Business Ethics and Common Sense or Managing Elites

Business Ethics and Common Sense

Author: Robert W W McGe

Many business ethics books take a basically collectivist approach to the subject. They speak in terms of collective rights and interests, the public interest, social justice, the greatest good for the greatest number, and so forth. If individualism is mentioned at all, it is mentioned disparagingly. This book takes a different approach. While some of the contributors to this volume take the more popular collectivist approach, many of them do not. Thus, this book offers a more balanced presentation of business ethics than that found in most books on the subject.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
I	Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics
1	Teaching Business Ethics in an Academic Environment of Mistrust	3
2	Selfishness, Exploitation, and the Profit Motive	19
3	Capitalism and Morality: The Role of Practical Reason	31
4	Business: Myth and Morality	45
5	Ayn Rand's Objectivist Ethics as the Foundation of Business Ethics	67
6	What Is the Public Interest?	89
II	Relationships between the Corporation and Outsiders
7	Are Anticompetitive Practices Unethical?	101
8	To Whom Does the Corporation Owe a Duty?	115
9	Corporate Social Responsibility	137
10	Business Environmental Ethics	153
III	Responsibilities of the Corporation to Insiders
11	Ethical Issues in Acquisitions and Mergers	167
12	Ethics and Affirmative Action - A Managerial Approach	187
13	Ethical Behavior in Labor Relations	197
14	Insider Trading	219
IV	Responsibilities of Employees and the Corporation
15	Conflicts of Interest	233
16	Ethical Dilemmas of Management Accountants	251
17	The Ethics of Computer Activities	271
18	Codes of Ethics	283
	Index	295
	About the Editor and Contributors	301

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Managing Elites: Socialization in Law and Business Schools

Author: Debra J Schleef

How does one become a member of an elite profession? Managing Elites examines how elites-in-training contest, rationalize, and ultimately embrace their dominant positions in society. Using interviews with law and MBA students, the author shows that becoming elite is not a straightforward process without tensions. Successful socialization outcomes--employment in large corporate law firms or prominent investment banks and consulting firms--require both accomodation iandi resistance to ideologies about achievement and meritocracy.

Handbook of Work and Health Psychology or Technical Managers Handbook

Handbook of Work and Health Psychology

Author: Marc J Schabracq

Workplace health is now recognised as having major legal, financial and efficiency implications for organizations. Psychologists are increasingly called on as consultants or in house facilitators to help design work processes, assess and counsel individuals and advise on change management.
The second edition of this handbook offers a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date survey of the field with a focus on the applied aspects of work and health psychology.
An unrivalled source of knowledge and references in the field, for students and academics, this edition also reflects the need to relate research to effective and realistic interventions in the workplace.

• Editors are outstanding leaders in their fields
• Focuses on linking research to practice
• Over 50ew chapters. New topics include Coping, The Psychological Contract and Health, Assessment and Measurement of Stress and Well-Being, the Effects of Change, and chapters of Conflict and Communication

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Technical Manager's Handbook: A Survival Guide

Author: Melvin Silverman

'The Technical Manager's Handbook' serves as a valuable, cross-method reference to scientists, researchers, engineers, and students who are currently, or are soon to be involved in technical management operations. Managers and would-be managers in quality assurance, manufacturing, administration, and computer manufacturing will also benefit from this volumes accessible and practical exploration.

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Interprets the latest management theories and techniques and suggests how to use them and integrate them in the development of individual management styles. Includes material on dealing with international firms; TQM and ISO 9000; information systems; CAD management; ethics; motivation; and team structures, with chapter summaries, case studies, and questions. For researcher, engineers, and students involved in technical management operations, and managers in quality assurance, manufacturing, administrations, and computer manufacturing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	About the Author
Ch. 1	Technical Management: Who and What We Are	1
Ch. 2	The Manager: Dealing with Yourself - The Most Important Individual	31
Ch. 3	Beginning: Building Your Own Model/Theory	65
Ch. 4	The Whole Organization Design: A Little History, Many Models	85
Ch. 5	The Model Components	115
Ch. 6	People - Basic Building Blocks Concerning Motivation	135
Ch. 7	Putting Theory to Work: Motivation Prescribed	195
Ch. 8	Structures: Description and Prescription Semi-permanent Teams: Functions and Survival Today	217
Ch. 9	Prescriptions for Structures: Temporary Teams	257
Ch. 10	Technology: How We Do Things, Techniques and Systems	307
Ch. 11	Leadership and Ethics: Holding It All Together	349
Ch. 12	Repetitive Decision Systems: Information: Tell Me What's Happening in the Organization	393
Ch. 13	Costs and Measurement: What Do I Need as a Manager?	427
Ch. 14	Getting Things Changed	449
Ch. 15	Speculation on Future Uses and Personal Thoughts	483
	Index	497

Profiles in Entrepreneurship or Business Concepts for English Practice

Profiles in Entrepreneurship: Leaving More Than Footprints

Author: David C Nelson

Profiles in Entrepreneurship showcases success through the experiences of 29 highly successful entrepreneurs in their own words. Learn about topics like opportunity recognition, risk assessment, leadership, and how to compensate for limited resources from the first-hand accounts of leaders like Herb Kelleher, Red McCombs, and Katie Brickman Harvey. Each profile includes a look at their driving motivation, tactics, and strategies, highlights of their professional experiences, and a question and answer session. Also included is 2 hours of video--where the profiled entrepreneurs discuss their experiences as if they were addressing your own class. Profiles in Entrepreneurship provides the real-world experience and wisdom in a way that both engages and informs.

