Business Ethics, Seventh Edition

A Stakeholder and Issues Management Approach

Joseph W. Weiss

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 7
• eBook ISBN:
  9781523091560
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Ethics
• Index: Business

The seventh edition of this pragmatic guide to determining right and wrong in the workplace is updated with new case studies, exercises, and ancillary materials. Joseph Weiss's Business Ethics is a pragmatic, hands-on guide for determining right and wrong in the business world. To be socially responsible and ethical, Weiss maintains, businesses must acknowledge the impact their decisions can have on the world beyond their walls. An advantage of the book is the integration of a stakeholder perspective with an issues and crisis management approach so students can look at how a business's actions affect not just share price and profit but the well-being of employees, customers, suppliers, the local community, the larger society, other nations, and the environment. Weiss includes twenty-three cases that immerse students directly in contemporary ethical dilemmas. Eight new cases in this edition include Facebook's (mis)use of customer data, the impact of COVID-19 on higher education, the opioid epidemic, the rise of Uber, the rapid growth of AI, safety concerns over the Boeing 737, the Wells Fargo false saving accounts scandal, and plastics being dumped into the ocean. Several chapters feature a unique point/counterpoint exercise that challenges students to argue both sides of a heated ethical issue. This edition has eleven new point/counterpoint exercises, addressing questions like, Should tech giants be broken apart? What is the line between free speech and dangerous disinformation? Has the Me Too movement gone too far? As with previous editions, the seventh edition features a complete set of ancillary materials for instructors: teaching guides, test banks, and PowerPoint presentations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Case Authorship
• Chapter 1. Business Ethics, the Changing Environment, and Stakeholder Management
• Chapter 2. Ethical Principles, Quick Tests, and Decision-Making Guidelines
• Chapter 3. Stakeholder and Issues Management Approaches
• Chapter 4. The Corporation and External Stakeholders: Corporate Governance: From the Boardroom to the Marketplace
• Chapter 5. Corporate Responsibilities, Consumer Stakeholders, and the Environment
• Chapter 6. The Corporation and Internal Stakeholders: Values-Based Moral Leadership, Culture, Strategy, and Self-Regulation
• Chapter 7. Employee Stakeholders and the Corporation
• Chapter 8. Business Ethics and Stakeholder Management in the Global Environment
• Index
• About the Author