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Unit 1 Ethics, values, and social responsibility in business 1. Thinking ethically: a framework for moral decision making -- 2. Voicing values, finding answers -- 3. Is business ethics getting better? A historical perspective -- 4. Building an ethical framework -- 5. Principles for building an ethical organization -- 6. Moral management methodology/ mythology: erroneous ethical equations -- Unit 2 Ethical issues and dilemmas in the workplace 7. Employers are stung with a hefty price when employees suffer an identity theft -- 8. Are you too family friendly? -- 9. High rates of misconduct at all levels of government -- 10. Under pressure, teachers tamper with test scores -- 11. Investigation into APS (Atlanta public schools) cheating finds unethical behavior across every level -- 12. When you're most vulnerable to fraud -- 13. When good people do bad things at work -- 14. Behind the Murdoch scandal? Scandalous governance -- 15. More men make harassment claims -- 16. American apparel and the ethics of a sexually charged workplace -- 17. What the Wal-Mart ruling means for big business -- 18. Older workers: running to the courthouse? -- 19. Fighting the high cost of " getting even" at work -- 20. Cost reductions, downsizing-related layoffs, and HR practices -- 21. People have to come before profits, even in a crisis -- 22. Protecting the whistleblower -- 23. Deep throat's lessons for whistle-blowers -- 24. SEC rule will let whistle-blowers bypass internal programs -- 25. The parable of the sadhu -- 26. "Rogue" trading lasted 3 years -- Unit 3 Business and society: contemporary ethical, social, and environmental issues 27. Trust in the marketplace -- 28. Privacy and the Internet: lives of others -- 29. The new e-spionage threat -- 30. The ethics of social media part I: adjusting to a 24/7 world -- 31. The ethics of social media part II: playing by new rules -- 32. Ethics must be global, not local -- 33. Conceptualizing a framework for global business ethics. -- 34. Revisiting the global business ethics question -- 35. Taking your code to China -- Unit 4 Ethics and social responsibility in the marketplace 36. Honest innovation -- 37. Serving unfair customers -- 38. Emerging lessons -- 39. First, make money, also, do good -- 40. Fraud continues, but so does good corporate citizenship -- Unit 5 Developing the future ethos and social responsibility of business 41. Creating an ethical culture -- 42. Outside-the-box ethics -- 43. Hiring character -- 44. Strategic organizational diversity: a model? -- 45. When generations collide -- 46. Fiduciary principles: corporate responsibilities to stakeholders -- 47. A time for ethical self-assessment.

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