Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases, Books a la Carte Edition (7th Edition)

Velasquez, Manuel G.

ISBN 10: 0205018092 ISBN 13: 9780205018093

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.

 

This Books á la Carte Edition is an unbound, three-hole punched, loose-leaf version of the textbook and provides students the opportunity to personalize their book by incorporating their own notes and taking only the portion of the book they need to class – all at a fraction of the bound book price.

 

Teaching and Learning Experience

 

Personalize Learning - MyThinkingLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.

 

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.

 

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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: 0205018092
• ISBN 13: 9780205018093
• Binding: Loose Leaf
• Number of pages: 504