Eric Teoro

Annual Editions: Business Ethics

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The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. Each Annual Editions volume has a number of features designed to make them especially valuable for classroom use; including a brief overview for each unit, as well as Learning Outcomes, Critical Thinking questions, and Internet References to accompany each article. Go to the McGraw-Hill Create® Annual Editions Article Collection at http://www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/annualeditions to browse the entire collection. Select individual Annual Editions articles to enhance your course, or access and select the entire Teoro: Annual Editions: Business Ethics, 28/e book here at http://create.mheducation.com/createonline/index.html#qlink=search%2Ftext%3Disbn:1259883256 for an easy, pre-built teaching resource. Visit http://create.mheducation.com for more information on other McGraw-Hill titles and special collections.

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• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781259883255
• ISBN-10: 1259883256
• Artikelnr.: 54801544

Autorenporträt

Eric Teoro is Director of the Business Administration Program at Lincoln Christian University. He teaches several ethics courses including business ethics and leadership ethics. Eric's research interests are the cultivation of an ethical personal character and corporate culture, business ethics, philosophy of business, and organizational trust. He has conducted business training in Ghana and China and serves as a board member for the Greater Ashburn Community Development Corporation and as the Education Officer for Aim to Work, not-for-profits serving one of Chicago's Southside neighborhoods. Prior to teaching, Eric worked in manufacturing and served in the United States Air Force.

