PDF-(DOWNLOAD)-Business, Society, and Government Essentials: Strategy and Applied Ethics

Classroom tested this text uses a case analysis approach to explore the interrelationship of business society and government in today s hightech global community Understanding this interrelationship is core to working in any size company at any levelThe authors hone and crystallize the complex array of vital issues that business leaders managers and employees face in market and nonmarket environments including balancing stakeholder interests being socially responsible dealing with government regulations managing crises establishing media relations and achieving goals in an ethical manner Technical concepts come to life through a variety of cases and case questions thoughtprovoking personal and professional applications ethical dilemmas and practical exercises These skillbuilding elements stimulate critical thinking by exposing students to realworld business concerns An appendix provides information on approaches to case analysis and includes a case analysis table that serves as a model for students and professors. Ethics. Ethical. Management . IMMORAL MANAGEMENT. What. is immoral . management. ? . When. . management’s . motives are selfish and . it . cares only or . principally. . about . its own or its company’s gains. . business, society, and government and explain their interrelationships. Differentiate . the market and nonmarket environments and state how they influence each other. Explain . the nonmarket society and government environments and how they affect business. Ethics, Sustainability, and Stakeholder Management. Eighth Edition. Archie B. Carroll . Ann K. Buchholtz. © 2012 South-Western, a part of Cengage Learning. 1. Chapter 1. The Business and Society Relationship. Quick definitions – Morals and Ethics. (Make a one line note not to confuse the two – . we are interested in . business ethics . – . what society deems acceptable actions by a business. .. Morals: Acceptable behaviour at the level of the individual . Michael Lacewing. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. © Michael Lacewing. Metaethics. What is morality, . philosophical . speaking?. Can ethical claims be objectively true or false?. Are moral properties part of reality?. Eighth Edition. Archie B. Carroll . Ann K. Buchholtz. © 2012 South-Western, a part of Cengage Learning. 1. Chapter 12. Business Influence on Government and Public Policy. © 2012 South-Western, a part of Cengage Learning. Coordinating Council on School Mental Health. Brent Wolfingbarger. Director of Government Ethics. (202) 481-3411. April 26, 2018. What We Do. Advice. Ethics Training. What We Do. Investigate alleged violations of the District government’s Code of Conduct. . Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking, cogent argument and informed judgement. In this book, Adam Briggle and Carl Mitcham help readers to cultivate these skills. They first introduce ethics and the normative structure of science and then consider the \'society of science\' and its norms for the responsible conduct of research and the treatment of human and animal research subjects. Later chapters examine \'science in society\' - exploring ethical issues at the interfaces of science, policy, religion, culture and technology. Each chapter features case studies and research questions to stimulate further reflection. Your friend decides to order a pizza. President Obama decides to authorize the mission that leads to the death of Osama bin Laden. You decide that your business should launch a new product. What do these decisions have in common? They all require using the Three Pillar model of decision making. Our personal, leadership, and business decisions are based on a Law Pillar, a Strategy Pillar, and an Ethics Pillar.The Three Pillar model originated in a leadership course that every Harvard MBA student takes before graduation. The Harvard course is based on three lenses of decision making: economics, law, and ethics. The Three Pillar model expands these lenses by replacing economics with strategy. With this change, the model becomes a powerful tool for personal and leadership decisions, as well as for business decisions.This book takes you through four steps that enable you to use the Three Pillar model for business decisions:Step One: Become a legally savvy leader. This does not require memorization of legal rules. Instead, you should understand how the law works in practice. Various surveys have identified the key legal areas that every business leader should understand: product liability, employment law, government regulation, intellectual property, contracts, and dispute resolution. This book provides briefings on each area and shows how they impact your key stakeholders: customers, employees, government, and investors.Step Two: Become an effective risk manager. After your briefings on the law, you are now ready to focus on the Law Pillar. The Law Pillar emphasizes risk management. This book explains how to manage the legal risks that constitute the main threat to your business success. For example, the chapter on product liability will describe how to make strategic new product decisions, how to isolate product risks by creating subsidiaries, and how to design new products to minimize the risk of being sued for selling a defective product.Step Three: Align the Strategy Pillar with the Law Pillar to create value. Many leaders think that there is an inherent tension between the Strategy Pillar, with its value creation orientation, and the Law Pillar, with its risk management orientation. This book explains how you can overcome this tension and align the two pillars by focusing on the interests of each of your stakeholders. For example, by focusing on customer interests, a process designed to prevent product liability can be transformed into a powerful product development tool.Step Four: Develop an ethical organization. Understanding the Ethics Pillar of decision making enables you to play a leadership role in developing compliance and values standards for your organization. This role requires that you walk