Policies and persons: a casebook in business ethics
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1998
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CONTENTS
Preface ix
Introduction: The Case Method 1
Personal Values
PETER GREEN'S FIRST DAY 9
A young man's boss expects him to give an
unwarranted discount to an important sales account.
DILEMMA OF AN ACCOUNTANT 11
A junior accountant strongly disagrees on ethical
grounds when his superior overrides one of his audit
opinions, but the professional standards that should
guide his subsequent actions are susceptible to
different interpretations.
MARTHA MCCASKEY 14
When does consulting become industrial espionage—
stealing the intellectual property of competitors?
What can a middle level manager do if she has
doubts about her own behavior and her company's
integrity?
ETHICAL QUAGMIRE 25
Ethics in the consulting business; a specific problem
in the context of professional standards.
INTERNATIONAL DRILLING
CORPORATION (A) 32
When (or if) and how to blow the whistle on the head
of the company.
VIKING AIR COMPRESSOR, INC. 40
Conflicting views on what constitutes socially
responsible corporate behavior and the means of
achieving it.
Corporate Values: Looking Inward
THE INDIVIDUAL AND
THE CORPORATION 48
When John F. Kennedy is shot, an executive takes a
public position on that event which may embarrass
his company; his action raises substantial questions
about the responsibilities and rights of corporations
and executives toward each other.
Vi CONTENTS
AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY 58
When employees are exposed to potentially harmful
chemicals, special measures for physical protection
may seem in order but also pose the possibility of
sexual discrimination in company policies.
JIM SAWYER (A) 66
Policies and problems regarding employees suffering
from alcoholism.
MEBEL DORAN COMPANY 73
The head of a large investment company becomes
aware that some of his executives may inadvertently
have become involved in insider trading activities.
H. J. HEINZ COMPANY: THE
ADMINISTRATION OF POLICY (A) 80
The ethics of executive behavior in the context of
incentive compensation, goal setting, and other
corporate mechanisms; instances of questionable
activity have begun to emerge.
H. J. HEINZ COMPANY: THE
ADMINISTRATION OF POLICY (B) 86
The company now has firmer information; what action
should be taken?
THREE SHORT CASES ON SEXUAL
HARASSMENT 97
In each of the three caselets, based on the experiences
of Harvard Business School students, issues of
personal judgment and corporate policy are
intimately linked.
NOTES ON THE DEVELOPMENT
OF CORPORATE GUIDELINES
CONCERNING DISCRIMINATION
IN THE WORKPLACE 100
A major law firm develops a working set of guidelines
for its corporate clients to help deal responsibly with
the laws concerning employment discrimination.
LEX SERVICE GROUP, LTD. (A):
DEVELOPING THE GUIDELINES 106
Whether, why, and for whom a corporation should
develop guidelines for behavior.
LEX SERVICE GROUP, LTD. (B):
CLOSING PORTSMOUTH DEPOT 110
LEX SERVICE GROUP, LTD. (C):
WORK CONDITIONS AT INGLESBY
SHIPYARD 117
LEX SERVICE GROUP, LTD. (D):
THE READING PALLETS THEFT 121
As executives begin to apply these guidelines to actual
situations at the company, ethical courses of action
become problematic.
BUILDING TRUST AT WARNER GEAR 124
When trust between management and labor breaks
down, it is hard to rebuild. At Warner Gear, the
challenge was formidable and the stakes were high.
REELL PRECISION MANUFACTURING, INC.:
A MATTER OF DIRECTION 135
When a company has been successful for years partly
because of its strong Judeo Christian culture, how
should it respond to those who claim that this is
discriminatory?
Corporate Values: Looking Outward
TENNESSEE COAL AND IRON 155
Company community relationships; should a business
firm take action regarding issues of race relations
that face a community?
THE POLETOWN DILEMMA 164
Should General Motors keep its plant in Detroit or
move it to another location? At what cost to
shareholders? Should Detroit accommodate General
Motors to keep the company from moving? At what
cost to the citizens of Poletown?
DAYTON HUDSON CORPORATION:
CONSCIENCE AND CONTROL (A) 178
DAYTON HUDSON CORPORATION:
CONSCIENCE AND CONTROL (B) 193
DAYTON HUDSON CORPORATION:
CONSCIENCE AND CONTROL (C) 200
: A hostile takeover attempt of a company with an
outstanding record of corporate community
involvement and the resulting implications to the
meaning of ownership and governance in today's
corporation.
NORTHWEST AIRLINES: PRIVATE
SECTOR, PUBLIC TRUST 206
Corporations are called upon to demonstrate
responsibility toward communities. Do communities
have responsibilities toward corporations?
