Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases 7th Edition, Velasquez

Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases 7th Edition by Manuel G. Velasquez has been revised to keep tempo with these modifications most effecting business: accelerating globalization, fixed technological updates, proliferating of business scandals.

This book introduces the reader to the ethical ideas that are relevant to resolving moral issues in business; imparts the reasoning and analytical abilities needed to use ethical concepts to business decisions; identifies ethical points particular to a business; offers an understanding of the social, technological, and natural environments within which moral issues in business come up; and provides case research of actual ethical conflicts confronted by businesses.

This book provides a essential discussion of four kinds of ethical principles: utilitarian rules, principles based mostly on ethical rights, ideas of justice, and rules of an ethic or care. It has a sensible orientation that applies moral theory to particular moral issues reminiscent of: the ethics of markets and costs, environmental and consumer issues, and worker issues.

Writer emphasizes the strategic importance of ethics to securing a aggressive benefit in business - arguing that moral behavior can give a company important aggressive advantages over another company that's unethical. It provides summaries of the basic ideas discussed within the text in its margins; helping students study to evaluate what the core points are. Standardized chapters present conceptual materials first, and then provide dialogue instances second - getting students to critically take into consideration the material they are learning.

Study questions at the start of every chapter, definitions of key terms in the margins, a glossary, and Chapter-finish research and dialogue questions ensure students’ complete understanding of the material. Chapter-opening concrete examples or cases highlight the concepts to be discussed. End-of-chapter net assets direct college students to where they will discover extra info, enhancing their skill to cause about ethical matters.

Book Details

Paperback: 504 pages
Publisher: Pearson; 7 edition (July 4, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0205017665
ISBN-13: 978-0205017669

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