Business Ethics: Decision-Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility - Softcover

Hartman, Laura; Desjardins, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0078137136 ISBN 13: 9780078137136

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2010

Synopsis

Hartman/DesJardins is designed to prepare the student to apply an ethical decision-making model, not only in this ethics course but throughout her or his business discipline. This model teaches students ethical skills, vocabulary, and tools to apply in everyday business decisions and throughout their business courses. The authors speak in a sophisticated yet accessible manner while teaching the fundamentals of business ethics. Hartman’s professional background in law and her teaching experience in the business curriculum, combined with DesJardins’ background in philosophy, results in a broad language, ideal for this approach and market. The authors’ goal is to engage the student by focusing on cases and business scenarios that students already find interesting. Students are then asked to look at the issues from an ethical perspective. Additionally, its focus on AACSB requirements makes it a comprehensive business ethics text for business school courses. The goal for the second edition remains the same as for the first: to provide “a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the ethical issues arising in business.” Hartman and DesJardins have retained the focus on decision-making as well as the emphasis on both personal and policy-level perspectives on ethics. This edition continues to provide pedagogical support throughout the text. The most noticeable changes involve a thorough updating of distinct items such as Reality Checks, Decision Points, and readings to reflect new cases, examples and data.

About this title

About the Authors

Laura Hartman earned her B.S. in social psychology at Tufts University and her J.D. at the University of Chicago. She is the director of the Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy and clinical professor of business ethics in the Department of Organizational Behavior. She also serves as associate professor at the Kedge Business School in Marseille, France. She has been executive director and board chair of an elementary school in Haiti that provides leadership education to children living in poverty. A winner of the Microsoft CreateGOOD award at Cannes Lions, Professor Hartman also was named one of one of Ethispheres 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics and one of Fast Companys Most Creative People in Business. In addition, she continues to serve as an advisor to a number of startup companies.

Joe DesJardins is Professor in the philosophy department formed jointly by the College of St. Benedict and St. Johns University in Minnesota. He presently serves as the Executive Director of the Society for Business Ethics. Among his publications are: An Introduction to Business Ethics (McGraw-Hill), Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy (Wadsworth), Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics, co-editor, with John McCall, (Wadsworth) , and the forthcoming Business, Ethics, and Sustainability: Ethics for the Next Industrial Revolution (Prentice Hall). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and taught for many years at Villanova University before moving to Minnesota.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0078137136
• ISBN 13: 9780078137136
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 624