With a Clear Conscience

Business Ethics, Decision-Making, and Strategic Thinking
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-903839-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 204 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

With a Clear Conscience: Business Ethics, Decision-Making, and Strategic Thinking argues that it is possible to be successful in business while still maintaining personal and corporate integrity. This innovative new text provides students with the theoretical background and practical tools they need to make ethically informed decisions in the workplace and in society. The first half of the book focuses on the conceptual framework and tools needed to function as ethical disruptors. The second half focuses on applying this knowledge and skill to business contexts where ethical issues often arise, including environmental concerns, advertising, corporate governance, negotiating, and whistleblowing.

In-text examples and case studies from Canada and other countries demonstrate ethical issues and solutions in action, and discussion questions help students to use critical thinking to grapple with the concepts they have learned. Students will also learn how to use game theory to understand social action problems and strategic negotiations. Throughout, the text promotes an approach to ethical decision-making that values collaboration, cooperation, and fairness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jordan, W. Jim

Stumpf, Andrew

Wass, Chris

Correia, Vanessa

McChesney, Dylon

Sewell, Jamie

Weaver, Sara

Andres, Gregory G.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wirtschaftsethik, Unternehmensethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Boxes and Case Studies

- Preface

- A Note to Instructors

- From the Publisher

- Introduction

- What This Text is About

- Features of This Book

- Being an Ethical Disruptor

- A Note on Game Theory and Philosophy

- Our Challenge to the Reader

- 1: Business Ethics and Ethical Business

- A Modest Approach to Ethics

- Ethics is More Than Opinion

- Ethical Relativism

- In Support of Ethical Relativism

- Problems with Ethical Relativism

- A Middle Way: Humble Objectivism

- Humble Objectivism and Ethical Pluralism

- The Place of Ethics in Business

- Why Should Businesspeople Want to Be Ethical?

- The Social Context of Business Activity

- The Social Responsibilities of Business

- The Market-Failures Approach to Ethics

- Everyday Norms and Business Norms

- The Ten Commandments of Business Ethics

- Summing Up

- For Discussion and Review

- Further Reading

- 2: Thinking in Ethical Terms

- Deontological Ethics: Duty, Principles, and Rights

- Kant's Categorical Imperative

- Ross's Prima Facie Duties

- Rights-Based Deontological Ethics

- Utilitarianism

- Virtue Ethics

- Ethics of Care

- The Capability Approach

- Capabilities

- Which Capabilities?

- Summary of Ethical Theory

- Living with Your Decisions: A Clear Conscience

- Private and Public Domains

- Accepting Moral Tragedy

- The Light of Day and How to Sleep at Night

- Summing Up

- For Discussion and Review

- Further Reading

- 3: Ethical DecisionMaking

- Private and Public Morality Revisited

- Ethical Pluralism Revisited

- Moral Disagreements

- Stakeholders: Whose Interests Matter?

- Value Conflicts

- Making Ethical Decisions

- Moral Intuition versus Moral Reasoning

- Bias and Decision Making

- An Ethical Decision-Making Model

- Step 1: Identify Relevant Facts

- Step 2: Identify Relevant Stakeholders and Ethical Issues

- Step 3: Identify Stakeholder Values and Conflicts

- Step 4: Create Resolution Strategies and Identify Consequences

- Step 5: Assess the Strategies

- Step 6: Recommend and Defend a Resolution Strategy

- The Payoff

- Dirty Hands

- Summing Up

- For Discussion and Review

- Further Reading

- 4: Corporate Social Responsibility

- Profitability and Legality

- Business as War

- Strong Fiduciary Responsibility

- Weak Fiduciary Responsibility

- The Invisible Hand

- Theories of Corporate Social Responsibility

- Applying Stakeholder Theory: Triple Bottom Line

- Pyramid of Corporate Responsibility

- Three-Domain Model

- An Argument for Corporate Social Responsibility

- Summing Up

- For Discussion and Review

- Further Reading

- 5: Fairness and Non-Discrimination

- Equal Opportunity as Fairness

- Rawls on Justice as Fairness

- The Harms of Injustice

- Workplace Inequalities

- Wage Gap

- Implicit Bias and the Workplace

- Tips to Control for Bias

- Accommodation

- Barriers to Access

- Religious Accommodation

- Sexual Harassment

- Ethnocentric Harassment

- Why Should I Care?

- Personal Affect

- Corporate Profit

- Moral Obligation

- Personal Protection

- Resources

- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

- Canadian Human Rights Act

- Canadian Human Rights Commission

- Employment Equity Act (2010)

- Federal and Provincial Accessibility Legislation

- Occupational Health and Safety

- International Labour Organization

- Summing Up

- For Discussion and Review

- Further Reading

- 6: Social Action Problems

- The Social Contract and Enlightened Self-Interest

- Social Action Problems

- The Prisoner's Dilemma

- The Free-Rider Problem

- Moral Hazard

- The Game of Chicken

- Social Action Problems in the Wild

- Unhealthy Competition

- The Principal-Agent Problem

- Dirty Dishes

- Pre-Emptive Strikes

- "But They're Doing It!"

