This popular text on Business Ethics introduces you to the ethical concepts that are relevant to resolving moral issues in business and imparts the reasoning and anaytical skills needed to apply ethical concepts to business decisions. It identifies moral issues specific to a business, provides an understanding of the social, technological, and natural environments within which moral issues in business arise, and supplies case studies of actual moral conflicts faced by businesses. The ethical landscape of business is constantly changing and this edition has been revised to keep pace with those changes most effecting business: accelerating globalization; constant technological updates; and proliferating of business scandals.

Part 1 Basic Principles
1. Ethics and Business
2. Ethical Principles in Business

Part 2 The Market and Business
3. The Business System: Government, Market, and International Trade
4. Ethics in the Marketplace

Part 3 Business and Its External Exchanges Ecology and Consumers
5. Ethics and the Environment
6. The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing

Part 4 Ethics and Employees
7. The Ethics of Job Discrimination
8. Ethics and the Employee