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xii, 510 pages : 23 cm Manuel Velasquez discusses the nature and significance of ethical standards and identifies four kinds of moral principles for resolving ethical dilemmas in business. He then applies the resulting theory to specific issues such as the ethics of markets and prices (free markets, Marxist criticisms, the mixed economy, various forms of competition); environmental and consumer issues (pollution, depletable resources, conservation, consumer protection, advertising ethics); and employee issues (job discrimination, employee rights and obligations, affirmative action, a firm's duties to its employees). This new edition retains the basic organization and conceptual framework of its predecessor. However, new materials related to significant changes in the business world and in moral philosophy have been added to every chapter. Statistical and factual information has been updated, and the book now includes a discussion of "care ethics," a new approach pioneered by feminist moral thinkers Each chapter concludes with thought-provoking case studies, most of them new. These cases illustrate the chapter's conceptual material by presenting moral dilemmas faced by contemporary

Author

Velasquez, Manuel G.

Publisher

Upper Saddle River, N.j. : Prentice Hall, C1998.

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780133508512

Subjects

Philosophy, Business

Rating

5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24