Colin Fisher, Nottingham Trent University
Alan Lovell, Dean, Glamorgan Business School

Publisher: Financial Times Press
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 656 pp

ISBN-10:	0273716166
ISBN-13:	9780273716167

Our Price: £36.99
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Estimated Availability: 18 Dec 2008

A comprehensive look at the fascinating and complex subject of ethics in business that is both theoretically rich and engaging.

Fisher and Lovell focus on developing ethical awareness and give as much importance to individual conscience at work as they do to socially responsible behaviour at the corporate level and within the global business world.

Business Ethics and Values is suitable for any Business related Ethics, Sustainability or Corporate Social Responsibility course at an upper level undergraduate or Masters level.

PART A: BUSINESS ETHICS MATTERS: WHAT IS IT AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?
1.  Perspectives on business ethics and values
2.  Ethical issues in business
3.  Ethical theories and how to use them

PART B: INDIVIDUALS' RESPONSES TO ETHICAL ISSUES
4.  Personal values in the workplace
5.  Values and heuristics
6.  Individual responses to ethical situation
7.  Whistleblower or witness?

PART C: ORGANISATIONAL RESPONSES TO ETHICAL ISSUES
8.  Corporate responsibility, corporate governance and corporate citizenship
9.  Sustainability and the responsible corporation
10. Ethical conformance: codes, standards, culture, leadership and citizen power

PART D THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
11. Global and local values  - and international business
12. Globalisation and international business
13.  Moral agency at work and a modest proposal for affecting ethics in business

14.  Concluding integrative case studies

Key Features

• Excellent cases, interesting examples and challenging items for discussion put students in a position where ethical questions must be considered and debated.
• Good critical and international contexts encourage debate on contemporary concerns such as globalization, sustainability, financial regulation etc.
• Presents issues from multiple perspectives, reflecting the complex and inter-disciplinary nature of the subject.

Supplements

• Revised and improved PowerPoint slides
• Good Lecturer notes on the cases and assignments and Lecturers Q&As
• Video clips for lecturers. 
• Additional case studies from Harvard University Press (available for purchase).
• New Podcasts and Weblinks for students.

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New to this third edition

• Increased coverage of sustainability
• Two new longer case studies in the final chapter explore how different perspectives and multiple problems interconnect in real life situations.
• New Video Clips of interviews with Managers from companies around the world who discuss issues of ethical bearing in their business.
• New Podcasts for students that discuss how current issues in the news can be viewed from an ethical standpoint.