People First!: Professional and Business Ethics without Ethics / Edition 1

by E. R. Klein

Overview

Through an innovative technique of making the process of the text more important than its thesis, Klein offers the reader the opportunity to take seriously the fact that it is time we try a new approach to the teaching and fostering of professional and business ethics, i.e., an approach that removes the pedantic minutia that is endemic to its scholarly study, allowing students and managers alike a chance to not only learn about ethics, but actually become ethicists themselves. People First!, with its pedagogical focus and eminently readable style, "walks" the reader (regardless of philosophical acumen) through specific hallmark arguments to one simple, fundamental, obvious, intuitive, and universal imperative: Put people first! Klein hopes that the process that is People First will be self-justifying, enabling not only the creation of more ethical business and professional leadership, but a new age of teaching professional and business ethics that will lead to generations of ethical practitioners in the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761824947
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	02/25/2003
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.36(w) x 8.28(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

E.R. Klein is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Part I: The Philosophy of Ethics: Introduction Chapter 4 Ethics: Common Problems; Relativism; Morality and Law Chapter 5 Theoretical Accounts: Utilitarianism; Kantianism; The Virtue of Ethics of Aristotle; Applied Practical Ethics; Commitment to Theory; Need for Application; The Text to Come Chapter 6 Part II: Professional Ethics: Introduction to Professional Ethics: Professional Ethics Defined; Professional Ethics; Professional Ethics Norms; Professional Ethics Redefined Chapter 7 Codes of Professional Ethics: Codes for Nurses; Codes for Architects; Codes for Professors; Universal Desiderata Chapter 8 The Ordinariness of Ethics: Not Broad Enough; Rationalization for Immoral Behavior; Professionals are Not Necessarily Ethicists Chapter 9 Part III: Business Ethics: Introduction to Business Ethics: Professional Ethics as Business Ethics; Business Ethics Defined; Business Ethics in Academia; Corporate Abuse Chapter 10 The Stakeholder Concept: Stakeholders vs. Shareholders; Two Possible Solutions; Stakeholders as Persons Chapter 11 Test Cases: H.B. Fuller; Firestone; Exxon; Tragedies in General Chapter 12 Enron: The Timeline; The Future Chapter 13 Part IV: Putting People First: Ethics Without Ethics: Kantianism and Respect for Persons; Respect for Persons Without Kant; Are Corporations Really Persons? Chapter 14 Oxymoron or Global Future?: Relativism Revisited; Global Economics; People First!; Conclusions Chapter 15 Index