Acknowledgements.
UNIT 1: ETHICAL THEORY, PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS, OUR REASONING
FLAWS, AND TYPES OF ETHICAL DILEMMAS.
Section A: Defining Ethics.
Reading 1.1 You, Your Values, and a Credo. Reading 1.2 The Parable
of the Sadhu. Reading 1.3 What Are Ethics? From Line-Cutting to
Kant. Reading 1.4 The Types of Ethical Dilemmas: From Truth to
Honesty to Conflicts. Reading 1.5 On Rationalizing and Labeling:
The Things We Do That Make Us Uncomfortable, But We Do Them Anyway.
Case 1.6 I Was Just Following Orders": The CIA, Interrogation, and
the Role of Legal Opinions. Reading 1.6 The Slippery Slope, the
Blurred Lines, and How We Never Do Just One Thing. Case 1.7 Hank
Greenberg and AIG and Steve Cohen and SAC Capital Section B:
Resolving Ethical Dilemmas.
Reading 1.8 Some Simple Tests for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas.
Reading 1.9 Some Steps for Analyzing Ethical Dilemmas. Reading 1.10
On Plagiarism. Case 1.11 The Little Teacher Who Could: Piper,
Kansas and Term Papers. Case 1.12 Dog Walkers and Scoopers. Case
1.13 Puffing Your R�sum�. Case 1.14 Dad, the Actuary, and the Stats
Class. Case 1.15 Wi-Fi Piggybacking.
Case 1.16 Stuyvesant High School and the Cheating Culture of
Excellence. Case 1.17 The Rigged Election. Case 1.18 Speeding: You
Can't Survive on the Roads Unless You Do. Case 1.19 Hazing,
Drinking, and Campuses. Case 1.20 The Pack of Gum.
UNIT 2: SOLVING ETHICAL DILEMMAS AND PERSONAL INTROSPECTION.
Section A: Business and Ethics: How do they work together?
Reading 2.1 What's Different about Business Ethics? Reading 2.2 The
Ethics of Responsibility. Reading 2.3 Is Business Bluffing
Ethical?
Section B: What Gets in the way of ethical decisions in
business?
Reading 2.4 How Leaders Lose Their Way: What Price Hubris? Reading
2.5 Moral Relativism and the Either/Or Conundrum. Reading 2.6
P=�(x) The Probability of an Ethical Outcome Is a Function of the
Amount of Money Involved: Pressure. Case 2.7 MF Global, Jon
Corzine, and a Bankruptcy. Case 2.8 CEOs, Lance Armstrong, Manti
Te'o, Tiger Woods, Deception, and Public Perception.
Section C: Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Business.
Reading 2.9 Framing Issues Carefully: A Structured Approach for
Solving Ethical Dilemmas and Trying Out Your Ethical Skills on Some
Business Cases. Case 2.10 Galleon Hedge Fund: Expert Networks,
Friendly Discussions or Insider Trading? Case 2.11 What Was Up with
Wall Street? The Goldman Standard and Shades of Gray. Case 2.12
Making Believe We Are At Work or Being Loyal: The Alibis of
Technology. Case 2.13 Make Believe Reality TV: Storage Wars and
Reconstructed Home Sales. Case 2.14 Travel Expenses: A Chance for
Extra Income.
Case 2.15 Do Cheaters Prosper? Case 2.16 The Home Repair Contractor
Tempted by Customers and Contractors. Case 2.17 Penn State: Framing
Ethical Issues. Case 2.18 Olympus: Framing Ethical Issues.
UNIT 3: BUSINESS, STAKEHOLDERS, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND
SUSTAINABILITY.
Section A: Business and Society: The Tough Issues of Economics,
Social Responsibility, and Business.
Reading 3.1 The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase
Profits. Reading 3.2 A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern
Corporation. Reading 3.3 Business with a Soul: A Reexamination of
What Counts in Business Ethics. Reading 3.4 Appeasing Stakeholders
with Public Relations. Reading 3.5 John Mackey on Capitalism and
the Corporation. Reading 3.6 Marjorie Kelly and the Divine Right of
Capital. Reading 3.7 Schools of Thought on Social
Responsibility.
Section B: Applying social responsibility and stakeholder
theory.
