Phil 112: “Ethics in the workplace” Daily: 10 – 11 am.

Business Ethics Links:

Sources:  Kavin Gibson (2006). “Business Ethics, People, Profit, and the Planet.”

McGraw-Hill Higher Education; www.mhhe.com/gibson1

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072998725;

 

“The Market System and Its Critics.”

1. Rogene Buchholz and Sandra Rosenthal, Elements of the Market System

     About Sandra Rosenthal -- http://cas.loyno.edu/philosophy/bios/sRosenthal.html

2. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

       Adam Smith site by Oldrich Kyn -- http://econc10.bu.edu/

Millenium Math Project Site by Helen Joyce --http://plus.maths.org/issue14/features/smith/

       Wealth of Nations (Text and Index) -http://www.adamsmith.org/smith/won-index.htm

3. Ayn Rand, Capitalism

  A site dedicated to promoting and furthering Ayn Rand’s work and ideas – www.aynrand.org

  A site exploring capitalism from Rand’s point of view – www.capitalism.org

 A site dedicated to debunking Ayn Rand and her ideas - http://world.std.com/%7emhuben/libindex.html

 

4. John Rawls, An Egalitarian Theory of Justice

     About John Rawls -- http://www.policylibrary.com/rawls/index.htm

5. Carol Cohen, Socialist Democracy

  About Carl Cohen -- http://www.umich.edu/%7Enewsinfo/MT/97/Fal97/mt10f97.html

 The Socialism website -- http://home.vicnet.net.au/%7edmcm/

   About Sidney Webb -- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUwebbS.htm

6. Trudy Govier, The Right to Eat and the Duty to Work

    About Trudy Govier -- http://members.shaw.ca/govier/

      U.S. Department of Labor Welfare to Work -- http://www.doleta.gov/wtw/

      The Public Welfare Foundation -- http://www.publicwelfare.org/index.asp

7. Peter Ulrich and Ulrich Thielemann, How Do Mangers Think about Market Economies and Morality?

      About Peter Ulrich --      http://www.iwe.unisg.ch/org/iwe/web.nsf/wwwPubPersonenE/1DE47243330654E9C12569A1004F8A8B

 

The Theoretical Backdrop of Business Ethics

1.     Manuel Velasquez, Claire Andre, Thomas Shanks, and Michael Meyer
        Thinking Ethically: A Framework for Moral Decision Making.

Details accessed through the main Santa Clara Ethics Website http://www.scu.edu/Ethics/

2.     Donelson Forsyth, Judging the Morality of Business Practice

   Donelson Forsyth Homepage: http://www.has.vcu.edu/psy/faculty/fors/fors.html

     Group Dynamics Page: http://www.has.vcu.edu/group/gdynamic.htm

3.    John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism

       Utilitarianism website; http://www.utilitarian.net/jsmill/

4.    Immanuel Kant: The Ethics of Duty

        Main Kant Website: http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/%7eppp/K1texts.html

        Ethics Updates Homepage: http://ethics.acusd.edu/

5.    Aristotle: The Ethics of Virtue

            Encyclopedia of Philosophy Page: http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aristotl.htm

            Electronic Text Links: http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Aristotle.html

            Boy Scout’s Oath, Law, and Motto: http://www.scouting.org/factsheets/02-503a.html

6.    Daryl Koehn: A Role for Virtue Ethics in the Analysis of Business Practice

             Daryl Koehn Homepage: http://www.stthom.edu/cbes/profile.html

7.    Stephen Covey, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

            Stephen Covey website: http://www.stephencovey.com/

8.    James Nickel: Economic Rights

         James Nickel Homepage: http://www.law.asu.edu/HomePages/Nickel/

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966:  http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_cescr.htm

            United Nations Declaration of Human Rights: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

Interview with Professor Nickel on Human Rights: http://ethics.acusd.edu/video/Interviews/Nickel/

     Eleanor Roosevelt on Human Rights: http://udhr.org/history/Biographies/bioer.htm

 Links to Sweatshop Issues:

“Confessions of a Sweatshop Inspector”:  http://www.monitor.net/monitor/0108a/sweatshopinspect.html

 “Top Sites—Sweatshops”:

http://www.top--sites.net/cgi.cfm/Top/News/Current_Events/Business_and_Economy/Employment_and_Income/Sweatshops

