Business Ethics

Professor Marianne M. Jennings, emeritus professor of legal and ethical studies, taught at the WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, from 1977 through 2019. She was named professor of the year in the College of Business in 1981, 1987, 2000 and 2010 and was the recipient of a Burlington Northern teaching excellence award in 1985. She taught in ASU’s CPA Review course and CPAExcel Review course from 1984–2023. Professor Jennings earned her undergraduate degree in finance and her J.D. from Brigham Young University and has been a member of the Arizona and Federal Bars since 1977. She has four textbooks and five monographs in circulation in the areas of business law, business ethics, ethical culture and legal environment. She was director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics from 1995 to 1999. Professor Jennings has authored hundreds of articles in academic, professional and trade journals. She is a contributing editor for the Real Estate Law Journal. She was a contributing editor for Ethikos from 2019–2021. She served on the Board of Editors for the Financial Analysts Journal from 2007–2012. She served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Legal Studies Education during 2003–2004. During 1984–85, she served as then-Governor Bruce Babbitt's appointee to the Arizona Corporation Commission. In 1999, she was appointed by then-Governor Jane Dee Hull to the Arizona Commission on Character. Her columns have been syndicated around the country and her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, Washington Post and the Reader's Digest. A collection of her essays, "Nobody Fixes Real Carrot Sticks Anymore," first published in 1994, is still being published. She was a contributing editor of Corporate Finance Review from and Real Estate Law Journal. Two of her books have been named Library Journal ’s book of the year.

• UNIT 1: Ethical Theory, Philosophical Foundations, Our Reasoning Flaws, Types of Ethical Dilemmas, and You.SECTION A Understanding Ourselves and Ethical Lapses.SECTION B Ethical Theory and Philosophical Foundations.SECTION C The Types of Ethical Dilemmas.SECTION D Our Reasoning Flaws.SECTION E Analyzing and Resolving Ethical Dilemmas.UNIT 2: Solving Ethical Dilemmas in Business.SECTION A Business, Ethics, and Individuals: How Do They Work Together?SECTION B What Gets in the Way of Ethical Decisions in Business?SECTION C Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Business.UNIT 3: Business, Stakeholders, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability.SECTION A Business and Society: The Tough Issues of Economics, Social Responsibility, Stakeholders, and Business.SECTION B Applying Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory.SECTION C Government as a Stakeholder.UNIT 4: Ethics and Company Culture.SECTION A Temptation at Work for Individual Gain and That Credo.SECTION B The Organizational Behavior Factors.SECTION C Accounting and Governance Factor.SECTION D The Psychological and Behavior Factors.SECTION E The Structural Factors: Governance, Example, and Leadership.SECTION F Industry Practices and Legal Factors.SECTION G The Fear-and-Silence Factors.SECTION H Culture of Goodness.UNIT 5: Ethics and Contracts.SECTION A Contract Negotiations: All Is Fair and Conflicting Interests.SECTION B Promises, Performance, and Reality.UNIT 6: Ethics in International Business.SECTION A Conflicts between the Corporation’s Ethics and Business Practices in Foreign Countries.SECTION B Bribes, Grease Payments, and “When in Rome …”UNIT 7: Ethics, Business Operations, and Rights.SECTION A Workplace Safety.SECTION B Workplace Loyalty.SECTION C Workplace Diversity and Atmosphere.SECTION D Tough Issues and Confrontation in the Workplace.UNIT 8: Ethics and Products.SECTION A Advertising Content.SECTION B Product Safety.SECTION C Product Sales.UNIT 9: Ethics and Competition.SECTION A Covenants Not to Compete.SECTION B All’s Fair, or Is It?SECTION C Intellectual Property and Ethics.The Ethical Common Denominator (ECD) Index: The Common Threads of Business Ethics.Alphabetical Index.Business Discipline Index.Product/Company/Individuals Index.Topic Index.