Case 3.8 Skittles, Trayvon Martin, and Social Responsibility. Case
3.9 Guns, Stock Prices, Safety, Liability, and Social
Responsibility. Case 3.10 The Craigslist Connections: Facilitating
Crime? Case 3.11 The Race for the Cure and Planned Parenthood
Backlash. Reading 3.12 The Regulatory Cycle, Social Responsibility,
Business Strategy, and Equilibrium. Case 3.13 Fannie, Freddie, Wall
Street, Main Street, and the Subprime Mortgage Market: Of Moral
Hazards and ReFis. Case 3.14 Cruises, Comfort, and Cost. Case 3.15
Ice-T, the Body Count Album, and Shareholder Uprisings. Case 3.16
Athletes and Doping: Costs, Consequences, and Profits.
Reading 3.17 Stock Options, Backdating, and Disclosure Options:
What Happened Here? Case 3.18 Back Treatments and Meningitis in an
Under-the-Radar Industry.
Section C: Social responsibility and sustainability.
Reading 3.19 The New Environmentalism.
Case 3.20 GM, the Volt, and Halted Sales and Production. Case 3.21
Buying Local: The Safety Issues in Farmers' Markets. Case 3.22
Global Warming Data. Case 3.23 Biofuels and Food Shortages in
Guatemala. Case 3.24 The Dictator's Wife in Louboutin Shoes
Featured in Vogue Magazine. Case 3.25 Herman Miller and Its Rain
Forest Chairs.
Section D: Government as a Stakeholder.
Case 3.26 Solyndra: Bankruptcy of Solar Resources? Case 3.27
Stanford University and Government Payment for Research. Case 3.28
Minority-Owned Businesses and Reality. Case 3.29 Prosecutorial
Misconduct: Ends Justifying Means? Case 3.29 Health Care: Whose
Responsibility? Whose Cost?
UNIT 4: ETHICS AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE.
Section A: Temptation at work for individual gain and that
credo.
Reading 4.1 The Moving Line. Reading 4.2 Not All Employees Are
Equal When It Comes to Moral Development. Reading 4.3 Why
Corporations Can't Control Chicanery. Case 4.4 Swiping Oreos at
Work: Is It a Big Deal? Case 4.5 A Primer on Accounting Issues and
Ethics: Earnings Management, Smoothing Earnings, and Manipulation.
Case 4.6 Law School Application Consultants. Case 4.7 The MyTai
Concession and Ferragamo Shoes and the County Supervisors.
Section B: The Organizational Behavior factors.
Reading 4.8 The Layers of Ethical Issues: Individual, Organization,
Industry, and Society. Reading 4.9 The Effects of Compensation
Systems: Incentives, Bonuses, and Pay. Case 4.10 Rogues: Bad Apples
or Bad Barrel: Jett and Kidder, Leeson and Barings, Kerviel and
Soci�t� Generale, London Whales and Chase, Kweku Adoboli and UBS,
and LIBOR. Case 4.11 FINOVA and the Loan Write-Off. Case 4.12
Inflating SAT Scores for Rankings and Bonuses. Case 4.13 Hiding the
Slip-Up on Oil Lease Accounting: Interior Motives.
Section C: The structural factors: Governance, example, and
leadership.
Reading 4.14 A Primer on Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank. Reading
4.15 The Bathsheba Factor and Leaders Who Lose Their Way: Macbeth,
Martha Stewart, and David Petraeus. Case 4.16 WorldCom: The Little
Company That Couldn't After All. Case 4.17 Bank of America: Public
Disclosures and the Board. Reading 4.18 Getting Information from
Employees to Leaders Who Respond. Case 4.19 Westland/Hallmark Meat
Packing Company and Standing Cattle. Case 4.20 Paul Wolfowitz and
the World Bank HR Issues.
Section D: The industry practices and legal factors.
Reading 4.21 The Subprime Saga: Bear Stearns, Lehman, Merrill, and
CDOs. Case 4.22 Enron: The CFO, Conflicts, and Cooking the Books
with Natural Gas & Electricity. Case 4.23 The Ethics of Walking
Away and Bankruptcy.
Section E: The Fear-and-Silence factors.
Case 4.24 HealthSouth: The Scrushy Way. Case 4.25 Royal Dutch and
the Reserves. Case 4.26 Dennis Kozlowski: Tyco and the $6,000
Shower Curtain. Case 4.27 Bausch & Lomb and Krispy Kreme: Channel
Stuffing and Cannibalism. Reading 4.28 A Primer on Whistleblowing.
