Business Ethics Case Studies

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Business Ethics Case Studies and Selected Readings

EIGHTH EDITION

MARIANNE MOODY JENNINGS Arizona State University

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Brief Contents Preface xiv Acknowledgments xxii

UNIT 1 Ethical Theory, Philosophical Foundations, Our Reasoning Flaws, and Types of Ethical Dilemmas 1

SECTION A Defining Ethics 2 SECTION B Resolving Ethical Dilemmas 33

UNIT 2 Solving Ethical Dilemmas and Personal Introspection 53 SECTION A Business and Ethics: How Do They Work Together? 54 SECTION B What Gets in the Way of Ethical Decisions in Business? 65 SECTION C Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Business 79

UNIT 3 Business, Stakeholders, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability 109 SECTION A Business and Society: The Tough Issues of Economics,

Social Responsibility, and Business 110 SECTION B Applying Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory 126 SECTION C Social Responsibility and Sustainability 170 SECTION D Government as a Stakeholder 179

UNIT 4 Ethics and Company Culture 189 SECTION A Temptation at Work for Individual Gain and That Credo 190 SECTION B The Organizational Behavior Factors 194 SECTION C The Psychological and Behavior Factors 219 SECTION D The Structural Factors: Governance, Example, and Leadership 246 SECTION E The Industry Practices and Legal Factors 274 SECTION F The Fear-and-Silence Factor 303 SECTION G The Culture of Goodness 342

UNIT 5 Ethics and Contracts 357 SECTION A Contract Negotiations: All Is Fair and Conflicting Interests 358 SECTION B Promises, Performance, and Reality 368

UNIT 6 Ethics in International Business 387 SECTION A Conflicts Between the Corporation’s Ethics and

Business Practices in Foreign Countries 388 SECTION B Bribes, Grease Payments, and “When in Rome …” 415

UNIT 7 Ethics, Business Operations, and Rights 423 SECTION A Workplace Safety 424 SECTION B Workplace Loyalty 439 SECTION C Workplace Diversity and Atmosphere 455 SECTION D Workplace Privacy and Personal Lives 461

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SECTION E Workplace Confrontation 471 SECTION F Workplace and the Environment 482

UNIT 8 Ethics and Products 491 SECTION A Advertising Content 492 SECTION B Product Safety 503 SECTION C Product Sales 527 SECTION D Products and Social Issues 543

UNIT 9 Ethics and Competition 547 SECTION A Covenants Not to Compete 548 SECTION B All’s Fair, or Is It? 558 SECTION C Intellectual Property and Ethics 565

The Ethical Common Denominator (ECD) Index: The Common Threads of Business Ethics 573

Alphabetical Index 585 Business Discipline Index 591 Product/Company/Individuals Index 601 Topic Index 639

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Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii

U N I T

1 Ethical Theory, Philosophical Foundations, Our Reasoning Flaws, and Types of Ethical Dilemmas

SECTION A Defining Ethics 2 Reading 1.1 You, Your Values, and a Credo 2 Reading 1.2 The Parable of the Sadhu: Pressure, Small Windows of Opportunity, and

Temptation 4 Reading 1.3 What Are Ethics? From Line-Cutting to Kant 9 Reading 1.4 The Types of Ethical Dilemmas: From Truth to Honesty

to Conflicts 17 Reading 1.5 On Rationalizing and Labeling: The Things We Do That Make Us

Uncomfortable, but We Do Them Anyway 23 Case 1.6 “I Was Just Following Orders”: The CIA, Interrogation, and the

Role of Legal Opinions 27 Reading 1.7 The Slippery Slope, the Blurred Lines, and How We Never Do Just

One Thing 30 Case 1.8 Hank Greenberg and AIG, and Steve Cohen and SAC Capital 31

SECTION B Resolving Ethical Dilemmas 33 Reading 1.9 Some Simple Tests for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas 33 Reading 1.10 Some Steps for Analyzing Ethical Dilemmas 38 Reading 1.11 On Plagiarism 39 Case 1.12 The Little Teacher Who Could: Piper, Kansas, and Term

