaders Look Like?
- What Does It Mean to Lead With Ethical Liability Versus Legal Liability, Character, and Empathy?
- Why Aren’t All Leaders Ethical, and What Can Be Done About Those That Aren’t?
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
Part III: Organizational Influences on Business Ethics
- Chapter 7: Common Organization Level Business Ethics Challenges
- Navigating Ethical Issues When Hiring Employees
- How to Use AI Ethically
- Challenges Related to Monitoring Remote Workers and Employee Privacy
- What You Can and Cannot Say at Work
- Ethics and Meeting Your Most Basic Expectations
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 8: Organizational Culture and Business Ethics
- What Is Organizational Culture and How Does It Affect Business Ethics?
- How Does Incivility Reflect and Reinforce an Unethical Organizational Culture?
- Performance Appraisals, Rewards, Punishment, and Business Ethics
- How to Create and Foster Ethical Organizational Cultures?
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 9: The Role of Laws, Codes, and Training in Business Ethics
- Explain How Laws and Regulations Influence Business Ethics
- The Functions and Benefits of Codes of Ethics and Conduct
- Creating a Relevant and Effective Code of Ethics
- How to Create an Effective Ethics Program
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 10: Doing Well By Doing Good
- The Environmental, Social, and Governance Approach to Business
- Conscious Capitalism and How to Build a Conscious Organization
- The Caux Principles
- What are B-Corps and Why Would a Company Choose to be One?
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
Part IV: Ethics = the Individual + Organization + Society
- Chapter 11: A Global Perspective of Business Ethics
- Business Ethics Challenges When Crossing National Borders
- Political Risk
- Leveling the Ethics Playing Field
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 12: Environmental Sustainability Issues at Home and Abroad
- Environmental Externalities—The Environment’s Archenemy
- Energy, Water, and Air—Can’t Live With(out) Them
- Regulations are Essential but Not Sufficient
- What Does it Mean to Be Environmentally Sustainable?
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 13: The Role of Business in Social Justice And Change
- Changing Expectations for Business
- Business as an Agent for Social Justice and Change
- How to Solve Income Inequality
- Potential Remedies for Health Inequalities
- Reconciling Racial Inequality
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
Case Study: Flying High and Flying Low With Boeing
Case Study: Flying High and Flying Low With Boeing
Additional materials
Reviews
December 2024 | 472 pages | Sage US
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Formerly published by Chicago Business Press, now published by Sage
Using an applied and practical approach, Managing Business Ethics: And Your Career, Second Edition focuses on the implications of business ethics on students' careers and the organizations where they will work. Author Mel Fugate's conversational tone makes his coverage of concise philosophical and historical foundations of ethics, influential research, and real-world examples approachable for classroom discussion.
This text is offered in Sage Vantage, an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality Sage textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Unparalleled in its ease of use and built for dynamic teaching and learning, Vantage offers customizable LMS integration and best-in-class support.
Instructors, see how Vantage works!
Take a brief self-guided tour with our interactive demo
Using an applied and practical approach, Managing Business Ethics: And Your Career, Second Edition focuses on the implications of business ethics on students' careers and the organizations where they will work. Author Mel Fugate's conversational tone makes his coverage of concise philosophical and historical foundations of ethics, influential research, and real-world examples approachable for classroom discussion.
This text is offered in Sage Vantage, an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality Sage textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Unparalleled in its ease of use and built for dynamic teaching and learning, Vantage offers customizable LMS integration and best-in-class support.
Instructors, see how Vantage works!
Take a brief self-guided tour with our interactive demo
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Part I: Overview of Business Ethics
- Chapter 1: Understanding Business Ethics
- Importance of Ethics to Business
- The Future of Work and Business Ethics
- The Importance of Ethics for Your Career
- Common Ethical Decision-Making Perspectives
- Using the 3-Dimensional Problem Solving for Ethics to Improve Your Performance
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 2: Laying a Foundation: Morals, Social Responsibility, Governance, Stakeholders, and Sustainability
- What Are Morals, Values, and Norms, and How Do They Relate to Business Ethics?
- What Does It Mean to be a Socially Responsible Organization and Individual?
- How Do Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Activism Influence Business Ethics?
- What Does It Mean to be Sustainable?
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Part II: Ethics and the Individual
- Chapter 3: Why Good People Do Bad Things
- Personal Factors That Influence Your Ethical Decision Making
- How Moral Intensity Affects Perceptions of Ethically Challenging Situations
- The Frequency and Dangers of Moral Disengagement
- Identifying Ethical Blind Spots and How to Remedy Them
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 4: Individual Factors That Influence Your Ethical Behavior
- Key Personal Characteristics That Influence Your Sense of What Is Right and Wrong
- Integrity and Courage, a Test of Your Morals
- Understand and Manage Your Biases
- Ensure Your Conduct Is Ethical
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 5: Common Ethical Challenges and How to Handle Them
- Managing Common Ethical Issues at Work
- Employee Monitoring
- The Line Between Personal and Professional Lives
- Whistleblowing
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 6: The Double-Edged Sword of Leadership and Business Ethics
- What Is the Role of Leadership in Business Ethics?
- What Do Unethical Leaders Look Like?
- What Does It Mean to Lead With Ethical Liability Versus Legal Liability, Character, and Empathy?
- Why Aren’t All Leaders Ethical, and What Can Be Done About Those That Aren’t?
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Part III: Organizational Influences on Business Ethics
- Chapter 7: Common Organization Level Business Ethics Challenges
- Navigating Ethical Issues When Hiring Employees
- How to Use AI Ethically
- Challenges Related to Monitoring Remote Workers and Employee Privacy
- What You Can and Cannot Say at Work
- Ethics and Meeting Your Most Basic Expectations
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 8: Organizational Culture and Business Ethics
- What Is Organizational Culture and How Does It Affect Business Ethics?
- How Does Incivility Reflect and Reinforce an Unethical Organizational Culture?
- Performance Appraisals, Rewards, Punishment, and Business Ethics
- How to Create and Foster Ethical Organizational Cultures?
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 9: The Role of Laws, Codes, and Training in Business Ethics
- Explain How Laws and Regulations Influence Business Ethics
- The Functions and Benefits of Codes of Ethics and Conduct
- Creating a Relevant and Effective Code of Ethics
- How to Create an Effective Ethics Program
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 10: Doing Well By Doing Good
- The Environmental, Social, and Governance Approach to Business
- Conscious Capitalism and How to Build a Conscious Organization
- The Caux Principles
- What are B-Corps and Why Would a Company Choose to be One?
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Part IV: Ethics = the Individual + Organization + Society
- Chapter 11: A Global Perspective of Business Ethics
- Business Ethics Challenges When Crossing National Borders
- Political Risk
- Leveling the Ethics Playing Field
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 12: Environmental Sustainability Issues at Home and Abroad
- Environmental Externalities—The Environment’s Archenemy
- Energy, Water, and Air—Can’t Live With(out) Them
- Regulations are Essential but Not Sufficient
- What Does it Mean to Be Environmentally Sustainable?
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 13: The Role of Business in Social Justice And Change
- Changing Expectations for Business
- Business as an Agent for Social Justice and Change
- How to Solve Income Inequality
- Potential Remedies for Health Inequalities
- Reconciling Racial Inequality
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Case Study: Flying High and Flying Low With Boeing
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