Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases (7th Edition) - Softcover

Velasquez, Manuel G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205017665 ISBN 13: 9780205017669

Publisher: Pearson, 2011

Synopsis

Resolving Moral Issues in Business.

 

The ethical landscape of business is constantly changing, and the new edition of Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases has been revised to keep pace with those changes most effecting business: accelerating globalization, constant technological updates, proliferating of business scandals.

 

Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases introduces the reader to the ethical concepts that are relevant to resolving moral issues in business; imparts the reasoning and analytical skills needed to apply ethical concepts to business decisions; identifies moral issues specific to a business; provides an understanding of the social, technological, and natural environments within which moral issues in business arise; and supplies case studies of actual moral conflicts faced by businesses.

 

Teaching and Learning Experience

 

Improve Critical Thinking - Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases provides summaries of basic ideas discussed within the text in its margins; presents conceptual materials first, and then offers discussion cases second through standardized chapters; all providing students the chance to critically think about the material they are learning.

 

Engage Students - Study questions at the beginning of each chapter, definitions of key terms in the margins, a glossary, chapter-end study and discussion questions, end-of-chapter web resources, and chapter-opening concrete examples / cases all ensure students’ complete understanding of the material.

 

Support Instructors - Teaching your course just got easier!  You can create a Customized Text or use our Instructor’s Manual, Electronic “MyTest” Test Bank or PowerPoint Presentation Slides.

 

About this title

Review:

“This book is an outstanding, clearly written, economics-oriented ethics textbook that will fulfill most of your pedagogical needs in any undergraduate business ethics course.”   —Marc Orlitzky, University of Redlands

 

 

“The On the Edge feature boxes have been very useful in the classroom.”  —Barbara Fechner, South East Community College

 

 

“Velasquez has been a standard in Business Ethics for several years. The book is well written and has a number of good cases”   —Rodney Stevenson, University of Wisconsin – Madison

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0205017665
• ISBN 13: 9780205017669
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 504