Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making & Cases 9th Edition

Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making & Cases 9th Edition by O. C. Ferrell, John Fraedrich and Ferrell offers vibrant four-color design to cover the complex environment in which managers confront ethical decision making. Using a proven managerial framework, this accessible, applied text addresses the overall concepts, processes, and best practices associated with successful business ethics programs--helping readers see how ethics can be integrated into key strategic business decisions.

Thoroughly revised, the new ninth edition incorporates coverage of new legislation affecting business ethics, the most up-to-date examples, and the best practices of high-profile organizations. It also includes 20 all-new or updated original case studies. It is renowned for its signature approach--teaching business ethics from a managerial/organizational perspective. More important in today's economy than ever, this proven text emphasizes decision making, leadership, and strategy as it illustrates how to develop, implement, and audit an effective ethics program in a global environment.

Extremely timely, the text is completely revised and updated to reflect the latest in the global economic crisis. The issues associated with the recent economic meltdown compelled the authors to provide an updated discussion of ethics from a systemic perspective. The authors' insightful discussions equip students with an ethical understanding of what happened--how greed, excessive risk-taking, and the culture of focusing on rewards and the bottom line helped create the problem.

Ensuring students get the most from the course, the text's rich pedagogical program includes Chapter Objectives, a Chapter Outline, a detailed Chapter Summary, and Check Your E.Q. (Ethics Quotient) exercises that help students identify key concepts, initiate discussion, enhance problem-solving skills, and provide an opportunity for self-assessment.

The text is packed with real-world, hands-on applications--placing students in the role of decision maker. An "Ethical Dilemma" at the opening of each chapter highlights a realistic situation and provides guided discussion questions on how the dilemma could be resolved. Chapter-ending "Resolving Ethical Business Challenges" are minicases that give students an opportunity to put what they have learned into action as they use their critical-thinking skills to address realistic ethical issues.

Role play cases in the Instructor's Resource Manual provide excellent culminating experiences to help students integrate concepts covered in the text. Cases are also effective as ongoing exercises to provide students with extensive opportunities for interacting and making ethical decisions.

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