Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases (5th Edition) - Softcover

Velasquez, Manuel G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130938211 ISBN 13: 9780130938213

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2001

Synopsis

This book provides readers with a clear, straightforward writing style, an abundance of examples, detailed real-life cases, and current data and statistics. It aims to 1) introduce ethical concepts that are relevant to resolving moral issues in business, 2) develop the reasoning and analytical skills needed to apply ethical concepts to business decisions, 3) identify the moral issues involved in the management of specific problem areas in business, and 4) examine the social and natural environments within which moral issues in business arise. Chapter topics cover ethics and business, ethical principles in business, the business system, ethics in the marketplace, ethics and the environment, the ethics of consumer production and marketing, the ethics of job discrimination, and the individual in the organization. For anyone in business.

About this title

From the Publisher

Presents a discussion of the concepts of various aspects of business ethics, followed by concrete examples using actual cases of business ethics. This allows students to use and apply the concepts introduced.

About the Author

Manuel Velasquez is the former Director of Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. He is now chair of the Department of Management at the Leavey School of Business at SCU. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles on Business Ethics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0130938211
• ISBN 13: 9780130938213
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 544