Description
Book SynopsisThis collected volume of essays represents the work of scholars from DePaul University who have served a term as the Wicklander Chair in Business Ethics. These essays, which represent written versions of public lectures, focus on a wide range of issues that have bothered and continue to plague ethicists, legal scholars, and practicing managers in business. These issues include the role of self-interest in commerce, moral character, evil and complacency, privacy, spirituality in the workplace, truth-telling, globalization challenges, and the function of narrative.
Trade Reviewthe individual essays are fascinating and finely argued contributions to contemporary debates in bioethics. * The Journal Of Religion, July 2007 *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword and Dedication Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introductory Essay: Promoting Business and Professional Ethics to New Generations of Civic and Business Leaders Chapter 4 1. Teaching Professional Ethics: Where, Why, and How? Chapter 5 2. Can Business Ethics Be Taught? Chapter 6 3. Corporate Social Responsibility in a Global Economy Chapter 7 4. The Impartial Judge: Detachment or Passion? Chapter 8 5. How to Read a Contract: From Self-Interest to Fairness and Decency Chapter 9 6. What is Evil? Chapter 10 7. Technology and Ethics: Privacy in the Workplace Chapter 11 8. The Ethics of Everyday Life: Social Class and Moral Character in Women's Narratives Chapter 12 9. Lying and Lawyering: An Honest Perspective Chapter 13 10. Spirituality in the Workplace: Individual and Organizational Transformation Chapter 14 11. Why Do Good People Do Bad Things? The Challenge of Business Ethics and Corporate Leadership Chapter 15 12. "It's Business; We're Soldiers" The Sopranos, Liberal Business Ethics, and this American Thing of Ours Chapter 16 13. Tissue Banking: Disclosure, Informed Consent, and the Rule of Law Chapter 17 About the Contributors
