Improve your understanding of key concepts covered in Business Ethics fifth edition by exploring these recommendations for useful websites.

 

Chapter 1 – Ethical Reasoning in Business

Ethics Updates: http://ethics.sandiego.edu

Ethics Updates is ‘dedicated to promoting the thoughtful discussion of difficult moral issues’. The site is managed by Lawrence Hinman and offers, among other things, discussions of different theoretical ethical positions, and applies them to contemporary ethical issues.

 

 

Chapter 2 – Dirty Hands

Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dirty-hands

Theoretical discussion of the moral and political significance of dirty hands.

 

 

Chapter 3 – Stakeholders

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI): www.globalreporting.org/network/organizational-stakeholders

The Organizational Stakeholder (OS) Program of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) convenes a network of more than 600 organisations from over sixty countries, committed to advancing sustainability reporting.

 

 

Chapter 5 – Advertising Ethics

Chris Moore, Ogilvy & Mather, ‘Ethics in Advertising’, (2004), Advertising Educational Foundation: www.aef.com/on_campus/classroom/speaker_pres/data/3001

The Advertising Educational Foundation, whose stated mission is ‘to enrich the understanding of advertising and its role in culture, society and the economy’ publishes case histories and ethical discussions. Its home page is at www.aef.com/index.html.

 

 

Action Fair Work Australia: www.fairwork.gov.au/resources/useful-links/pages/default.aspx

The website of Australia’s Fair Work Ombudsman, which includes information about antidiscrimination and equal opportunity throughout Australia.

 

 

Chapter 7 – Professional Ethics

Howard Gardner, ‘Reinventing Ethics’, New York Times, 23 September 2012: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/reinventing-ethics

While rejecting an easy relativism, this short article argues that the professions share a responsibility to create new spaces for the development of ethics in contemporary cultures that will draw from the legacies of the past to produce ethics relevant to the present.

 

 

Chapter 8 – The Environment

Ethics Updates: http://ethics.sandiego.edu

Ethics Updates, ‘dedicated to promoting the thoughtful discussion of difficult moral issues’. The site is managed by Lawrence Hinman and offers, among other things, discussions of different theoretical ethical positions, and applies them to contemporary ethical issues, including environmental ethics.

 

 

Chapter 9 – Whistleblowing

Government Accountability Project: www.whistleblower.org

The Government Accountability Project is an international whistleblower website with a fairly strong bias toward US cases and issues. It takes a similar line to this chapter in its understanding of whistleblowing.

 

 

Chapter 10 – Codes of Ethics and Institutional Ethics

Pfizer’s ‘Blue Book’: www.pfizer.com/files/investors/corporate/blue_book_english.pdf

For a highly prescriptive code, visit this website to see Pfizer’s ‘Blue Book’ or ‘Business Conduct and Ethics’.

 

 

Chapter 11 – International Business Ethics

Transparency International: www.transparency.org

This website contains the Corruption Perceptions Index, Bribe Payers Index, and information on other instruments and organisational activities directed against global corruption.