Case 4.29 Beech-Nut and the No-Apple-Juice Apple Juice. Case 4.30
NASA and the Space Shuttle Booster Rockets. Case 4.31 Diamond
Walnuts and Troubled Growers. Case 4.32 New Era: If It Sounds Too
Good To Be True.
Section F: The Culture of Goodness.
Case 4.33 Bernie Madoff: Just Stay Away From the 17th Floor. Case
4.34 Adelphia: Doing Good with Company Money. Case 4.35 The Atlanta
Public School System: Good Scores By Creative Teachers. Case 4.36
BP and the Deepwater Horizon Explosion: Safety First? Case 4.37 The
NBA Referee and Gambling for Tots. Case 4.38 Giving and Spending
the United Way. Case 4.39 The Baptist Foundation: Funds of the
Faithful.
UNIT 5: ETHICS AND CONTRACTS
Section A: Contract Negotiations: All Is Fair and Conflicting
Interests.
Case 5.3 The Governor and Negotiations for Filling a President's
Senate Seat. Case 5.4 Facebook and the Pre-IPO Information. Case
5.5 Finding a Way Around Government Regulations. Case 5.6 Subway:
Is 11 Inches the Same as 12 Inches? Case 5.7 Sears and High-Cost
Auto Repairs.
Section B: Promises, Performance, and Reality.
Case 5.8 Pay-Day Loans and Checking Account Deductions. Case 5.9
Pensions: Promises, Payments, and Bankruptcy. Case 5.10 Department
Store Returns or Rentals? Case 5.11 Government Contracts, Research,
and Double-Dipping. Case 5.12 When Corporations Pull Promises Made
to Government. Case 5.13 Intel and the Chips: When You Have Made a
Mistake. Case 5.14 Mortgage Foreclosure: Robo-Signatures and "Close
Enough". Case 5.15 Red Cross and the Use of Funds.
UNIT 6: ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS.
Section A: Conflicts between the corporation's ethics and business
practices in foreign countries.
Reading 6.1 Why An International Code of Ethics Would Be Good For
Business? Case 6.2 Chiquita Banana and Mercenary Protection. Case
6.3 Pirates! The Bane of Transnational Shippers. Case 6.4 The
Former Soviet Union: A Study of Three Companies and Values in
Conflict. Case 6.5 Product Dumping. Case 6.6 Sweatshops, Suicides,
Nike, Apple, and Campus Boycotts. Case 6.7 Bhopal: When Safety
Standards Differ. Case 6.8 Nestl�: Products That Don't Fit
Cultures. Case 6.9 The Internet, Censorship, and Human Rights.
Section B: Bribes, grease payments, and when in Rome� Reading 6.10
A Primer on the FCPA. Case 6.11 Siemens and Bribery, Everywhere.
Case 6.12 Walmart in Mexico. Case 6.13 Italy's Freeway
Corruption.
UNIT 7: ETHICS, OPERATIONS, AND RIGHTS.
Section A: Workplace Safety.
Reading 7.1 Two Sets of Books on Safety. Case 7.2 Sleeping on the
Job and All the Way Home. Case 7.3 CINTAS and OSHA. Case 7.4 Massey
Coal Mines, Fatalities, and Indictments. Case 7.5 Bhopal: When
Safety Standards Differ.
Section B: Workplace loyalty and conflicts.
Case 7.6 Aaron Feuerstein and Malden Mills. Case 7.7 JC Penney and
the Wealthy Buyer. Case 7.8 The Trading Desk at Fidelity and
"Dwarf" Tossing. Case 7.9 The Analyst Who Needed a Preschool. Case
7.10 Taser and Stunning Behavior. Case 7.11 Boeing and Recruiting
the Government Purchasing Agent. Case 7.12 Kodak, the Appraiser,
and the Assessor: Lots of Back Scratching. Case 7.13 Medtronics,
Journal Articles, Consulting, and Ethics. Case 7.14 Cornell
Researchers and Foundation Funding.
Section C: Workplace diversity and atmosphere.
Case 7.15 English-Only Employer Policies. Case 7.16 Employer Tattoo
and Piercing Policies. Case 7.17 On-the-Job Fetal Injuries. Case
7.18 Office Romances. Case 7.19 Employee Screening: Personality,
Intelligence, and Disparate Impact.
Section D: Workplace privacy and personal lives.
Case 7.20 Julie Roehm: The Walmart Ad Exec Who Didn't Fit in
Bentonville. Case 7. 21 Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, and
Employer Tracking. Case 7.22 Tweeting, Blogging, Chatting, and
E-mailing: Employer Control. Case 7.23 Jack Welch and the Harvard
Business Review Editor.
