Practical Business Ethics for the Busy Manager

By Carol M. Barnum and Saul Carliner

For courses in Business Ethics and business courses desiring a brief, readable supplement encouraging business ethics. Brief text shows students how to be ethical business people. Common sense, practical approach to doing good work--emphasizing the need to prepare in advance for ethical dilemmas. Helps improve behavior in the rushed, output-driven business environment. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130481092
• ISBN13: 9780130481092
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Well written FILOP process

This was assigned reading for a business ethics class. The book was well written, descriptive with lots of real-life examples. The author not only provided bad examples of companies (Enron, Worldcom) but good ones as well (Mary Kay, Rouse). My only criticism is some of the examples ended without any conclusion or point. I guess you are left to make up your own mind. The theme of the book is the FILOP process (Facts, Issues,...

A Great Book For People Who Want to Promote Positive Change

As a manager in the corporate world, I found this book extremely helpful in planning ethics training for my organization. This book is outstanding for managers, professors and employees who want to promote positive change. I found the "Moral Mentors" material to be especially useful. That material (in Chapter Five) is a perfect antidote to employees who may be tempted to feel victimized by poisonous corporate cultures...