Papers 40 Case 1.13 Dog Walkers and Scoopers 42 Case 1.14 Puffing Your Résumé 43 Case 1.15 Dad, the Actuary, and the Stats Class 46 Case 1.16 Wi-Fi Piggybacking 46 Case 1.17 Stuyvesant High School and the Cheating Culture of

Excellence 47 Case 1.18 Speeding: You Can’t Survive on the Road unless

You Do 48 Case 1.19 Hazing Drinking, and Campuses 50 Case 1.20 The Pack of Gum 51

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2 Solving Ethical Dilemmas and Personal Introspection

SECTION A Business and Ethics: How Do They Work Together? 54 Reading 2.1 What’s Different about Business Ethics? 54 Reading 2.2 The Ethics of Responsibility 55 Reading 2.3 Is Business Bluffing Ethical? 56

SECTION B What Gets in the Way of Ethical Decisions in Business? 65 Reading 2.4 How Leaders Lose Their Way: What Price Hubris? 65 Reading 2.5 Moral Relativism and the Either/or Conundrum 67 Reading 2.6 P = f(x) The Probability of an Ethical Outcome Is a Function of the Amount of

Money Involved: Pressure 68 Case 2.7 MF Global, Jon Corzine, and a Bankruptcy 69 Case 2.8 On Saying One Thing and Doing Another: Public Perception and Deception

Covering for the CEO 75

SECTION C Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Business 79 Reading 2.9 Framing Issues Carefully: A Structured Approach for Solving Ethical Dilemmas

and Trying Out Your Ethical Skills on Some Business Cases 79 Case 2.10 Galleon Hedge Fund: Expert Networks, Friendly Discussions or Insider

Trading? 80 Case 2.11 What Was Up with Wall Street? The Goldman Standard and Shades of

Gray 82 Case 2.12 Making Believe We Are at Work or Being Loyal: The Alibis of Technology 93 Case 2.13 Make-Believe Reality TV: Storage Wars and Reconstructed Home Sales 94 Case 2.14 Travel Expenses: A Chance for Extra Income 95 Case 2.15 Do Cheaters Prosper? 96 Case 2.16 The Home Repair Contractor Tempted By Customers and Contracts 96 Case 2.17 Penn State: Framing Ethical Issues 97

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3 Business, Stakeholders, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability

SECTION A Business and Society: The Tough Issues of Economics, Social Responsibility, and Business 110 Reading 3.1 The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits 110 Reading 3.2 A Look at Stakeholder Theory 115 Reading 3.3 Business with a Soul: A Reexamination of What Counts in Business

Ethics 118 Reading 3.4 Appeasing Stakeholders with Public Relations 121 Reading 3.5 Conscious Capitalism: Creating a New Paradigm for Business 122 Reading 3.6 Marjorie Kelly and the Divine Right of Capital 123 Reading 3.7 Schools of Thought on Social Responsibility 124

SECTION B Applying Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory 126 Case 3.8 Skittles, Trayvon Martin, and Social Responsibility 126 Case 3.9 Guns, Stock Prices, Safety, Liability, and Social Responsibility 127 Case 3.10 The Craigslist Connections: Facilitating Crime 133

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Case 3.11 Planned Parenthood Backlash at Companies and Charities 133 Reading 3.12 The Regulatory Cycle, Social Responsibility, Business Strategy, and

Equilibrium 135 Case 3.13 Fannie, Freddie, Wall Street, Main Street, and the Subprime Mortgage Market:

Of Moral Hazards 139 Case 3.14 Cruises, Comfort, and Costs 150 Case 3.15 Ice-T, the Body Count Album, and Shareholder Uprisings 156 Case 3.16 Athletes and Doping: Costs, Consequences, and Profits 162 Case 3.17 Back Treatments and Meningitis in an Under-the-Radar Industry 168