         Sweatshop Watch: http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/

         National Labor Committee: http://www.nlcnet.org/

        Global Exchange: http://www.globalexchange.org/

        Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org/

        Co-Op America: http://www.sweatshops.org/

       Maquila Solidarity Network: http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/

American Apparel Manufacturers Association: http://www.americanapparel.org/

California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement:  http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/tipp4.htm#4

            Links to Multinational Issues

                        The Global Sullivan Principles: http://www.thegsp.org/

                        Federal Food and Drug Administration: http://www.fda.gov/

                        Occupational Safety and Health Administration: http://www.osha.gov/

9.    Jean Grimshaw: The Idea of a Female Ethic

            Feminist Ethics Links: http://www.feministethics.ca/

10.    Jeanne Liedtka: Feminist Morality and Competitive Reality

            Jeanne Liedtka Homepage: http://www.darden.edu/faculty/Liedtka.htm

  Merck River Blindness Case:

                         BBC Report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/health/2255180.stm

Pharmaceutical Manufacturer’s Page: http://www.ifpma.org/Health/other_infect/health_river.aspx

                        United Nations Organization Page: http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol17no1/171heal1.htm

Messick and Bazerman:

  Max Bazerman Site: http://dor.hbs.edu/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=bio&facEmId=mbazerman

David Messick Site: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/Faculty/bio/messickd.htm

11.    Claudia Mills: How Good a Person do I have to be?

Claudia Mills’ Website: http://spot.colorado.edu/%7ecmills/

12.    Laura Nash: Ethics without the Sermon

About Laura Nash - http://pine.hbs.edu/external/facNameSearchSubmit.do

 

 

Role Morality and Personal Responsibility

1.     Joel Feinberg, Collective Responsibility

            About Joel Feinberg: http://web.arizona.edu/~phil/feinberg.htm

Feinberg Bibliography: http://www.uta.edu/philosophy/faculty/burgess-jackson/Feinberg.htm

2.    John D. Bishop, The Moral Responsibility of Corporate Executives for Disasters:

            Contact address for John Bishop: http://www.trentu.ca/

3.    Peter French, Workers as Agents and Corporate Responsibility

            About Peter French: http://www.asu.edu/clas/philosophy/Faculty_Bio/p_french.htm

Paris Crash Web Link: http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Tech/Aviation/Disasters/74-03-03(THY).asp

Door Latch Problem Explained:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=www.saunalahti.fi/ility/ind2.gif&imgrefurl= 

http://www.saunalahti.fi/ility/SneakAnalysis.html&h=236&w=373&sz=3&tbnid=_aYAFjh2TBoJ:&tbnh=74&tbnw=116&prev=/images?q=turkish+dc+10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8

4.    Kevin Gibson, Role Morality and Professional Morality

            About Kevin Gibson: http://www.marquette.edu/phil/gibsonk

5.     Lee Iacocca, My View on the Pinto Affair

            Lee Iacocca http://www.marquette.edu/bizethics/NewSilverTemplate.htm

            Lee Iacocca Institute: http://www.iacocca-lehigh.org/

 Mother Jones Article: http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1977/09/dowie.html

Center for Auto Safety Article on Pinto Fires http://www.autosafety.org/article.php?scid=96&did=522

History Channel Audio Clip on Criminal Trial for the Pinto http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_465.html

 

 “Reclaim Democracy” Page on the Pinto:             http://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_accountability/ford_firestone_manslaughter.html

 

 

Conflicts Between Individual and Corporate Morality

1.    Richard Nielson, Changing Unethical Organizational Behavior

                 Richard Nielson’s Homepage: http://www2.bc.edu/%7Enielsenr/

                About Paul Tillich: http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/tillich.html

                National Whistleblowers Site: http://www.whistleblowers.org/

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission: http://www.eeoc.gov/

 

2.    Michael Davis, Paradoxes of Whistleblowing

About Michael Davis: http://www.iit.edu/departments/humanities/faculty/davis/

 

3.    Whistleblowers: Time’s Persons of the Year 2002:

      http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2002/

 

Sharron Watkins Letter to Ken Lay: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/pdf/layletter020115.pdf

Sherron Watkins Testimony to Congress:http://www.apfn.org/enron/watkins2.htm

 

4.    Leonard Baynes, Just Pucker and Blow?

About Leonard Baynes: http://new.stjohns.edu/academics/graduate/law/faculty/Baynes

 

5.    The Sarbanes-Oxley Act

 

American Institute of Certified Public Accounts Summary: http://www.aicpa.org/info/sarbanes_oxley_summary.htm

