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Solution Manual for Business Ethics Case Studies and Selected Readings, 9th Edition by Marianne M. J

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Business Ethics, 9e

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SOLUTION MANUAL FOR Business Ethics Case Studies and Selected Readings, 9th Edition

CONTENTS Preface and Using the Manual Teaching Tips and Suggestions Teaching Methodology Sample Syllabus UNIT ONE – ETHICAL THEORY, PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS, OUR REASONING FLAWS, AND TYPES OF ETHICAL DILEMMAS Section 1A: Reading 1.1 Reading 1.2 Reading 1.3 Reading 1.4 Reading 1.5 Case 1.6 Reading 1.7 Case 1.8 Section 1B: Reading 1.9 Reading 1.10 Reading 1.11 Case 1.12 Case 1.13 Case 1.14 Case 1.15 Case 1.16 Case 1.17 Case 1.18 Case 1.19 Case 1.20 Case 1.21

Defining Ethics You, Your Values, and a Credo What Did You Do in the Past Year That Bothered You? How That Question Can Change Lives and Cultures What Are Ethics? From Line-Cutting to Kant The Types of Ethical Dilemmas: From Truth to Honesty to Conflicts On Rationalizing and Labeling: The Things We Do That Make Us Uncomfortable, But We Do Them Anyway ―They Made Me Do It‖: Following Orders and Legalities: Volkswagen and the Fake Emissions Test The Slippery Slope, the Blurred Lines, and How We Never Do Just One Thing: The University of North Carolina and How Do I Know When an Ethical Lapse Begins? Blue Bell Ice Cream and Listeria: The Pressures of Success Resolving Ethical Dilemmas and Personal Introspection Some Simple Tests for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas Some Steps for Analyzing Ethical Dilemmas On Plagiarism The Little Teacher Who Could: Piper, Kansas, and Term Papers The Car Pool Lane: Defining Car Pool Puffing Your Résumé: Truth or Dare Dad, the Actuary, and the Stats Class Wi-Fi Piggybacking and the Tragedy of the Commons Cheating: Hows, Whys, and Whats and Do Cheaters Prosper? Culture of Excellence Speeding: Hows, Whys, and Whats Moving from School to Life: Do Cheaters Prosper? The Pack of Gum Getting Out from Under Student Loans: Legal? Ethical?

UNIT TWO – SOLVING ETHICAL DILEMMAS AND PERSONAL INTROSPECTION Section 2A: Reading 2.1 Reading 2.2 Reading 2.3 Section 2B:

Business and Ethics: How Do They Work Together? What‘s Different About Business Ethics? The Ethics of Responsibility Is Business Bluffing Ethical? What Gets in the Way of Ethical Decisions in Business?

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Reading 2.4 Reading 2.5 Reading 2.6

How Leaders Lose Their Way: The Bathsheba Syndrome and What Price Hubris? Moral Relativism and the Either/or Conundrum P = f(x) The Probability of an Ethical Outcome Is a Function of the Amount of Money Involved: Pressure BP and the Deepwater Horizon Explosion: Safety First Valeant: The Company with a New Pharmaceutical Model and Different Accounting

Case 2.7 Case 2.8 Section 2C: Reading 2.9 Case 2.10 Case 2.11 Case 2.12 Case 2.13

Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Business Framing Issues Carefully: A Structured Approach for Solving Ethical Dilemmas and Trying Out Your Ethical Skills on an Example What Was Up with Wall Street? The Goldman Standard and Shades of Gray Penn State: Framing Ethical Issues Deflategate and Spygate: The New England Patriots Damaging Reviews on the Internet: The Reality and the Harm

UNIT THREE – BUSINESS, STAKEHOLDERS, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND SUSTAINABILITY Section 3A:

Reading 3.1 Reading 3.2 Reading 3.3 Reading 3.4 Reading 3.5 Reading 3.6 Section 3B: Case 3.7 Case 3.8 Case 3.9 Case 3.10 Case 3.11 Case 3.12 Reading 3.13 Case 3.14 Case 3.15 Case 3.16 Case 3.17 Case 3.18 Case 3.19 Section 3C: Case 3.20 Case 3.21 Case 3.22 Section 3D: Case 3.23 Case 3.24 Case 3.25