SECTION C Social Responsibility and Sustainability 170 Reading 3.18 The New Environmentalism 170 Case 3.19 GM, the Volt, and Halted Sales and Production 172 Case 3.20 Buying Local: The Safety Issues in Farmers’ Markets 173 Case 3.21 Biofuels and Food Shortages in Guatemala 174 Case 3.22 The Dictator’s Wife in Louboutin Shoes Featured in Vogue Magazine 174 Case 3.23 Herman Miller and Its Rain Forest Chairs 175

SECTION D Government as a Stakeholder 179 Case 3.24 Solyndra: Bankruptcy of Solar Resources 179 Case 3.25 Stanford University and Government Payment for Research 180 Case 3.26 Minority-Owned Businesses and Reality 183 Case 3.27 Prosecutorial Misconduct: Ends Justifying Means? 183

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4 Ethics and Company Culture

SECTION A Temptation at Work for Individual Gain and That Credo 190 Reading 4.1 The Moving Line 190 Reading 4.2 Not All Employees Are Equal When It Comes to Moral Development 191

SECTION B The Organizational Behavior Factors 194 Reading 4.3 Why Corporations Can’t Control Chicanery 194 Case 4.4 Swiping Oreos at Work: Is It a Big Deal? 202 Reading 4.5 The Effects of Compensation Systems: Incentives, Bonuses, Pay, and

Ethics 202 Case 4.6 A Primer on Accounting Issues and Ethics and Earnings Management 206 Case 4.7 Law School Application Consultants 216 Case 4.8 The Daiquiri Concession and Ferragamo Shoes and the County

Supervisors 217

SECTION C The Psychological and Behavior Factors 219 Reading 4.9 The Layers of Ethical Issues: Individual, Organization, Industry, and

Society 219 Case 4.10 Rogues: Bad Apples or Bad Barrel: Jett and Kidder, Leeson and Barings Bank,

Kerviel and Société General, the London Whale and Chase, Kweku Adoboli and UBS, and LIBOR Rates for Profit 228

Case 4.11 FINOVA and the Loan Write-Off 239 Case 4.12 Inflating SAT Scores for Rankings and Bonuses 244 Case 4.13 Hiding the Slip-Up on Oil Lease Accounting: Interior Motives 244

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SECTION D The Structural Factors: Governance, Example, and Leadership 246 Reading 4.14 Re: A Primer on Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank 246 Case 4.15 WorldCom: The Little Company That Couldn’t After All 250 Case 4.16 Bank of America: The Merrill Takeover, the Disclosures, and

the Board 267 Reading 4.17 Getting Information from Employees Who Know to Those Who Can

and Will Respond 269 Case 4.18 Westland/Hallmark Meat Packing Company and the Cattle Standers 272

SECTION E The Industry Practices and Legal Factors 274 Reading 4.19 The Subprime Saga: Bear Stearns, Lehman, Merrill, and CDOs 274 Case 4.20 Enron: The CFO, Conflicts, and Cooking the Books with Natural Gas and

Electricity 281 Case 4.21 Arthur Andersen: A Fallen Giant 295 Case 4.22 The Ethics of Walking Away 302

SECTION F The Fear-and-Silence Factors 303 Case 4.23 HealthSouth: The Scrushy Way 303 Case 4.24 Royal Dutch and the Reserves 311 Case 4.25 Dennis Kozlowski: Tyco and the $6,000 Shower Curtain 313 Case 4.26 Bausch & Lomb and Krispy Kreme: Channel Stuffing and

Cannibalism 323 Reading 4.27 A Primer on Whistleblowing 328 Case 4.28 Beech-Nut and the No-Apple-Juice Apple Juice 328 Case 4.29 NASA and the Space Shuttle Booster Rockets 334 Case 4.30 Diamond Walnuts and Troubled Growers 337 Case 4.31 New Era: If It Sounds Too Good to Be True, It Is Too Good to