THE BUSH FOUNDATION: A CASE
STUDY IN GIVING MONEY AWAY 220
When a nonprofit foundation takes great pains to give
money away with social responsibility, does it also
have a duty to invest its principal according to social
criteria?
ALCO BEVERAGE COMPANY
AND MODERATION ADVERTISING 229
Can a company realistically encourage moderation in
the consumption of its product? What is responsible
marketing behavior when overconsumption is
socially hazardous?
NOTE ON PRODUCT SAFETY 245
A background note for the product safety cases.
MANAGING PRODUCT SAFETY:
THE FORD PINTO 249
MANAGING PRODUCT SAFETY:
THE FIRESTONE 500 258
MANAGING PRODUCT SAFETY:
THE PROCTER AND GAMBLE
RELY TAMPON 267
Three classic cases on problems of product safety,
government regulation, and customer reactions.
SUPER SOAKER 274
What does a company do when people are seriously
injured from the misuse of one of its products? Does
the company bear any social and moral
responsibility in this situation?
CONTENTS VH
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH, INC.
A NOTE ON THE BIOTECHNOLOGY
INDUSTRY 284
What responsibility does a company in a new
technology have for anticipating possible abuses
with its products?
ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES (A) 313
What has often been referred to as the "classic
pollution case," wherein a previously authorized
mining and processing operation on Lake Superior's
shores is now charged with violating a variety of
environmental regulations.
DUPONT FREON PRODUCTS
DIVISION (A) 332
A case that describes the ozone layer depletion
problem and asks how a large company with a big
stake influorocarbons comes to terms with the ethics
of it all.
ASHLAND OIL, INC.: TROUBLE
AT FLOREFFE (A) 353
How candid should a chief executive be when the
company appears to have been negligent regarding
an oil spill? What if the lawyers have a lot to say
about potential litigation?
EXXON VALDEZ: CORPORATE
RECKLESSNESS ON TRIAL 365
In the highest profile civil damage case in corporate
legal history, the jury had to determine what was fair
to all the parties—both as to compensation and as to
punishment.
Corporate Values:
International Business
THE FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES
ACT: A RECONSIDERATION 384
The text of the 1977 act, a discussion of its impact,
and proposed changes in it.
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CHANGMAI CORPORATION 392
The new general manager of a Malaysian paper
producing subsidiary of an international corporation
is asked by the local environmental ministry for a
bribe, and weighs the consequences.
SAFETY FIRST? 398
An American manager in Jakarta is troubled over
differing standards of workplace safety between
America and Indonesia. When do differences deserve
criticism?
THE EVALUATION 401
A Swiss multinational manager faces a dilemma as he
tries to apply to a senior Thai employee a corporate
performance appraisal system that seemed to pit
principle against respect for cultural differences.
THE IBM FUJITSU DISPUTE 407
Examination of a controversy over intellectual
property ownership, its resolution, and implications
for future international trade relations.
SMOKING AND HEALTH: UNITED STATES
TOBACCO COMPANIES—NATIONAL
AND INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS 420
An industry case that raises issues of smoking and
health both in the United States and other countries.
UPDATE ON THE U.S. TOBACCO
INDUSTRY 437
A summary of major changes in U.S. tobacco
regulation in 1996 and 1997 and a comparison with
overseas activity reveals a change of rules but not of
issues.
NOTE ON THE EXPORT OF
PESTICIDES FROM THE UNITED STATES
TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 440
Ethical issues regarding the sales of pesticides to less
developed countries when those pesticides cannot be
sold or can be sold only for restricted use in the
United States.
VELSICOL CHEMICAL
CORPORATION (A) 458
A case that gives life to the Note on the Export of
Pesticides case by showing how one company took
on the challenge of trying to make an ethical
difference in its Third World marketing practices.
DOW CORNING CORPORATION:
BUSINESS CONDUCT AND GLOBAL
VALUES (A) 479
How to develop a comprehensive ethics policy for a
global enterprise, even when local ethical norms
may differ.
DOW CORNING CORPORATION: THE
BREAST IMPLANT CONTROVERSY 498
Ten years after the Dow Corning case on the global
business conduct policy, the company is driven into
Chapter 11 by a controversy over the safety of its
silicone breast implants.
A. ETHICAL FRAMEWORKS
FOR MANAGEMENT 516
A new introduction to some of the major concepts of
moral philosophy with suggestions for their use in
analyzing cases.
B. BRIDGING EAST AND WEST IN
MANAGEMENT ETHICS: KYOSEI
AND THE MORAL POINT OF VIEW 530
A discussion of some basic similarities between
Western and Asian ethical ideals and their
application to corporations through the Caux
Roundtable Principles of Business Conduct. |
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