Business and Society: The Tough Issues of Economics, Social Responsibility, and Business The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits A Look at Stakeholder Theory Business with a Soul: A Reexamination of What Counts in Business Ethics Appeasing Stakeholders with Public Relations Conscious Capitalism: Creating a New Paradigm for Business Marjorie Kelly and the Divine Right of Capital Applying Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory Turing Pharmaceutical and the 4,834% Price Increase on a Life-Saving Drug Walmart: The $15 Minimum Wage Chipotle: Buying Local and Health Risks Guns, Stock Prices, Safety, Liability, and Social Responsibility The Craigslist Connections: Facilitating Crime Planned Parenthood Backlash at Companies and Charities The Regulatory Cycle, Social Responsibility, Business Strategy, and Equilibrium Fannie, Freddie, Wall Street, Main Street, and the Subprime Mortgage Market: Of Moral Hazards Ice-T, the Body Count Album, and Shareholder Uprisings Athletes and Doping: Costs, Consequences, and Profits Back Treatments and Meningitis in an Under-the-Radar Industry CVS Pulls Cigarettes from Its Stores Ashley Madison: The Affair Website Social Responsibility and Sustainability Biofuels and Food Shortages in Guatemala The Dictator‘s Wife in Louboutin Shoes Featured in Vogue Magazine Herman Miller and Its Rain Forest Chairs Government as a Stakeholder Solyndra: Bankruptcy of Solar Resources Stanford University and Government Payment for Research Prosecutorial Misconduct: Ends Justifying Means?

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UNIT FOUR – ETHICS AND COMPANY CULTURE Section 4A: Reading 4.1 Reading 4.2 Section 4B: Reading 4.3 Case 4.4 Reading 4.5 Reading 4.6 Case 4.7 Case 4.8 Section 4C: Reading 4.9 Case 4.10

Case 4.11 Case 4.12 Case 4.13 Section 4D: Reading 4.14 Case 4.15 Case 4.16 Reading 4.17 Case 4.18 Section 4E: Reading 4.19 Case 4.20 Case 4.21 Case 4.22 Section 4F: Case 4.23 Case 4.24 Case 4.25 Case 4.26 Case 4.27 Case 4.28 Case 4.29 Case 4.30 Section 4G: Case 4.31

Temptation at Work for Individual Gain and That Credo The Moving Line Not All Employees Are Equal When It Comes to Ethical Development The Organizational Behavior Factors The Preparation for a Defining Ethical Moment Swiping Oreos at Work: Is It a Big Deal? The Effects of Compensation Systems: Incentives, Bonuses, Pay, and Ethics A Primer on Accounting Issues and Ethics and Earnings Management Law School Application Consultants Political Culture: Daiquiris, and Farragamo Shoes, and Officials The Psychological and Behavior Factors The Layers of Ethical Issues: Individual, Organization, Industry, and Society Rogues: Bad Apples or Bad Barrel: Jett and Kidder, Leeson and Barings Bank, Kerviel and Société Générale, the London Whale and Chase, Kweku Adoboli and UBS, and LIBOR Rates for Profit FINOVA and the Loan Write-Off Inflating SAT Scores for Rankings and Bonuses Hiding the Slip-Up on Oil Lease Accounting: Interior Motives The Structural Factors: Governance, Example, and Leadership Re: A Primer on Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank WorldCom: The Little Company That Couldn‘t After All The Upper Big Branch Mining Disaster, the CEO, and the Faxed Production Reports Getting Information from Employees Who Know to Those Who Can and Will Respond Westland/Hallmark Meat Packing Company and the Cattle Standers The Industry Practices and Legal Factors The Subprime Saga: Bear Stearns, Lehman, Merrill, and CDOs Enron: The CFO, Conflicts, and Cooking the Books with Natural Gas and Electricity Arthur Andersen: A Fallen Giant The Ethics of Walking Away The Fear-and-Silence Factors HealthSouth: The Scrushy Way Dennis Kozlowski: Tyco and the $6,000 Shower Curtain A Primer on Whistleblowing Beech-Nut and the No-Apple-Juice Apple Juice VA: The Patient Queues NASA and the Space Shuttle Booster Rockets Diamond Walnuts and Troubled Growers New Era: If It Sounds Too Good to Be True, It Is Too Good to Be True The Culture of Goodness Bernie Madoff: Just Stay Away from the Seventeenth Floor

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Adelphia: Good Works Via a Hand in the Till The Atlanta Public School System: Good Scores by Creative Teachers The NBA Referee and Gambling for Tots Giving and Spending the United Way The Baptist Foundation: Funds of the Faithful

