Business Ethics with CD-ROM (6th Edition) [Paperback]

Richard DeGeorge (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130991635 | ISBN-13: 978-0130991638 | Publication Date: February 11, 2005 | Edition: 6th

This interesting, comprehensive book about business ethics argues that ethics is the ‘glue’ that makes successful business possible. It allows the reader to see the whole range of issues in business ethics rather than just selected topics. Its focus on internationalization and globalization is important, as it relates facts about this dynamic, growing aspect of corporate business. This book not only covers ethics, it also includes such topics as: management, production, marketing, finance, workers’ rights, and environmental issues; it enables readers to see how all of the issues presented are interrelated. An excellent resource and reference work for international corporate employees, marketing administrators, and human resource managers and employees.

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A comprehensive business ethics text that is the work of a single author rather than an anthology, ensuring a more integrated, systematic presentation. Following an overview of today's business scene, the book explores the techniques of moral reasoning and how they apply to all areas of business. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 656 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 6th edition (February 11, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130991635
• ISBN-13: 978-0130991638
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #459,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Boring, boring, and way too much text on a page., April 2, 2009

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cosmosmommy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Business Ethics with CD-ROM (6th Edition) (Paperback)

I am an instructor with a very large private institution. We have no choice in the texts -- they are assigned to us and we MUST use them. I found this book to be tedious and boring. I'm 100% positive my students will not bother with this text unless I give them pop quizzes on the material. Paragraphs of 20-25 sentences are difficult to read. And there's no instructor materials. Instructors, if you have a choice AVOID this book at all costs.

1.0 out of 5 stars Not that you have a choice, September 14, 2008

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This review is from: Business Ethics with CD-ROM (6th Edition) (Paperback)

I doubt anyone is looking at this printed flotsam for casual reading, but on the off chance a course instructor might read this, I'll give a firm warning - don't use this for your course.

While the theory it employs is interesting, it is steeped in outdated methods and filled with outdated information. If you're going to try to use it in a classroom setting, you must augment a book like this with a tremendous amount of current data...or completely fail to prepare your students for the current business environment, which has shifted greatly since the original version was written and barely updated. Ethics themselves may not have changed, but the ethical challenges one faces in businesses are not constant.

Furthermore, to push out version after version of a book with minor and insufficient updates and charge this much for it isn't ethical, so the people behind this book have no business teaching a subject they obviously have no experience in.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I don't get this book, June 22, 2008

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Michael P. Quinn (Lewisville, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Business Ethics with CD-ROM (6th Edition) (Paperback)

This book is supposed to teach business ethics, but it reads like a philosophy book. The book is very wishy washy in presenting how decisions should be made leaving almost everything open ended.

The book spends a lot of time talking about morales, and the base morales of society. For example, killing someone is bad, right? But what about if you are attacked with deadly force? Yes, that discussion might be appropriate for a class on personal morales, but when can a business be attacked with deadly force and justify killing a individual?

I believe the book gives too little focus to the topic that is the title of the book. There are a few case studies in the book, and those are worthwhile, but the remaining 90% of the book is not worth reading to learn about business ethics.