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| adam_text | PART I: BUSINESS AND PHILOSOPHY 1
1. PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS, AND BUSINESS 3
INTRODUCTION 3
THEREADINGS
The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase
I ts Profi ts, Milton Friedman 8
AN ANALYSIS OF FRIEDMAN S SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
ARTICLE 12
Is Business Bluffing Ethical? Albert Carr 21
The Failure of Friedman s Agency Argument,
Douglas Birsch 28
2. ETHICAL THEORY AND THE FREE MARKET 37
INTRODUCTION 37
Utilitarianism 37
Criticismsof Utilitarianism 39
Utilitarianism and the Free Market 41
An Analysis of the Utilitarian Defense of the Free Market 43
Individual Rights 47
THEREADINGS
Respect for Persons and Fraternity, R. S. Peters 50
Virtues and Business Ethics,yo.se/ /i R. Desjardins 54
3. LIBERTY AND THE MARKET 60
INTRODUCTION 60
The American System 60
Liberty and the Free Market 64
The Argument of the General Right to Liberty 65
The Argument of Private Property 66
The Argument of Civil Liberty 69
THEREADINGS
The Libertarian Manifesto, John Hospers 73
Socialist Democracy, Carl Cohen 83
4. THE CORPORATION AS ASOCIAL
INSTITUTION 96
INTRODUCTION 96
The Natureofthe Corporation 97
Corporate Social Responsibility 98
Corporate Governance and Control 102
THEREADINGS
Can a Corporation Have a Conscience? KennethE.
Goodpaster and John B. Matthews, Jr. 104
Why Corporations Are Not Morally Responsible for
Anything They Do, Manuel G. Velasquez 114
PART II: BUSINESS AND EMPLOYEES 127
5. LOYALTY, DUEPROCESS, AND
EMPLOYMENTATWILL 130
INTRODUCTION 130
CASE STUDY: ROMANCE AT IBM 133
THEREADINGS
Due Process, T. M. Scanion 135
Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty, Ronald Duska 142
Employment at Will: A Social Concept in Decline,
Debra A. Arvanitis and Burke T. Ward 147
DECISION SCENARIOS
Loyalty and Free Speech in the Workplace 154
Public Policy and Employment at Will 155
Whistleblowing at the Phone Company 156
Unwritten Employment Contracts 157
Wrongful Hiring 158
6. WORKERPARTICIPATION 159
INTRODUCTION 159
CASE STUDY: UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS: CLASS
CONFLICT IN AN EMPLOYEE OWNED FACTORY,
Jeremy Brecher 162
THEREADINGS
Participation in Employment,yo/my. McCall 165
Worker Participation: Industrial Democracy or Union
Power Enhancement? Herbert R. Northrup 173
The Worker, the Union, and the Democratic Workplace,
Kenneth 0. Alexander 177
DECISION SCENARIOS
Supermarket Workers Become Owners 185
Quality Circles and Labor Productivity 186
Avis Employees Purchase the Company 187
The Mondragon Cooperatives 188
The West German Model of Employee Participation 189
7. PRIVACY IN EMPLOYMENT 191
INTRODUCTION 191
CASE STUDY: DRUG TESTING OF RAILROAD
EMPLOYEES 195
THE READINGS
Privacy, Richard A. Wasserstrom 196
Drug Testing in Employment,/ we/?Ä R. Desjardins
and Ronald Duska 202
DECISION SCENARIOS
Surveillance at Work 208
AIDS Screening and Health Insurance 208
Privacy in Employment 209
Psychological Testing 210
Search and Seizure in the Workplace 210
8. WORKER SAFETY 212
INTRODUCTION 212
CASE STUDY: THE CYANAMID CASE: JOBS OR
HEALTH? 215
THE READINGS
The Occupational Safety and Health Problem, James Chelius 216
A Review of Some Normative and Conceptual Issues in
Occupational Safety and Health, Mark MacCarthy 223
The Case of the Burnside Foundry, Mary Gibson 237
viii CONTENTS
DECISION SCENARIOS
Video Display Terminals and Worker Health Complaints 245
OSHA s Cotton Dust Standard 246
Criminal Conviction of Corporations and Their Officers:
Film Recovery Systems, Inc. 247
Manville s Bankruptcy and Asbestos Litigation 248
OSHA and the Benzene Standard 250
PART III: BUSINESS AND CONSUMERS 251
9. PRODUCT LIABILITY AND SAFETY 255
INTRODUCTION 255