- Trust, Coordination, and the Benefits of Co-Operation

- Summing Up

- For Discussion and Review

- Further Reading

- 7: Environment, Ethics, and Business

- The Value of Nature

- Two Types of Value

- Instrumental Value

- Intrinsic Value

- Whence Catastrophe?

- Shared Study Space

- Agriculture in Kansas

- Reframing the Environmental Conversation

- Light Green Approach

- Market Green Approach

- Stakeholder Green Approach

- Dark Green Approach

- Hybrid Strategies

- Bargaining and the Coase Theorem

- The Features of the Coase Theorem

- Internalizing Externalities: An Application of the Coase Theorem

- The Limits of the Coase Theorem

- Climate Justice: Environmental Harm and Marginalized Peoples

- Summing Up

- For Discussion and Review

- Further Reading

- 8: The Power of Advertising

- Ethical Issues in Advertising

- Canadian Advertising Regulations

- Bypassing Rationality

- Framing Information

- Appealing to Emotion

- Priming and Deception

- How Advertising Harms

- Gender Roles

- Abuse

- Racism

- Body Image and Sexuality

- Summing Up

- For Discussion and Review

- Further Reading

- 9: Corporate Governance and Perverse Incentives

- Corporate Structure

- Shareholders

- Directors or Trustees

- Officers and Executives

- Managers and Working Staff

- Principals and Agents

- The Principal-Agent Relationship

- Principal-Agent Problems

- Perverse Incentives

- Setting Up for a Fall

- Dodging the Consequences

- When All Else Fails

- Summing Up

- For Discussion and Review

- Further Reading

- 10: Strategic Negotiations

- Strategic Moves

- Credibility

- Making Strategic Moves

- Resisting Strategic Moves

- Strategic Sanctions

- Strategic Moves and Social Action Problems

- Acing the Exam Strategically

- Inflationary Incentives

- Heavy Lifting and Heavy Metal

- Ethical Disputes

- Positions and Interests

- Types of Bargaining

- Skills and Attitudes

- Applying the Concepts

- Social Media and Privacy

- Summing Up

- For Discussion and Review

- Further Reading

- 11: Whistle-Blowing and Codes of Ethics

- Professional Expectations and Codes of Ethics

- Internal Reporting Mechanisms

- Overcoming Internal Obstacles

- How to Think about Whistle-Blowing

- A Public Act

- A Conflict between Public and Private Morality

- A Matter of Public Duty

- To Blow the Whistle or Not to Blow the Whistle?

- What Are My Options?

- Summing Up

- For Discussion and Review

- Further Reading

- 12: Concluding Thoughts

- Pre-Market Ethics

- Pro-Social Business

- Strategic Co-Operation

- From the Gallery into the World

- For Discussion and Review

- Appendix A: Ethical Decision-Making Model Worksheets

- Appendix B: A Primer on Game Theory

- Appendix C: Concept Check Answers

- Notes

- Glossary

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Editor:

Gregory G. Andres is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo. He is the course coordinator for business ethics and mentors first-time instructors who teach the course. Gregory also teaches critical thinking, logic, and game theory. He was recognized for his teaching at the University of Waterloo with the 2013 Arts Teaching Award.

Authors:

W. Jim Jordan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo. His current research interests include cyberwarfare, international humanitarian law, formal philosophy in applied ethics, and philosophical pedagogy. Jim has worked for 15 years as a software designer and inventor at Nortel Networks and its predecessor companies.

Andrew Stumpf is an assistant professor in Philosophy at St. Jerome's University in Waterloo. His research interests are wide-ranging but centred on ethics, with a particular focus on end-of-life issues. Andrew published a book on ancient philosophy (Ancient Philosophy: A Companion to the Core Readings, Broadview Press, 2018) and is currently working on an interdisciplinary project on the end-of-life-care that is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Chris Wass is a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo. His interests are in ethics, Marxism, and the philosophy of economics.

Vanessa Correia is a faculty member at Conestoga College and a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo. Her work focuses on business ethics, specifically how corporations can balance making profits with being socially responsible. Vanessa's research is funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship.

Dylon McChesney is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo, where he has been teaching business ethics since 2015. His research interests include applied ethics in mental health issues and social cognition. Dylan's work in pedagogy involves designing and implementing games as teaching methods.

Jamie Sewell is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo. Her current research takes an intersectional feminist and social epistemological approach to the legal standard of reasonableness. Jamie's philosophical approach is interdisciplinary, and she enjoys bringing philosophical tools and insights to students across all disciplines. Her research in critical pedagogy was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Jamie has won several teaching awards.

Sara Weaver is a graduate from the PhD program in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo. She is currently a senior research analyst for the Government of the Northwest Territories Department of Education, Culture and Employment. Sara was a recipient of the SSHRC Joseph Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship during her doctoral studies. Her research focused on ethical scientific practices and the use of experimental methods in philosophy. Sara has taught various courses in philosophy, including business ethics. She has numerous academic publications in the areas of psychology, experimental philosophy, and the philosophy of science.