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.