University of Cincinnati College of Law Full Text PDF: http://www.law.uc.edu/CCL/SOact/toc.html

 

6.    The Challenger Explosion

      Federation of American Scientists: http://www.fas.org/spp/51L.html

Audio and Video of Challenger Explosion: http://www.spacetoday.org/SpcShtls/ChallengerExplosion1986.html

·          Spaceline Resources on the Challenger: http://www.spaceline.org/challenger.html

·          Rogers Commission Report: http://www.spaceline.org/challenger.html#4

Haisler and Throop’s Analysis: http://www.me.utexas.edu/~me179/topics/lessons/case4.html

Case Western Reserve Site: http://onlineethics.org/moral/boisjoly/RB-intro.html

President Reagan’s Speech: http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/challenger.asp

Centennial of Flight Site: http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/SPACEFLIGHT/challenger/SP26.htm

Roger’s Commission Report http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/rogers-commission/table-of-contents.html

 

Case Western Page on Roger Boisjoly and the Challenger Disaster: http://www.onlineethics.org/moral/boisjoly/RB-intro.html

7.    Enron Resources

Citizenworks Financial Scandals Page: http://www.citizenworks.org/enron/corp-scandal.php

Enron homepage: http://www.enron.com/corp/

Houston Chronicle on Enron: http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/01/enron/

  Earth Renewal Page: http://earthrenewal.org/enron_scandal.htm

Inside Look Page: http://www.swlearning.com/accounting/insidelook/february/020602_scandal.html

CNN Page: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/enron/

Commonwealth Club Page: http://www.commonwealthclub.org/enron.html

Leslie Feinberg Page: http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/cpa/news/Enron.htm

CNN Video of Arthur Andersen CEO comments on Enron  http://money.cnn.com/2002/01/17/news/v_andersen_ceo/

The South Sea Bubble: http://www.dal.ca/%7Edmcneil/sketch.html

PBS Frontline link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/regulation/

Western Illinois University Enron History and Links http://www.wiu.edu/users/wat100/enron/enron.htm

The Dhabol Power Plant in India: http://www.monitor.net/monitor/0202a/enrontimeline.html

 

Encouraging Morality in Business

1.    Patrick Murphy, Creating ethical corporate structures:

About Patrick Murphy: http://www.business.nd.edu/Faculty/faculty_bio_page.cfm?who=pmurphy1

2.    Dove Izraeli and Mark Schwartz, What can we learn from the U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines for organizational ethics?

Federal Government Sentencing Guidelines http://www.ussc.gov/orgguide.HTM

3.    Roger Leeds, Breach of Trust: Leadership in a market economy

·          About Roger Leeds: http://apps.sais-jhu.edu/faculty_bios/faculty_bio1.php?ID=43

·          Levi Strauss & Co. Values and Vision Page: http://www.levistrauss.com/about/vision/

4.    The Sarbanes-Oxley Act

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Summary http://www.aicpa.org/info/sarbanes_oxley_summary.htm

University of Cincinnati College of Law Full Text in PDF http://www.law.uc.edu/CCL/SOact/toc.html

Transparency International Page: http://www.transparency.org/

 

5.    Codes of Conduct:

Dow Corning Vision and Values Statement http://www.dowcorning.com/content/about/aboutmedia/our_vision_and_values_page.asp

Johnson and Johnson Homepage: http://www.jnj.com/index.jsp

IBM Site and Letter on Corporate Business Page:  http://www1.ibm.com/partnerworld/pwhome.nsf/weblook/memctr_guide_chap1.html

Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan Chase) World-Wide Business Practice  http://www.chemicalbankmi.com/cfc/home.nsf/public/about_chemical.htm#Local

 

Employee Issues

1.    Lynn Sharp Paine, Work and Family—Should Parents Feel Guilty?

            About Lynn Sharp Paine: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/faculty.jhtml?t=lpaine

2.     Ian Maitland, Rights in the Workplace

·          About Ian Maitland: http://www.csom.umn.edu/Page2075.aspx?type=faculty&eid=147102977

·          Robert Nozik Policy Website: http://www.policylibrary.com/nozick/

·          Ayn Rand Institute : http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer

 

3.    Myrtle Bell, Mary McLaughlin, and Jennifer Sequeria, Discrimination and Harassment

·          About Myrtle Bell: http://management.uta.edu/Dr.Bell/main.htm

·          About Mary McLaughlin: http://www.smeal.psu.edu/

·          Equal Employment Opportunities Commission: http://www.eeoc.gov/index.html