Table of Contents:

1. Sam Barshop, Barshop & Oles Company, Inc. 2. Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines 3. Ray Benson, Bandleader, Asleep at the Wheel 4. Stacey Bishkin, BBH Exhibits, Inc. 5. Randi Shade, Charitygift.com 6. Heriberto Guerra, Jr., SBC Communications, Inc. 7. Robert F. McDermott, USAA 8. Richard E. Tankerson, Carver Academy via Metropolitan Transit Authority 9. Jim Kozlowski, Texas Growth Fund & TGF Management Corp. 10. Walter Embrey, Embrey Development Company 11. C. Patrick Oles, Jr., Barshop & Oles Company, Inc. 12. Lowell Lebermann, Centex Beverage, Inc. 13. Nelson Wolff, Sun Harvest Foods 14. Katie Brickman Harvey, KG Brickman, Inc. 15. Charles E. Amato, Southwest Business Corporation/Employees Life Holding Company 16. Steve Hicks, AMFM, Inc. 17. Ian Fisher, Builders First Source 18. Gary Woods, McCombs Enterprises 19. Jan A. Lehman, Lehman McLeskey 20. Thomas Meredith, Dell Ventures 21. Jesse Luxton, Former President, CEO National Picture and Frame 22. Bob Marbut, Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. 23. Sonny Melendrez, Radio Personality 24. Peter Holt, The Holt Companies 25. Todd Maclin, Chase Bank 26. H.B. Zachry, Jr., H.B. Zachry Company 27. Bobby Inman, Venture Capitalist 28. Lionel Sosa, Media Consultant 29. Red McCombs, McCombs Automotive/Minnesota Vikings

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Business Concepts for English Practice

Author: Barbara Tolley Dowling

This book is a business-oriented English text with both an academic and an applied focus. It is intended for intermediate to advanced students of English who have an academic and/or professional interest in business. For students with little or no business terms are defined in the glossary. Those with experience in the business world and advanced language proficiency will be able to move more quickly through the readings and on to move more quickly through the readings and on to the application exercises and task-based activities.

Making Globalization or Consumer Behavior

Making Globalization

Author: Robert J Holton

This book offers a clear and concise account of the key debates in the globalization literature, serving as an accessible introduction to students new to the topic. It deals even-handedly with all the various dimensions of globalization--political, economic, social and cultural--and particularly draws attention to the role of people in processes of globalization. The book's historical dimension and its multicultural focus ensure that globalization is shown neither to be an inexorable process nor one that can be equated simply with Westernization.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	When did globalization begin?	28
3	Global patterning : systems, structures, fields, networks, Webs, and flows	55
4	Globalization and the transformation of space, and time	81
5	Global, national, regional, and local : competing or inter-dependent?	105
6	Global civil society	132
7	Globalization and its discontents	159
8	The making of globalization : puzzles and prospects	185

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Consumer Behavior

Author: James F Engel

This text contains diverse and balanced coverage of consumer behavior research in theory and application from some of the pioneering authors in this field. Ideal for one-term courses in consumer behavior offered by both marketing and psychology departments. This was the first text to integrate behavioral science with the decision orientation of the business school.

Keys to Engineering Success or Price Theory and Applications

Keys to Engineering Success

Author: Carol Carter

The variety of paths afforded an engineering student—academically and personally—can be both exciting and overwhelming. Required course work can seem sometimes irrelevant or, at the very least, extraordinarily difficult. Keys to Engineering Success offers an upfront description of what engineering is, skills needed to succeed, and information about what career opportunities are available upon graduation. Profiles of engineering professionals, and personal stories about a variety of people who have gone through an engineering program, offer inspiration and encouragement in pursuing academic and professional excellence.

Table of Contents:

1. What Is Engineering?
2. Where to Get Help When You Need It.
3. Individual Realities.
4. Goal Setting and Time Management.
5. Critical and Creative Thinking.
6. Reading and Study Skills.
7. Note-Taking and Writing.
8. Listening, Memory, and Test Taking.
9. Relating to Others.
10. Managing Career and Money.
11. Changing With the Future.
Appendix A. Types of Engineers.
Appendix B. Web Resources.
Index.

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Price Theory and Applications

Author: Landsburg

By the successful author of "The Armchair Economist" (a popular trade book that explains basic economics to the general public), this book makes intermediate microeconomics fun and intellectually challenging. The writing style provides an exceptionally friendly and application-rich presentation, combined with a rigorous and careful development of microeconomics theory. All of the standard topics of intermediate price theory are included, as well as many innovative topics, such as alternative normative criteria, efficient asset markets, contestable markets, antitrust law, human capital, demand for public goods, and more. A unique unifying theme of social welfare is used throughout. The inclusion of higher-level mathematics is minimal.