CASE STUDY: DIETHYLSTILBESTROL (DES) 259
THE READINGS
Products Liability: Must the Buyer Beware? Arthur Miller 261
Strict Products Liability and Compensatory Justice,
George G. Brenkert 274
Fairness, Strict Liability, and Public Policy, John J. McCall 281
Regulation and Paternalism, Steven Kelman 283
DECISION SCENARIOS
Tobacco Company Scorecard: 300 + to 1 295
The Michigan Toy Box Company 296
Greenman v. Yuba Power Products 297
Children and Reasonably Safe Products 298
A. H. Robbins and the Dalkon Shield 299
10. ADVERTISING 301
INTRODUCTION 301
CASE STUDY: BEECH NUT: RISKING RESPONSIBILITY
AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS FOR PROFITS,
Richard Burke 305
THE READINGS
Advertising and Free Speech, Joseph R. Desjardins and
John J. McCall 307
Reasonable Consumer or Ignorant Consumer? How the
FTC Decided, Ivan Preston 314
Why FTC Curbs Are Needed, James C. Miller 321
The Dependence Effect, John Kenneth Galbraith 323
Advertising and Behavior Control, Robert L. Arrington 326
Persuasive Advertising, Autonomy, and the Creation of
Desire, Roger Crisp 335
CONTENTS ix
DECISION SCENARIOS
Seven Marketing Pitches 341
Advertising s Image of Women 342
Listerine and Corrective Advertising 343
Advertising Headaches 344
Bait and Switch 345
PART IV: BUSINESS AND SOCIETY 347
11. BUSINESS AND THE ENVIRONMENT 350
INTRODUCTION 350
CASE STUDY: A HAZARDOUS WASTE SITE
BECOMES AN INFERNO AND NO ONE APPEARS
ACCOUNTABLE, Joseph F DiMento 352
THE READINGS
Environmental Management: Some Issues,
A. Myrick Freeman, Robert Haveman, and
Allen Kneese 354
Economic Theory and Environmental Law, Mark Sagoff 360
Failure of the Environmental Effort, Barry Commoner 365
DECISION SCENARIOS
Ozone Depletion and Consumer Products 371
Acid Rain 372
Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co. 373
Development Versus Conservation 374
The EPA s Management of Superfund 375
12. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND COMPARABLE
WORTH 377
INTRODUCTION 377
CASE STUDY: THE MEMPHIS FIREFIGHTERS CASE 382
THE READINGS
Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified, Lisa H. Newton 384
A Defense of Programs of Preferential Treatment,
Richard Wasserstrom 388
An Argument Against Comparable Worth, June O Neill 392
The Comparable Worth Debate, Ray Marshall and
Beth Paulin 402
DECISION SCENARIOS
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Meritor
Savings Bank 417
x CONTENTS
United Steelworkers of America v. Weber 418
Preferential Treatment for Men? 419
Women Wage Earners: Less is Best? 420
Setting Aside Set asides 421
13. MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS
AND THE THIRD WORLD 422
INTRODUCTION 422
CASE STUDY: THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST
SOUTH AFRICA 424
THE READINGS
Rich Nations, Poor Nations, Charles Krauthammer 426
Managing the Multinational Corporation,
Joan Edelman Spero 430
DECISION SCENARIOS
Brazil: Economic Development Versus Environmental
Protection 440
The Dalkon Shield and Sales to Foreign Countries 441
Union Carbide s Poison Gas Disaster at Bhopal 442
The Khian Sea: International Market for Trash 443
When in Rome : International Affirmative Action 444
14. PLANT CLOSURES AND LEVERAGED
BUYOUTS 446
INTRODUCTION 446
CASE STUDY: CLOSING A CHRYSLER PLANT 449
THE READINGS
Building Community into Property, Edmund F. Byrne 451
Two Ethical Issues in Mergers and Acquisitions,
Patricia H. Werhane 464
Charting Shark Infested Waters: Ethical Dimensions
of the Hostile Takeover, Lisa H. Newton 469
DECISION SCENARIOS
Maine s Plant Closing Legislation 476
Plant Closing Responsibilities 477
Management Strategies Against Takeovers 478
Governmental Reactions to Takeovers 479
Airline Acquisitions 480
INDEX 483
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