Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk About How To Do It Right [Paperback]

Linda K. Trevino (Author), Katherine A. Nelson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471230545 | ISBN-13: 978-0471230540 | Publication Date: July 15, 2003 | Edition: 3

Offering a highly realistic, down-to-earth look at ethics in the workplace, Linda K. Treviño and Katherine A. Nelson's Managing Business Ethics will help you identify and solve ethical dilemmas, understand why people behave and the way they do, and promote ethical behavior in your organization. The text moves beyond the scope of prescriptive individual ethical decision making to examinie how managers and organizations influence ethical decision making and behavior. Throughout, the emphasis is on common, real-life work situations, including hiring, managing, assessing performance, disciplining, firing, and providing incentives for staff, as well as producing quality products and services and dealing effectively and fairly with customers, vendors, and other stakeholders.

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Two experts in the field look at business ethics in a radically new way, stressing the importance of considering ethics as an issue that can be managed much like other cultural characteristics. Uses easy-to-understand terms to describe ethical dilemmas, concentrating on typical dilemmas a middle manager may encounter, how managers can encourage ethics in their departments and how an organization can manage ethics through its culture. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Practical Strategies for Promoting Ethical Behavior

Offering a highly realistic, down-to-earth look at ethics in the workplace, Linda K. Treviño and Katherine A. Nelson's Managing Business Ethics will help you identify and solve ethical dilemmas, understand why people behave and the way they do, and promote ethical behavior in your organization.

The text moves beyond the scope of prescriptive individual ethical decision making to examinie how managers and organizations influence ethical decision making and behavior. Throughout, the emphasis is on common, real-life work situations, including hiring, managing, assessing performance, disciplining, firing, and providing incentives for staff, as well as producing quality products and services and dealing effectively and fairly with customers, vendors, and other stakeholders.

Highlights of the Third Edition

• Features new research and new examples from recent business scandals at companies such as Arthur Anderson, Enron, Citigroup, and others.
• Takes a pragmatic, managerial approach that focuses on how managers and organizations can influence behavior.
• Cases reflect the kinds of problems that most people will encounter during the course of their careers.
• Incorporates current empirical research on ethics and organizational behavior, including recent research on ethical leadership (conducted by Professor Treviño and colleagues).
• Includes reflections written by Renee Flemish, executive director of the Salvation Army's World Trade Center relief program.
• A revised chapter on managing ethics and legal compliance examines the approaches to ethics management at seven major companies.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 3 edition (July 15, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471230545
• ISBN-13: 978-0471230540
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #905,617 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essentials on Business Ethics, August 3, 2003

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Kay Keenan (Wilmington, DE United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk About How To Do It Right (Paperback)

This should be mandatory reading for business leaders today. It is one of the leading college textbooks on the subject and for good reason--the stories are incredible.

Having worked at Scott Paper Compnay during the Al Dunlap regime, I know that the stories may be hard to believe but are true.

The chapters do a good job of building on each other and the writing style is readable.

Glad to have the next edition published.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A practical approach to ethics!, September 27, 2001

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maria suokannas (espoo, finland Finland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk About How to Do It Right, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

This is my favourite book about ethics! The examples are down-to-earth and the theories are presented in a way that makes it easier to grasp and bring into classrooms!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Business Ethics Classroom Discussion, October 20, 2005

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S. Stamper "golfdiva" (Dallas TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk About How To Do It Right (Paperback)

This was a mandatory book for an MBA program on Business Ethics. It puts ethics in everyday language and examples and is not all theory.