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Unit 1: Ethical Behavior in the Workplace
Did You Bring Your Ethics to Work Today? Susan M. Heathfield, The Balance
Careers, 2018
Lapses in workplace ethics vary in size and impact, often resulting in
policy development. Included are 16 examples of employees failing to
practice fundamental workplace ethics.
Everyday Ethics: Tougher Than You Think, Steve Goldberg and Bruce
Bettinghaus, Strategic Finance, 2015
Judgment traps and biases can hamper ethical decision-making. Such traps
and biases are identified along with interventions.
The PLUS Ethical Decision-making Model, Ethics Research Center, Ethics &
Compliance Initiative, ethics.org, 2018
The PLUS Ethical Decision-making Model combines a seven-step ethical
decision-making process that incorporates organizational policies, legal
and regulatory concerns, and universal and personal values.
Three Simple Rules to Stop Yourself from Lying, Natalie Kitroeff, Bloomberg
Businessweek, 2015
Low-key, apparently innocent lying can lead to significant patterns of
lying in time. Three simple strategies are offered that can help
individuals prevent that from occurring.
Be Clear on Employee Technology and Social Media Use Policies, Leslie
Ruhland, Accuchex Corporation Website Postings, 2018
Social media use by employees not only jeopardizes productivity, but
organizational security as well. Associated policies need to protect
privacy and security concerns.
Unit 2: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Nature of Business
Ethics Training Is Missing the Mark: Here's Why, S. L. Young,
HuffingtonPost, 2015
Ethics training needs to address the emotional, psychological, and moral
challenges that individuals face when confronted with ethical decisions.
A Time for Ethical Self-Assessment, Rick Wartzman, Bloomberg Businessweek,
2008
What kind of person do you see when you look in the mirror? That is, when
you do an ethical self-assessment what kind of person do you see? Peter
Drucker called that question "the mirror test" or the "ethics of prudence."
The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, Milton
Friedman, The New York Times, 1970
"There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its
resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long
as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open
and free competition without deception or fraud."
Corporate America Needs to Get Back to Thinking about More than Just
Profits, Marina v. N. Whitman, The Conversation, 2018
The 20th century witnessed changes in corporate America with respect to the
relationship between business and the general public. Today, businesses are
challenged to increase their social responsibility.
Fiduciary Principles: Corporate Responsibilities to Stakeholders, Susan C.
Atherton, Mark S. Blodgett, and Charles A. Atherton, Journal of Religion
and Business Ethics, 2011
The article examines the origins of the fiduciary concept in shaping the
ethical and moral duties of managers. Several studies are cited including
the responsibility of corporate boards having "a fiduciary duty to make
ethics-based decisions."
The Four Principles of 'Conscious Capitalism,' R. Michael Anderson,
Entrepreneur, 2015
The right thing to do is also the profitable thing to do. Companies should
practice the four pillars of conscious capitalism: ensuring conscious
leadership, maintaining a stakeholder orientation, inculcating a conscious
culture, and embracing a higher purpose.
Doing More Good, Jodi Chavez, Strategic Finance, 2011
Several ways for a company to be a better corporate citizen are identified
and discussed. The so-called business case for being charitable is
examined. Seven ways for achieving competitive advantage through good
corporate citizenship are posited. Six ways to put corporate responsibility
into action are identified and discussed.
Exploring a New Agenda for Corporate Sustainability, Gael O'Brien, Business
Ethics: The Magazine of Corporate Responsibility, 2017
Sustainability needs to move from being integrated into business strategy
to being a foundational element from the beginning as companies adopt
futures thinking utilizing sustainability and ethics officers, and as CEOs
champion principles throughout their organizations.
Are Business Ethics Missing from Corporate Social Responsibility? Shahar
Silbershatz, ManageMagazine, 2018
Corporate Social Responsibility traditionally focused on environmental,
social, and governance issues as responsibilities companies faced, but a
shift is needed toward viewing these issues in terms of integrity, for
example, shifting from a duty and expectation perspective to an internally
held moral code.
Unit 3: Building an Ethical Organization
Creating an Ethical Culture, David Gebler, JD, Strategic Finance, 2006
David Gebler examines how values-based ethics programs can help employees'
judge right from wrong. Seven levels of an ethical organization are
presented and analyzed.
Designing Honesty into Your Organization, Christian Mastilak et al.,
Strategic Finance, 2011
How does a manager design honesty into her/his organization? Is it possible
to design in honesty and make the concept of honesty part of an
organization's culture? This article argues in the affirmative and offers
six key steps toward designing honesty into an organization.
Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Ethics Function, Business Ethics
Briefing, 2016
For ethics to play an impactful role in an organization, ethics managers
need: direct access to the board, to collaborate with other functions, to
adopt an oversight role, to expand ethics communications throughout the
organization, and to monitor and measure performance.
Using Behavioural Ethics to Improve Your Ethics Programme, Judith Houston,
Business Ethics Briefing, 2018
Behavioral ethics can help identify ethical risks such as ethical blindness
and moral disengagement, and can provide guidance for training and
reinforcement, communication and awareness, and monitoring and
accountability.
Hiring Character, Dana Telford and Adrian Gostick, Integrity Works, 2005
In an excerpt from Dana Telford and Adrian Gostick's book, Integrity Works,
they present a look at business leader Warren Buffett's practice of hiring
people based on their integrity. A list of twenty questions is presented
that might be asked of job candidates to learn more about their character.
Diversity and Inclusion, Past, Present, and Future, Laura Wise, CR
Magazine, 2018
Diversity and inclusion need to ensure equity for all who are a part of an
organization. To achieve such equity, three trends have come to the fore:
CEOs speaking about equity, expanding representation to include retention
initiatives, and fostering inclusive cultures.