UNIT FIVE – ETHICS AND CONTRACTS Section 5A: Case 5.1 Case 5.2 Case 5.3 Case 5.4 Case 5.5 Case 5.6 Section 5B: Case 5.7 Case 5.8 Case 5.9 Case 5.10 Case 5.11 Case 5.12 Case 5.13

Contract Negotiations: All Is Fair and Conflicting Interests Facebook and the Media Buys Subprime Auto Loans: Contracts with the Desperate The Governor and His Wife: Products Endorsement and a Rolex Subway: Is 11 Inches the Same as 12 Inches? Sears and High-Cost Auto Repairs Kardashian Tweets: Regulated Ads or Fun? Promises, Performance, and Reality Pensions Promises, Payments, and Bankruptcy: Companies, Cities, Towns, and States "I Only Used It Once": Returning Goods Government Contracts, Research, and Double-Dipping When Corporations Pull Promises Made to Government Intel and the Chips: When You Have Made a Mistake Red Cross and the Use of Funds The Nuns and Katy Perry: Is There a Property Sale?

UNIT SIX – ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Section 6A:

Reading 6.1 Case 6.2 Case 6.3 Case 6.4 Case 6.5 Case 6.6 Case 6.7 Case 6.8 Section 6B: Reading 6.9 Case 6.10 Case 6.11 Case 6.12 Case 6.13

Conflicts Between the Corporation’s Ethics and Business Practices in Foreign Countries Why an International Code of Ethics Would Be Good for Business Chiquita Banana and Mercenary Protection Pirates! The Bane of Transnational Shipping The Former Soviet Union: A Study of Three Companies and Values in Conflict Bangladesh, Sweatshops, Suicides, Nike, Apple, Foxconn, Apple, and Campus Boycotts Bhopal: When Safety Standards Differ Product Dumping Nestlé: Products That Don‘t Fit Cultures Bribes, Grease Payments, and “When in Rome …” A Primer on the FCPA FIFA: The Kick of Bribery Siemens and Bribery, Everywhere Walmart in Mexico GlaxoSmithKline in China

UNIT SEVEN – ETHICS, BUSINESS OPERATIONS, AND RIGHTS Section 7A:

Workplace Safety

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Reading 7.1 Case 7.2 Case 7.3 Section 7B: Case 7.4 Case 7.5 Case 7.6 Case 7.7 Case 7.8 Case 7.9 Case 7.10 Section 7C: Case 7.11 Case 7.12 Case 7.13 Case 7.14 Case 7.15 Case 7.16 Section 7D: Case 7.17 Case 7.18 Case 7.19 Case 7.20 Section 7E: Reading 7.21 Reading 7.22 Case 7.23 Case 7.24

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Two Sets of Books on Safety Trucker Logs, Sleep, and Safety Cintas and the Production Line Workplace Loyalty Aaron Feuerstein and Malden Mills JCPenney and Its Wealthy Buyer The Trading Desk, Perks, and ―Dwarf Tossing‖ The Analyst Who Needed a Preschool Edward Snowden and Civil Disobedience Boeing and the Recruiting of the Government Purchasing Agent Kodak, the Appraiser, and the Assessor: Lots of Backscratching on Valuation Workplace Diversity and Atmosphere English-Only Employer Policies Employer Tattoo and Piercing Policies Have You Been Convicted of a Felony? Office Romances On-the-Job Fetal Injuries Political Views in the Workplace Workplace Diversity and Personal Lives Julie Roehm: The Walmart Ad Exec with Expensive Tastes Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Employer Tracking Tweeting, Blogging, Chatting, and E-Mailing: Employer Control Jack Welch and the Harvard Interview Workplace Confrontation The Ethics of Confrontation The Ethics of Performance Evaluations Ann Hopkins and Price Waterhouse The Glowing Recommendation

UNIT EIGHT – ETHICS AND PRODUCTS Section 8A: Case 8.1 Case 8.2 Case 8.3 Section 8B: Reading 8.4 Case 8.5 Case 8.6 Case 8.7 Case 8.8 Case 8.9 Case 8.10 Case 8.11 Case 8.12

Advertising Content T-Mobile, Ads, and Contract Terms Eminem vs. Audi The Mayweather "Fight" and Ticket Holders Product Safety A Primer on Product Liability Peanut Corporation of America: Salmonella and Indicted Leaders Tylenol: The Swing in Product Safety Samsung Fire Phones Ford and GM: The Repeating Design and Sales Issues E. Coli, Jack-in-the-Box, and Cooking Temperatures The Tide Pods Buckyballs and Safety Energy Drinks and Workout Powders: Healthy or Risky?

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