Managing Business Ethics

Preface Acknowledgments About the Author Part I: Overview of Business Ethics Chapter 1: Understanding Business Ethics Importance of Ethics to Business The Future of Work and Business Ethics The Importance of Ethics for Your Career Common Ethical Decision-Making Perspectives Using the 3-Dimensional Problem Solving for Ethics to Improve Your Performance Chapter Summary Key Terms Chapter 2: Laying a Foundation: Morals, Social Responsibility, Governance, Stakeholders, and Sustainability What Are Morals, Values, and Norms, and How Do They Relate to Business Ethics? What Does It Mean to be a Socially Responsible Organization and Individual? How Do Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Activism Influence Business Ethics? What Does It Mean to be Sustainable? Chapter Summary Key Terms Part II: Ethics and the Individual Chapter 3: Why Good People Do Bad Things Personal Factors That Influence Your Ethical Decision Making How Moral Intensity Affects Perceptions of Ethically Challenging Situations The Frequency and Dangers of Moral Disengagement Identifying Ethical Blind Spots and How to Remedy Them Chapter Summary Key Terms Chapter 4: Individual Factors That Influence Your Ethical Behavior Key Personal Characteristics That Influence Your Sense of What Is Right and Wrong Integrity and Courage, a Test of Your Morals Understand and Manage Your Biases Ensure Your Conduct Is Ethical Chapter Summary Key Terms Chapter 5: Common Ethical Challenges and How to Handle Them Managing Common Ethical Issues at Work Employee Monitoring The Line Between Personal and Professional Lives Whistleblowing Chapter Summary Key Terms Chapter 6: The Double-Edged Sword of Leadership and Business Ethics What Is the Role of Leadership in Business Ethics? What Do Unethical Leaders Look Like? What Does It Mean to Lead With Ethical Liability Versus Legal Liability, Character, and Empathy? Why Arent All Leaders Ethical, and What Can Be Done About Those That Arent? Chapter Summary Key Terms Part III: Organizational Influences on Business Ethics Chapter 7: Common Organization Level Business Ethics Challenges Navigating Ethical Issues When Hiring Employees How to Use AI Ethically Challenges Related to Monitoring Remote Workers and Employee Privacy What You Can and Cannot Say at Work Ethics and Meeting Your Most Basic Expectations Chapter Summary Key Terms Chapter 8: Organizational Culture and Business Ethics What Is Organizational Culture and How Does It Affect Business Ethics? How Does Incivility Reflect and Reinforce an Unethical Organizational Culture? Performance Appraisals, Rewards, Punishment, and Business Ethics How to Create and Foster Ethical Organizational Cultures? Chapter Summary Key Terms Chapter 9: The Role of Laws, Codes, and Training in Business Ethics Explain How Laws and Regulations Influence Business Ethics The Functions and Benefits of Codes of Ethics and Conduct Creating a Relevant and Effective Code of Ethics How to Create an Effective Ethics Program Chapter Summary Key Terms Chapter 10: Doing Well By Doing Good The Environmental, Social, and Governance Approach to Business Conscious Capitalism and How to Build a Conscious Organization The Caux Principles What are B-Corps and Why Would a Company Choose to be One? Chapter Summary Key Terms Part IV: Ethics = the Individual + Organization + Society Chapter 11: A Global Perspective of Business Ethics Business Ethics Challenges When Crossing National Borders Political Risk Leveling the Ethics Playing Field Chapter Summary Key Terms Chapter 12: Environmental Sustainability Issues at Home and Abroad Environmental Externalities-The Environments Archenemy Energy, Water, and Air-Cant Live With(out) Them Regulations are Essential but Not Sufficient What Does it Mean to Be Environmentally Sustainable? Chapter Summary Key Terms Chapter 13: The Role of Business in Social Justice And Change Changing Expectations for Business Business as an Agent for Social Justice and Change How to Solve Income Inequality Potential Remedies for Health Inequalities Reconciling Racial Inequality Chapter Summary Key Terms Case Study: Flying High and Flying Low With Boeing