The Pernicious Problems of Diversity Training, Jayinee Basu, LawRoom, 2016
Organizations need to safeguard against sending the wrong signals regarding
diversity training, i.e. that managers inherently have a problem that needs
correcting. When conducting diversity training, it is imperative to do so
with quality, and to operationalize the components of the training.
Intel Wants a Less White, Less Male Staff. Good Luck, Akane Otani,
Bloomberg Business, 2015
Building diversity takes time and requires effort to make it stick. It is
not simply a matter of issuing a new policy but creating a culture shift.
Sexual Harassment Training Doesn't Work. But Some Things Do, Claire Cain
Miller, The New York Times, 2017
Language and concepts that, traditionally, have been used in sexual
harassment training could cause adverse effects. A more comprehensive and
effective approach includes empowering bystanders to act, encouraging
civility throughout the workplace, training seriously and often, promoting
more women, and encouraging reporting.
Unit 4: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas in the Workplace
Overcoming the Fraud Triangle, Curtis C. Verschoor, Strategic Finance, 2015
To overcome fraud, managers need to pay attention to opportunity, financial
pressure, and rationalization, and to encourage whistleblowing.
Conceptualizing a Framework for Global Business Ethics, William J. Kehoe,
2003
What are important considerations in developing a global code of ethics? An
eight-stage framework for global business ethics is developed. The
framework begins with the stage of understanding the orientation of a firm
and concludes with recommendations for promulgating and using a framework
of global business ethics.
Opting to Blow the Whistle or Choosing to Walk Away, Alina Tugend, The New
York Times, 2013
Ethical violations do not have to violate th e law but reporting them could
result in adverse consequences for the informant. Tugend offers some advice
to those contemplating whistleblowing.
The Unexpected Cost of Staying Silent, Amy Fredin, Strategic Finance, 2012
In an empirically based article, the author explores the regret felt by
individuals in situations of not blowing a whistle when a whistle should
have been blown. The reasons for not blowing the whistle are documented by
empirical research. Fear of retaliation is the most common reason reported
for not blowing the whistle. The level of regret experienced is related to
the type of reported wrongdoing that was not reported.
Unethical Behaviors in the Workplace: Abuse of Social Media in the
Workplace on the Rise, Steven Mintz, Workplace Ethics Advice, 2015
Companies face increasing challenges with respect to social media abuse by
employees. Management needs to create social media policies and train
employees on them.
Too Much Information? Kate Russell, Business Merchants Journal, 2014
It is important for employers to focus information gathering on what is
relevant for the job, ensuring that the information directly pertains to
job description qualifications.
Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers from Job
Ads, Julia Angwin, Noam Scheiber, and Ariana Tobin, ProPublica, 2017
Targeted recruitment ads often intentionally exclude older workers. Some
companies defend such actions as a way to cost-effectively attract
entry-level recruits.
The Murky Ethics of Data Gathering in a Post-Cambridge Analytica World,
Sarah Steimer, AMA Marketing News, 2018
The codependence between advertisers and services like Facebook complicates
the ethics of data collection, especially when personalized marketing is at
the fore. Government regulators and industry insiders respond with
initiatives to enhance individual privacy.
As Data Gets Bigger, So Do the Risks, Hal Conick, AMA Marketing Insights,
2016
Three industry experts engage in Q&A regarding the ethics of big data
collection.
The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Scandal Was a Half-century in the Making,
Dan Guadagnolo, Washington Post, 2018
Marketers have used psychographic research for decades. Social media
platforms have increased the ability of marketers to obtain personal
information, analyze it, and then utilize it, that is, the current ethical
challenges of data usage have been in the making for years.
Advertisers Sip Rosé and Ponder Ethics in South of France, Sapna
Maheshwari, The New York Times, 2018
Advertisers explore their usage of technological, data-driven marketing.
Untrustworthy Memories Make It Hard to Shop Ethically, Rebecca Walker
Reczek, Daniel Zane, and Julie Irwin, The Conversation, 2017
Studies have shown that consumers' selective memories and unethical amnesia
make it difficult to shop ethically. Companies can help consumers by
reminding them at multiple points regarding their products' ethical
attributes.
Marketing to Children: Accepting Responsibility, Gael O'Brien, Business
Ethics, 2011
Using McDonald's as an example, the author discusses contrary opinions
regarding marketing to children. Critics claim that businesses exert undue
influence on children, often with seriously negative consequences.
Supporters state that parents have the right and responsibility to
determine the lifestyles of their children.
Marketing's Ethical Line between Social Media Habit and Addiction, Hal
Conick, AMA Marketing News, 2017
There is a fine line between hooking a consumer via quality products and
advertising, and consumers becoming hooked in an unhealthy addictive way.
Individuals benefit from recognizing six signs of behavioral addiction.
What Designers Could Learn from Lawyers, Doctors, and Priests, Mark
Rolston, Fast Company, 2018
Designers need to develop and utilize an effective code of ethics given the
growing ability of AI, surveillance, and associated product capabilities.
They can learn lessons from established professions such as priests,
doctors and lawyers.
Rethinking the Ethics of Photoshop, Katharine Schwab, Fast Company, 2017
Retouching has led to several ethical problems including unhealthy
self-image issues. The problems are not confined to human images, though;
product images often are manipulated to create meanings that are false.
How VW Paid $25 Billion for Dieselgate-And Got Off Easy, Roger Parloff,
ProPublica, 2018
Volkswagen violated ethics in what has become known as Dieselgate. This
article explains what happened and the different national outcomes.
Case Study: Deutsche Bank Money-laundering Scheme, Michelle Chan, Seven
Pillars Institute: Case Studies, 2017
This case study on Deutsche Bank's money-laundering schemes explains that
the bank failed in its fiduciary responsibilities, and that it suffered
from institutional corruption and conflict of interest issues.