Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics

Keith W. Krasemann is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies and Director of the Regional Center for Asian Studies Development Programs at the College of DuPage. He currently has three books in print: Business Ethics: Problems, Principles, Practical Applications, Quest for Goodness: An Introduction to Ethics, and Questions for the Soul: An Introduction to Philosophy. Patricia H. Werhane holds the Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics at DePaul University and is Executive Director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics at DePaul University with a joint appointment as the Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics at the Darden School, University of Virginia. An accomplished author, teacher, and researcher, Dr. Werhane's most recently co-authored Employment and Employee Rights.

the individual essays are fascinating and finely argued contributions to contemporary debates in bioethics.

• Chapter 1 Foreword and DedicationChapter 2 AcknowledgementsChapter 3 Introductory Essay: Promoting Business and Professional Ethics to New Generations of Civic and Business LeadersChapter 4 1. Teaching Professional Ethics: Where, Why, and How?Chapter 5 2. Can Business Ethics Be Taught?Chapter 6 3. Corporate Social Responsibility in a Global EconomyChapter 7 4. The Impartial Judge: Detachment or Passion?Chapter 8 5. How to Read a Contract: From Self-Interest to Fairness and DecencyChapter 9 6. What is Evil?Chapter 10 7. Technology and Ethics: Privacy in the WorkplaceChapter 11 8. The Ethics of Everyday Life: Social Class and Moral Character in Women's NarrativesChapter 12 9. Lying and Lawyering: An Honest PerspectiveChapter 13 10. Spirituality in the Workplace: Individual and Organizational TransformationChapter 14 11. Why Do Good People Do Bad Things? The Challenge of Business Ethics and Corporate LeadershipChapter 15 12. "It's Business; We're Soldiers" The Sopranos, Liberal Business Ethics, and this American Thing of OursChapter 16 13. Tissue Banking: Disclosure, Informed Consent, and the Rule of LawChapter 17 About the Contributors