Section E: Workplace confrontation.
Reading 7.24 The Ethics of Confrontation. Reading 7.25 The Ethics
of Performance Evaluations. Case 7.26 Ann Hopkins and Price
Waterhouse. Reading 7.27 The Glowing Recommendation.
Section F: Workplace and the environment.
Case 7.28 Exxon and Alaska. Case 7. Johns-Manville and
Asbestos.
UNIT 8: ETHICS AND PRODUCTS.
Section A: Advertising content.
Case 8.1 Skechers and the Muscle-Building Shoes. Case 8.2 POM and
the Health Benefits Claims. Case 8.3 Joe Camel: The Cartoon
Character Who Knew How to Sell Cigarettes. Case 8.4 Cereal Claims
of Health, Better Grades, Immunity, and Sugar Content. Case 8.5
Eminem vs. Audi.
Section B: Product Safety.
Case 8.6 A Primer on Product Liability. Case 8.7 Peanut Corporation
of America: Salmonella and Indicted Leaders. Case 8.8 Tylenol: The
Swing in Product Safety. Case 8.9 Merck and Vioxx. Case 8.10 Ford's
Pinto, GM's Malibu, and Toyota's Acceleration: Repeating Issues.
Case 8.11 E-coli: Jack-in-the-Box and Cooking Temperatures. Case
8.12 Bucky Balls and Safety.
Case 8.13 Energy Drinks: Healthy or Risky? Case 8.14 Made in China:
Standards and Contracts and Safety.
Section C: Product Sales.
Case 8.15 Cardinal Health and Oxycodone Sales. Case 8.16 Pfizer,
Pharmas, Fines, and Sales Tactics. Case 8.17 The Mess at
MarshMcLennan. Case 8.18 Selling Your Own Products for Higher
Commissions. Case 8.19 Frozen Coke and Burger King and the Richmond
Rigging. Case 8.20 Slotting Fees: Facilitation or Fast Funds?
Section D: Products and Social Issues.
Case 8.21 The Mommy Doll. Case 8.22 Fast-Food Liability. Case 8.23
Barbie Doesn't Like Math.
UNIT 9: ETHICS AND COMPETITION.
Section A: Covenants not to compete.
Reading 9.1 A Primer on Covenants Not to Compete. Case 9.2 Boeing,
Lockheed, and the Documents. Case 9.3 Hilton and Starwood: The
Poaching of Employees and Documents.
Section B: All's fair, or is it?
Reading 9.4 Adam Smith, An Excerpt from The Theory of Moral
Sentiments. Case 9.5 Sabotaging Your Employer's Information Lists
Before You Leave to Work for a Competitor. Case 9.6 Bad-Mouthing
the Competition: Where's the Line? Case 9.7 Online Pricing
Differentials and Customer Questions. Case 9.8 Brighton
Collectibles: Terminating Distributors for Discounting Prices. Case
9.9 Electronic Books and the Amazon War. Case 9.10 Mattel and the
Bratz Doll.
Section C: Intellectual property and ethics.
Case 9.11 Tiffany vs. Costco and Landlords and Knock-Off Artists.
Case 9.12 The Little Intermittent Windshield Wiper and Its Little
Investor. Case 9.13 Copyrights and Charitable Use.
Cross-Referencing Tools/Indexes.
Ethical Common Denominators across Business Topics Index.
Alphabetical Index.
Business Discipline Index.
Product/Company/Individuals/Subject Index.
Topic Index."
Marianne M. Jennings is a professor of legal and ethical studies in business in the Department of Supply Chain Management, College of Business, at Arizona State University. She has been named professor of the year in the College of Business three times and received a Burlington Northern teaching excellence award. A consultant to many law firms, businesses, and professional groups, Professor Jennings has worked with the Federal Public Defender and U.S. Attorney in Nevada. She is the author of more than 200 articles in academic, professional, and trade journals as well as six textbooks and monographs in circulation. Her biweekly column for the Arizona Republicis nationally syndicated, and her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal. In addition, Professor Jennings is a legal commentator for National Public Radio. She has conducted more than 500 workshops and seminars in the areas of business, personal and professional ethics, legal ethics, real estate, credit management, legal issues for academic administrators, law for the CPA, and legal and political strategic planning. A member of the State Bar of Arizona, Professor Jennings earned her undergraduate degree in finance and her JD from Brigham Young University.
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