Understanding Business Ethics
- Peter A. Stanwick - Auburn University, USA
- Sarah D. Stanwick - Auburn University, USA
Business Ethics
Filled with real-world case studies and examples of ethical dilemmas, Understanding Business Ethics prepares you to make ethical decisions in today’s complex, global environment. Bestselling authors explain the fundamental importance of ethical leadership, decision making, and strategic planning while examining emerging trends in business ethics such as the developing world, human rights, environmental sustainability, and technology.
In addition to presenting information related to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the text’s 26 real-world cases profile a variety of industries, countries, and ethical issues in a way that is relevant and meaningful to your lives. Using an applied approach, this text helps you understand why and how business ethics really do matter!
NEW TO THIS EDITION:
- New coverage of current and relevant topics such as corporate social responsibility, information technology, social media, big data, NGOs as stakeholders, and challenges to establishing an ethical organisation
- New chapter-opening vignettes and real-life ethical dilemmas highlight contemporary examples such as “The Interview” movie and North Korea, Samsung and Child Labour, and the Hillsborough football disaster
- New cases covering recent ethical situations such as Disney’s corporate social responsibility reputation and the General Motor’s ignition recall issue show you how to practically apply the concepts being learned to their everyday life
- An extensive instructor’s manual covering all of the case studies and exercises in the book as well as links to additional material.
The free, open-access Student Study site at study.sagepub.com/stanwick3e features web quizzes, web resources, video resources, and more. There is also a dedicated Instructor site providing additional teaching resources.
Supplements
Use the Student Study Site to get the most out of your course!
Our Student Study Site at http://study.sagepub.com/stanwick3e is completely open-access and offers a wide range of additional features, including something no other publisher offers: SAGE Journal articles!
The open-access Student Study Site includes the following:
- Mobile-friendly web quizzes allow for independent assessment of progress made in learning course material.
- Carefully selected, video links feature relevant interviews, lectures, personal stories, inquiries, and other content for use in independent or classroom-based explorations of key topics.
- EXCLUSIVE! Access to certain full-text SAGE journal articles that have been carefully selected for each chapter. Each article supports and expands on the concepts presented in the chapter.
- Web resources are included for further research and insights.
Calling all instructors!
It’s easy to log on to SAGE’s password-protected Instructor Teaching Site at http://study.sagepub.com/stanwick3e for complete and protected access to all text-specific Instructor Resources for Understanding Business Ethics, Third Edition. Simply provide your institutional information for verification and within 72 hours you’ll be able to use your login information for any SAGE title!
Password-protected Instructor Resources include the following:
- A Microsoft® Word® test bank is available containing multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and essay questions for each chapter. The test bank provides you with a diverse range of pre-written options as well as the opportunity for editing any question and/or inserting your own personalized questions to effectively assess students’ progress and understanding.
- A Respondus electronic test bank is available and can be used on PCs. The test bank contains multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and essay questions for each chapter and provides you with a diverse range of pre-written options as well as the opportunity for editing any question and/or inserting your own personalized questions to effectively assess students’ progress and understanding. Respondus is also compatible with many popular learning management systems so you can easily get your test questions into your online course.
- Editable, chapter-specific Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides offer you complete flexibility in easily creating a multimedia presentation for your course.
- An instructor guide includes sample answers to the discussion questions in the book.
- Case notes include PowerPoint slides and a Word file of teaching notes for each case are designed for instructors to expand questions to students, or initiate class discussion.
- EXCLUSIVE! Access to certain full-text SAGE journal articles that have been carefully selected for each chapter. Each article supports and expands on the concepts presented in the chapter.
- Sample course syllabi for semester and quarter courses provide suggested models for use when creating the syllabi for your courses.
- Chapter-specific discussion questions help launch classroom interaction by prompting students to engage with the material and by reinforcing important content.
- Carefully selected, web-based video links feature relevant interviews, lectures, personal stories, inquiries, and other content for use in independent or classroom-based explorations of key topics.
- Web resources are included for further research and insights.
“Looking for a deeply reflected and applicable textbook for in-class use in business ethics? Here it is. The best textbook I’ve ever found is the Stanwicks’ masterpiece. Your students will love it.”
“Great textbook, with relevant cases from the real world.”
“Excellent book with proper framing and interesting analyzes in various areas/fields, with special emphasis on practical cases.”
Understanding Business Ethics has sound principles that is a good fit for an undergraduate ethics course. The companion materials also add breadth to my instruction.
This is an excellent book, well structured and clear content, whit a very practical approach on business and a lot of examples.
This text provides a comprehensive overview of Business Ethics with a firm grounding in the various ethical approaches.
I did adopt this text for 2016 - 2017 but I am not finding it what I need. I had used Johnson, C. Managing Ethical Challenges of Leadership in the past and believe that was a better fit with my course. I just requested the text by Johnson on Organizational Ethics and hope to use that in 2017 - 2018.
I am using this text this semester. It works well, but I still find that I need to supplement it with more "meaty" materials on financial, marketing, and human capital management. I have also found that the portion of Chapter 11 on global ethics was mainly geared toward social and environmental ethical issues. I needed more on corruption, bribery and negotiation with companies from different cultures.
New chapters & case studies are good additions.