Published: August 2011
Page Count: 416
ISBN (Digital): 978-1-4533-2735-7

The Business Ethics Workshop

Version 1.0
By James Brusseau

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This textbook is intended for the Business Ethics course.

The Business Ethics Workshop by James Brusseau focuses on reality and engagement. Students respond to examples and contemporary cases that touch on their own anxieties, desires and aspirations, and this textbook drives that without sacrificing intellectual gravity. It incites student interest and gets to the core of ethical issues.

While many ethics textbooks are burdened with staid discussions of problems faced by IBM executives in the 1980s and similar, those examples may have nothing to do with your students experiences and interests. James, on the other hand, touches on:

> Tom’s Shoes, the social cause juggernaut

> Blogs written by young entrepreneurs in the fashion industry

> The DNA testing of baseball prospects to predict future performance

> The divergent career objectives of the rock band Nirvana’s members

> The Miami police officer working part time as a drug dealer

> The Bernie Madoff fraud

> Chippendales as a career choice

> Workplace ethics at youth trendsetter American Apparel

> An internet message board discussion of CD pirating, both the techniques and the ethics

> Eddy Lepp’s Rastafarian church and farm in California

> The College Board and the economics of the SATs

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1.1 Chapter Overview

1.2 What Is Business Ethics?

1.3 The Place of Business Ethics

1.4 Is Business Ethics Necessary?

1.5 Facebook and the Unavoidability of Business Ethics

1.6 Overview of The Business Ethics Workshop

1.7 Case Studies

Chapter 2: Theories of Duties and Rights: Traditional Tools for Making Decisions in Business When the Means Justify the Ends

2.1 Chapter Overview

2.2 The Means Justify the Ends versus the Ends Justify the Means

2.3 Perennial Duties

2.4 Immanuel Kant: The Duties of the Categorical Imperative

2.5 Rights

2.6 Case Studies

Chapter 3: Theories of Consequence Ethics: Traditional Tools for Making Decisions in Business when the Ends Justify the Means

3.1 Chapter Overview

3.2 What Is Consequentialism?

3.3 Utilitarianism: The Greater Good

3.4 Altruism: Everyone Else

3.5 Egoism: Just Me

3.6 Case Studies

Chapter 4: Theories Responding to the Challenge of Cultural Relativism

4.1 Chapter Overview

4.2 What Is Cultural Relativism?

4.3 Nietzsche’s Eternal Return of the Same

4.4 Cultural Ethics

4.5 Virtue Theory

4.6 Discourse Ethics

4.7 Ethics of Care

4.8 The Cheat Sheet: Rules of Thumb in Applied Ethics

4.9 Case Studies

Chapter 5: Employee’s Ethics: What’s the Right Job for Me?

5.1 Chapter Overview

5.2 Finding Jobs to Want

5.3 Working for Ethically Complicated Organizations

5.4 Case Studies

Chapter 6: Employee’s Ethics: Getting a Job, Getting a Promotion, Leaving

6.1 Chapter Overview

6.2 The Résumé Introduction

6.3 What Am I Worth?

6.4 Plotting a Promotion

6.5 Looking for a Better Job Outside the Company

6.6 Take This Job and…

6.7 Case Studies

Chapter 7: Employee’s Ethics: Making the Best of the Job You Have as You Get from 9 to 5

7.1 Chapter Overview

7.2 Taking Advantage of the Advantages: Gifts, Bribes, and Kickbacks

7.3 Third-Party Obligations: Tattling, Reporting, and Whistle-Blowing

7.4 Company Loyalty

7.5 Stress, Sex, Status, and Slacking: What Are the Ethics of Making It through the Typical Workday?

7.6 Case Studies

Chapter 8: Manager’s Ethics: Getting, Promoting, and Firing Workers

8.1 Chapter Overview

8.2 Hiring

8.3 Wages

8.4 Promoting Employees

8.5 Firing

8.6 Case Studies

Chapter 9: Manager’s Ethics: Deciding on a Corporate Culture and Making It Work

9.1 Chapter Overview

9.2 What Is Corporate Culture?

9.3 The Relation between Organizational Culture and Knowing the Right Thing to Do

9.4 Two Ethically Knotted Scenes of Corporate Culture: Clothes and Grooming

9.5 What Culture Should a Leader Choose to Instill?

9.6 Styles and Values of Management

9.7 Case Studies

Chapter 10: The Tense Office: Discrimination, Victimization, and Affirmative Action

10.1 Chapter Overview

10.2 Racial Discrimination

10.3 Gender Discrimination and Occupational Segregation

10.4 Discrimination: Inferiority versus Aptness

10.5 The Diversity of Discrimination and Victimization

10.6 The Prevention and Rectification of Discrimination: Affirmative Action

10.7 Case Studies

Chapter 11: The Aroused Office: Sex and Drugs at Work

11.1 Chapter Overview

11.2 Is There Anything Special about Sex?

11.3 Bad Sex: Harassment

11.4 Drugged

11.5 The Organization Wants You to Use Drugs?

11.6 Case Studies

Chapter 12: The Selling Office: Advertising and Consumer Protection

12.1 Chapter Overview

12.2 Two Kinds of Advertising

12.3 Do Ads Need to Tell the Truth?

12.4 We Buy, Therefore We Are: Consumerism and Advertising

12.5 Consumers and Their Protections

12.6 Case Studies

Chapter 13: The Responsible Office: Corporations and Social Responsibility

13.1 Chapter Overview

13.2 What Kind of Business Organizations Are There?

13.3 Three Theories of Corporate Social Responsibility

13.4 Should Corporations Have Social Responsibilities? The Arguments in Favor

13.5 Should Corporations Have Social Responsibilities? The Arguments Against

13.6 Case Studies

Chapter 14: The Green Office: Economics and the Environment

14.1 Chapter Overview

14.2 The Environment

14.3 Ethical Approaches to Environmental Protection

14.4 Three Models of Environmental Protection for Businesses

14.5 Animal Rights

14.6 Case Studies

Chapter 15: The Domination Office: The Star System and Labor Unions

15.1 Chapter Overview

15.2 What Is the Star System?

15.3 Questions Provoked by the Star System

15.4 Ethics: Justifying and Criticizing the Star System

15.5 Unions

15.6 Union Strikes

15.7 Case Studies

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James Brusseau

Pace University-New York

James Brusseau (PhD The Pennyslvania State University) has taught philosophy at the Mexican National University, California State University, and the Pennsylvania State University. He is author of Decadence of the French Nietzsche and Isolated Experiences: Gilles Deleuze and the Solitudes of Reversed Platonism. Currently, he teaches at Pace University near his home in New York City.