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• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• 1 Thinking About Business Ethics and Corporate Citizenship
• Business Ethics Teaching and Learning
• Business Ethics can be Learned in a Classroom
• Cheating on the Rise in College Students’ Work
• Scandal Shows Lack of Ethics
• Business Schools Need Stronger Emphasis on Ethics
• Business Purpose
• Profits are a Definite Business Need, but not Purpose
• More to it than Simply Making Money
• Corporate Ethics Help Reap Dividends
• Responsibility, Profitability go Hand in Hand
• Company Reputation is a Key Factor in Reaching Objectives
• Greed and Cheating
• Greed Plays its Hand in Real Life
• Greed is the Top Suspect for Recent Slide in Ethics
• Greed Drives the Subprime Loan Market
• Wall Street Shows Greed isn’t Good
• Do we Live in a Cheating Culture?
• Questionable Ethics Abound in Wall Street Crisis
• Trends in Business Ethics in Recent Years
• Survey Shows Hope for Ethics in Business
• Repentance, Reform—Next Steps in 2003
• Executives Should Consider these New Year’s Resolutions
• Survey Says Not Many Think Highly of Executives’ Ethics
• Ethics Trends in 2007 May Get Worse in 2008
• Troubling Currents Lead to the Perfect Financial Storm
• Two Scandals and the Decade isn’t Over Yet
• 2 Compliance, Companies, and Corporate Governance
• Compliance Issues
• Lawyers, Not Law Rules This Nation
• Are America’s Lawyers on a Feeding Frenzy?
• Is Compliance with Federal Laws Killing Ethics in Business?
• Companies
• Who’s to Blame for Enron’s Fall from Grace?
• Trial of Ex-Enron Execs Reveals an Ethical Tsunami
• Prosecutions of Top Execs has an Upside
• Merck’s Record Reflects Two Different Faces
• HealthSouth Gives the South an Ethics Scandal of its Own
• Is Wal-Mart a Microcosm of America’s Future?
• Pepsi Takes Moral High Road in Trade Secret Case
• Accounting Firms Are Expected to be Ethical
• Constant News has a Downside
• Corporate Governance
• Slack Corporate Governance Costs us All
• Compensation for Execs Often Seen as a Scam
• Shareholder Activism Blossoms in the Spring
• 3 Ethical Leadership—the Heart of Moral Direction
• Ethics in Leadership
• Ethical Leaders Vital in New Millennium
• From Moral Management to Moral Leadership
• True Leadership Bears Four Main Responsibilities
• Integrity is Foundation of Leadership
• Ethical Leadership has Four Realms
• Character Counts when it Comes to Business Success
• Spitzer’s Character Undermines Ethics
• Finding ‘Sweet Spot’ of Leadership in Working World
• Servant Leadership
• Greenleaf Brought Origins of Servant Leadership
• What Are the Core Characteristics of Servant Leadership?
• 4 Ethics Issues and Guidelines for Decision Making
• Ethics Issues in Decision Making
• Questioning if it Pays to Be Ethical
• Have You Yet to Discover your Moral Compass Spinning?
• Challenge Isn’t Knowing, But Doing Right Thing
• Knowing and Motivating Ethics in Business
• Do Executives Display Same Ethics on Golf Course as they Do at Work?
• Speeding Metaphor a Tool for Teaching Good Business Ethics
• Ethics Guidelines and Policies
• Iron Law May Guide Practices
• The ‘Big Three’ Moral Guides for Businesses
• Concepts of Fairness Often Influence Business Ethics
• In Business, Golden Rule the Bestseller
• Business Must Polish Golden Rule
• No Doubt Honesty Remains Best Policy in Business
• Bill George Offers Guide for Ethics
• The Truth Always Comes Out
• Drucker’s Management Principles Still Crucial
• Ten Social Sins that can Affect Business Contacts
• 5 Spirituality and Business Ethics
• Spirituality in the Workplace
• Making Connection Between God and the Workplace
• Secular Side of Spirituality and the Bottom Line
• The Forgiveness Factor’s Role in Workplace
• Forgiveness is a Process that can Enhance Operations
• Commandments Form Root of Business Ethics
• One Rule Can Best Guide Practices
• 6 Ethics, Organizations, and Management
• Field of Management Ethics Opened by Watergate Scandal
• Pressure May Force Ethical Hand
• The Signs of Ethical Breakdown in Organizations
• The Four Vital E-Words of Organizations Today
• Trust is the Key when Rating Great Workplaces
• Ethics Programs go Beyond Compliance Strategy
• Crisis Management is an Urgent Topic Again
• Honesty’s Star is Rising in Job Recruiting
• Secretaries Face Ethical Issues at Work as Well
• How May Secretaries Respond to Ethical Pressures they Face?
• 7 Stakeholders, Environment, and Sustainability
• Stakeholder Approach
• The Stakeholder Approach to Business Ethics
• Environment and Sustainability
• Green Business can Enhance Profits, Ethics
• Environmental Initiatives Becoming Mainstream
• Sustainability is more than a Buzzword
• 8 Employee Stakeholders
• Workplace Fraud is a Huge Daily Problem
• Workplace Violence Number Two Cause of Death at Work
• Pay Attention to Warning Signs of Workplace Violence
• Balance Needed in Weighing Surveillance, Privacy
• Day Laborers Have Worked their Way into National Issue
• Considering the Ethics of Illegal Immigration
• Holidays a Prime Time for Stealing
• Ethics Seen Differently by Women
• Whistleblower Details Exposure of Fraud
• Cell Phones Becoming an Ethics Issue
• 9 Consumer Stakeholders
• Customers Should Expect Reasonable Business Ethics
• Satisfied Customers Should Top Company Priorities
• Attention to Service may Help Avoid ‘Waiting-in-Line’ Rage
• Drug Ads Should be Restricted
• Lessons from ChoicePoint’s Breach in Security
• Credit Card Companies Thrive on Consumers’ Carelessness
• Consumers Own Worst Enemy with Credit Cards
• Credit Card Companies Using Questionable Marketing
• Rebates have Crossed the Line into Scam Territory
• 10 Global Topics in Business Ethics
• Answering Question of What’s Behind Anxiety Over Globalization
• Global Capitalism’s Impact Inspires Opposing Views
• Sweatshop Issue Won’t Fade Away
• Self-regulation Best Way for Companies to Better Sweatshops
• Business Ethics take Italian Turn
• Studying in Italy Provides Lessons in Ethics
• Classic Case of Corporate Responsibility Still Unresolved at Bhopal
• American Business Must Consider the ‘China Factor’
• Globalization has Changed Social Contracts
• Acknowledgments to the Athens Banner Herald
• Index