Business Ethics

Description

The intention of this book is to serve as a compendium which contributes to a better understanding of major ethical terminology and basic ethical systems orientated towards business ethics. This book is divided into two parts. The first part is theoretical in which survey of main ethical terminology and the most important ethical systems are presented. The second part of this book focuses on applied ethics in which a few cases are analyzed from the position of normative ethics.

Content

1. Introduction
   1. The basic question of ethics
   2. Why we have to study ethics
   3. Other reasons for studying ethics
   4. The reasons for studying business ethics
2. Introduction to Ethics
   1. The meaning of the word ‘ethics’
   2. Ethics in the ethos
   3. Ethics in morality
   4. Autonomous, heteronomous, theonomous
   5. Definition of ethics
   6. Goals of ethical study
3. Ethics by Recognition Aims
   1. System classification of ethics
   2. Descriptive ethics
   3. Normative ethics
   4. Meta-ethics
   5. Graphical depiction
4. Normative Ethics Schools
   1. Ancient hedonism
   2. Utilitarianism
   3. Empiristic ethics
   4. Ethics by norms or principles
   5. Casuistic ethics
   6. Situation ethics
   7. Ethics of reckoning
   8. Deontological ethics
   9. Ethics of responsibility
5. Ethics by Orientation
   1. Applied ethics
   2. Anthropological orientation
6. Business Ethics
   1. Values in business ethics
   2. Freedom
   3. Justice
   4. Responsibility
   5. Trust
   6. Progress
   7. Prosperity
   8. Sustainability
   9. Rationality
7. Introduction to Case studies
   1. Case study
   2. Definition of the case study for ethics
8. Case: Students‘ thesis
   1. Introduction
   2. Case analysis from different schools of normative ethics perspective
9. Case: Loyal employee
   1. Introduction
   2. Analysis of the case from the perspective of different schools of normative ethics
10. Literature