the talk by using a principled process for making ethical decisions. By combining the Ethics Pillar with the Law Pillar and the Strategy Pillar, you can become a responsible corporate citizen while at the same time creating value for your shareholders and other stakeholders.Once you master the Three Pillar model for business decisions, you can easily apply the model to personal decisions and to leadership in any organization. Ethical decision-making is often a puzzling challenge for business leaders. News reports describing indictments and guilty verdicts of corporate CEOs provide a sober reminder that making sound ethical decisions requires care and prior study. Ethical Essentials for Business Leaders pulls all the pieces together in a compact handbook designed for both current and future business leaders. The book offers several distinctive advantages: First, it is oriented towards the role and actions of leaders in a business environment so that reads learn how to act in order to influence good ethical decision-making as they assume leadership positions in all types of organizations. Second, it is written from a practically-minded, pro-business viewpoint by authors who have taught and practiced business ethics for many years. Third, it provides a balanced perspective regarding the appropriate role of the leader\'s person ethics, as informed by culture and religious belief, toward shaping organizational ethical decision-making. The book begins with a discussion of six reasons why business leaders make bad decisions, then presents an ethical decision frame-work designed to counter-balance those reasons. In other chapters, natural law is explained, the contributions of eight important philosophers are summarized, the four levels of corporate social responsibility are discussed, and the relationship between laws and ethics is presented. In the final chapter, ten steps are recommended for developing and ensuring an ethical organization. The essential guide to creating an organization ofhigh integrity and superior performance With the high-profile corporate scandals that have taken place in recent years, corporate ethics are more important to a business than ever before. The failure of ethical leadership in an organization is very destructive-it demoralizes the workforce, breeds public distrust, and ultimately results in organizational decay.Based on more than two decades of consulting, teaching, and research, Denis Collins\'s Essentials of Business Ethics is designed with appreciation for your demanding professional obligations, with easy-to-find, at-your-fingertips information. Its nuts-and-bolts presentation provides you with practical how-to examples and best practices on every area of managing ethics inside your organization in a handy, concise format.This brief yet powerful guide presents executives and leaders with timely discussion on:Human nature and unethical behavior in organizations Determining the ethics of job candidates The differences between a Code of Ethics and a Code of Conduct The best practices for managing diversity Using Management-by-Objectives to establish work goals that encourage ethical behavior Performance appraisals that reward ethical behaviors Aligning community outreach with the company\'s mission and assets Handling the environmental change process How to manage three internal communication mechanisms for employees to report potentially unethical or illegal behaviors: an Ethics & Compliance Office, Ombudsman, and Ethics Hotlines Providing a five-step ethics job-screen process and an ethical decision-making framework, as well as guidelines for conducting a variety of business ethics workshops, Essentials of Business Ethics is the only guide you will need containing all the relevant facts on business ethics, all in one place. In this lively undergraduate textbook, Kevin Gibson explores the relationship between ethics and the world of business, and how we can serve the interests of both. He builds a philosophical groundwork that can be applied to a wide range of issues in ethics and business, and shows readers how to assess dilemmas critically and work to resolve them on a principled basis. Using case studies drawn from around the world, he examines topics including stakeholder responsibilities, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and women and business. Because business can no longer be isolated from its effects on communities and the environment, these concerns are brought to the forefront. The book also captures the dynamic nature of business ethics in the era of globalization where jobs can be outsourced, products are made of components from scores of countries and sweatshops often provide the cheap goods the public demands. The Appearance of Impropriety offers a bracing antidote for executives, group leaders, and anyone in public life: A reminder of some basic rules of good conduct that must be taken back from the pundits and bureaucrats that surround us.As Peter Morgan and Glenn Reynolds entertainingly and devastatingly describe, Americans have made legitimate ethical concerns into absurd standards, and wielded our moral whims like dangerous weapons. In this fresh and comprehensive introduction to animal ethics, Lori Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with discussions of ethical theory, urging readers to engage critically and empathetically reflect on our treatment of other animals. In clear and accessible language, Gruen provides a survey of the issues central to human-animal relations and a reasoned new perspective on current key debates in the field. She analyses and explains a range of theoretical positions and poses challenging questions that directly encourage readers to hone their ethical reasoning skills and to develop a defensible position about their own practices. Her book will be an invaluable resource for students in a wide range of disciplines including ethics, environmental studies, veterinary science, women\'s studies, and the emerging field of animal studies and is an engaging account of the subject for general readers with no prior background in philosophy.