Business Ethics, Seventh Edition: A Stakeholder and Issues Management Approach

The seventh edition of this pragmatic guide to determining right and wrong in the workplace is updated with new case studies, exercises, and ancillary materials.

Joseph Weiss’s Business Ethics is a pragmatic, hands-on guide for determining right and wrong in the business world. To be socially responsible and ethical, Weiss maintains, businesses must acknowledge the impact their decisions can have on the world beyond their walls. An advantage of the book is the integration of a stakeholder perspective with an issues and crisis management approach so students can look at how a business’s actions affect not just share price and profit but the well-being of employees, customers, suppliers, the local community, the larger society, other nations, and the environment.
 
Weiss includes twenty-three cases that immerse students directly in contemporary ethical dilemmas. Eight new cases in this edition include Facebook’s (mis)use of customer data, the impact of COVID-19 on higher education, the opioid epidemic, the rise of Uber, the rapid growth of AI, safety concerns over the Boeing 737, the Wells Fargo false saving accounts scandal, and plastics being dumped into the ocean.
 
Several chapters feature a unique point/counterpoint exercise that challenges students to argue both sides of a heated ethical issue. This edition has eleven new point/counterpoint exercises, addressing questions like, Should tech giants be broken apart? What is the line between free speech and dangerous disinformation? Has the Me Too movement gone too far? As with previous editions, the seventh edition features a complete set of ancillary materials for instructors: teaching guides, test banks, and PowerPoint presentations.

 

Joseph W. Weiss is professor of management at Bentley University, where he teaches leadership skills, business ethics, and careers. He received an Innovation Teaching Award and is on the honor roll of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society. He has been a Fulbright Program Specialist, was past chair of the Academy of Management’s Management Consulting Division, and was minitrack chair of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences’ IT/project management track. He consults and advises companies and organizations as a 360-degree leadership assessment consultant.