Business Ethics
Best Practices for Designing and Managing Ethical Organizations

Third Edition

Denis Collins - Edgewood College
Patricia Kanashiro - University of Southern California, USA

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Business & Society | Business Ethics

November 2021 | 784 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Business Ethics teaches students how to create organizations of high integrity and superior performance. Author Denis Collins and new co-author Patricia Kanashiro walk readers through designing ethical organizations using an Ethical Systems Model that outlines best practices for hiring, training, making ethical decisions, and fostering trust. The substantially revised Third Edition integrates the most current research findings; includes three new chapters on corporate governance and stakeholder relationships, global sustainability, and global corporate citizenship; and explores timely topics through new case studies on the opioid crisis, the #MeToo movement, climate change, and business responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Digital Option / Courseware
Sage Vantage is an intuitive digital platform that delivers this text’s content and course materials in a learning experience that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class.
- Assignable Video with Assessment
  Assignable video (available with Sage Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. Watch a sample "What Would You Do?" video.
- Assignable Self-Assessments
  Assignable self-assessments (available with Sage Vantage) help students evaluate the ethics of an organization or group that they are a part of.

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ISBN: 9781544396828	Paperback	Suggested Retail Price: $235.00	Bookstore Price: $188.00
ISBN: 9781544396842	Electronic Version	Suggested Retail Price: $130.00	Bookstore Price: $130.00
ISBN: 9781071839973	Loose-leaf	Suggested Retail Price: $188.00	Bookstore Price: $150.40

Part I • An Introduction to Business Ethics

Chapter 1: Unethical Behaviors in Organizations and Human Nature

Chapter 2: The Evolution of Business Ethics

Chapter 3: Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Relationships

Part II • Onboarding and Training

Chapter 4: Hiring Ethical People

Chapter 5: Codes of Ethics and Codes of Conduct

Chapter 6: Ethical Decision-Making

Chapter 7: Ethics Training

Chapter 8: Respecting Employee Diversity

Part III • Managing Internal Operations

Chapter 9: Ethics Reporting Systems

Chapter 10: Managers as Ethical Leaders and Performance Assessments

Chapter 11: Ethically Engaging and Empowering Employees

Part IV • Being an Ethical Citizen in a Global Economy

Chapter 12: Global Sustainability

Chapter 13: Global Citizenship

Part V • Cases

Case Study 1: Opioid Responsibility: Big Pharma, Doctors, Consultants, and Patients

Case Study 2: Bayer and Monsanto: Acquiring a Global Giant With a Giant Image Problem

Case Study 3: Searching for the “New Normal”: The Business Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020

Case Study 4: The Happiness Minimum Wage: The Story of Dan Price and Gravity Payments

Case Study 5: Volkswagen’s Diesel Scandal: Failure of the Code of Conduct

Case Study 6: Troubles in Higher Education: The Growing Dilemma of Student Debt

Case Study 7: Deutsche Bank’s Path Back to Profitability: From Corruption to Compliance

Case Study 8: Starbucks: A Socially Responsible Firm and a Diversity Crisis

Case Study 9: Boeing 737 Max and the Challenger: The Tale of Flying Objects Falling From the Sky

Case Study 10: The Wells Fargo Scandal: A Tale of a Toxic Corporate Culture

Case Study 11: Uber’s #MeToo Reckoning: Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination

Case Study 12: The Paris Climate Change Agreement: Walmart and Amazon as Sustainability Leaders

Case Study 13: Corporate Citizen or Public Parasite? Amazon’s Complicated Relationship With the Tax Man

This publication offers content valuable in various other fields aside from the target subject. I feel that the structure is aligned in an order that allows or easy reference to previous materials as well at enough information to allow for durter research of related. Overall an exceptional work.

Marsha V. McCray

Business Administration, Perdoceo Education Corporation

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Key features

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

The Third Edition is available as a digital option through SAGE Vantage, an intuitive digital platform that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools—including video—all designed to enable students to better prepare for class.
Assignable self-assessments (available with SAGE Vantage) help students evaluate the ethics of an organization or group that they are a part of.
Three new chapters focus on corporate governance and stakeholder relationships, global sustainability, and global corporate citizenship.
New case studies explore timely topics and issues, including the opioid crisis, business responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, the minimum wage, student debt, the #MeToo movement, climate change, and corporate citizenship.
Updated “What Would You Do?” opening features give students more opportunities to consider dilemmas based on the real-life experiences of students.
Updated data and best practices incorporate the most current available research findings.

KEY FEATURES:

A practical and proactive approach to the material introduces students to concepts, cases, and applications that are relevant to their current and future professional lives.
An Ethical Systems Model (formerly called the Optimal Ethics System Model) provides students with a framework for creating and evaluating ethical organizations. Ethical Systems Model surveys summarize the best practices discussed in chapters and allow students to assess, benchmark, and continuously improve their own organization.
“Up for Debate” boxes offer current controversial business ethics topics that can be used for class discussion.
“Ethics in Action” boxes highlight a company implementing ethical practices discussed in the chapter.
“Ethical Applications” sections offer advice on how to implement a best practice discussed in the chapter.
In-depth case studies cover a wide range of topics and companies, including major public scandals at Boeing, Volkswagen, and Wells Fargo; the history of scandals and culture change efforts at Deutsche Bank; and Monsanto’s reputation related to genetically modified organisms.