Moral Issues in Business

Businessethicshasaninterdisciplinarycharacter.Questionsofeconomicpolicyandbusinesspracticeintertwinewithissuesinpolitics,sociology,andorganisationaltheory.Althoughbusinessethicsremainsanchoredinphilosophy,abstractquestionsinnormativeethicsandpoliticalphilosophyminglewithanalysisofpracticalproblemsandconcretemoraldilemmas.Furthermore,businessethicsisnotjustanacademicstudybutalsoaninvitationtoreflectonourownvaluesandonourownresponsestothehardmoralchoicesthattheworldofbusinesscanpose.Thepurposeofthistextisfourfold:toexposestudentstotheimportantmoralissuesthatariseinvariousbusinesscontexts;toprovidestudentswithanunderstandingofthemoral,social,andeconomicenvironmentswithinwhichthoseproblemsoccur;tointroducestudentstotheethicalandotherconceptsthatarerelevantforresolvingthoseproblems;andtoassiststudentsindevelopingthenecessaryreasoningandanalyticalskillsfordoingso.Althoughthebook’sprimaryemphasisisonbusiness,itsscopeextendstorelatedmoralissuesinotherorganisationalandprofessionalcontextsThisthirdAsia–PacificeditionofMoralIssuesinBusinessexamineskeyideasinbusinessethicsinthecontextofmoralandethicalissuesencounteredbyAustralianandNewZealandbusinessesandorganisations.Structuredwithin11chaptersoftext–includingnew,cuttingedgeethicaltheoriesandpractices–MoralIssuesinBusinesspresentsthelatestethicalinsightsandthinkinginamannerthatisaccessibletostudents.