Sexual Harassment Defined: http://humanresources.about.com/library/glossary/bldefsexhar.htm

·          Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act: http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/vii.html

Cornell University ILR School Site:             http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/keyWorkplaceDocuments/government/federal/Glassceilingreport.html

·          Hooters Restaurant Site: http://www.hooters.com/company/about_hooters/

·          CBS Report on alleged discrimination by Abercrombie and Fitch:

            http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/05/60minutes/main587099.shtml

 

4.     D.W. Haslett, Workplace Discrimination, Good Cause, and Color Blindness

·          D.W. Haslett, Contact information, https://chico.nss.udel.edu/PeopleSearch/staff.jsp?id=AAAQGKAAzAAAAmqAAB

5.     Meg Bond and Jean Pyle, Diversity Dilemmas at Work

·          About Meg Bond: http://www.marquette.edu/bizethics/MegBond.htm

·          About : Jean Pyle: http://www.uml.edu/Dept/RESD/pyle.htm

University of Maryland Diversity Resources Page: http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Diversity/

Department of the Interior Diversity in the Workplace Site http://www.doi.gov/diversity/workforce_diversity.html

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Homepage http://www.eeoc.gov/

Carl Guterrez-Jones UCSB Site: http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/

DiversityWeb.Org Site—Resources for Higher Education  http://www.diversityweb.org/

Susan E. Vega Garcia Personal Page with Links http://www.public.iastate.edu/%7Esavega/divweb2.htm

Society for Human Resource Management Diversity: http://www.shrm.org/diversity/

 

6.    Michael Cranford, Drug Testing and the Right to Privacy

Drug and Alcohol Testing Industry Page: http://www.datia.org/

American Management Association Employee Bill of Rights http://www.amanet.org/books/catalog/0814471498_billofrights.htm

U.S. Government Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: http://workplace.samhsa.gov/

Drug Free Workplace Act of 1988 (U.S. Department of Labor) http://www.dol.gov/elaws/asp/drugfree/screen4.htm

Pilot Medical Solutions Page: http://www.leftseat.com/AME/health4pilots/default.htm

Jolt Cola Webpage: http://www.wetplanet.com/productinfo.html

 

7.    Affirmative Action:

            EEOC Page: http://www.eeoc.gov/

University of Colorado Affirmative Action Links: http://www-libraries.colorado.edu/ps/gov/us/affact.htm

Washington Post Report on Affirmative Action (1998) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/affirm/affirm.htm

American Civil Rights Initiative: http://www.acri.org/209/

Pacific Legal Foundation—Prop. 209 Supporters Page http://www.pacificlegal.org/list_Publications.asp

 

Business and Consumers

1.    Claudia Mills and Douglas MacLean, Risk Analysis and the Value of Life

            About Claudia Mills: http://spot.colorado.edu/%7Ecmills/

            About Douglas MacLean: http://www.unc.edu/depts/phildept/maclean.html

            Consumer Product Safety Commission: http://www.cpsc.gov/

            National Highway Traffic Safety Commission: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/

            Environmental Protection Agency: http://www.epa.gov/

            Occupational Safety and Health Administration: http://www.osha.gov/

            National Safety Council: http://www.nsc.org/index.htm

            Cosh Network: http://www.coshnetwork.org/Background%20Info.htm

2.     James Ebejer and Michael Morden, Paternalism in the Marketplace: Should a Salesman Be his Buyer’s Keeper?

“Essential Action” Page and Links on the FDA and commercial speech http://www.essentialaction.org/commercialspeech/

            Markkula Center (Santa Clara) page on Paternalism: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v4n2/owngood.html

            Morris County (NJ) Library Page and Links on Consumers Rights: http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/caveat.html

“How Stuff Works” page on Sales Techniques:http://money.howstuffworks.com/sales-technique.htm/printable

            Federal Trading Commission Page: http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/consumer.htm

            Federal Food and Drug Administration Page:http://www.fda.gov/

Facts on the Nutritional Panel of Food Products: http://www.fda.gov/opacom/backgrounders/foodlabel/newlabel.html

            Center for Science in the Public Interests Page:http://www.cspinet.org/

            Friends of the Earth Page: http://www.foe.org/

3.     Janice Kang Choi, Barbie Banished from the Small Screen

            About Janice Kang Choi: http://www.stblaw.com/bios/JChoi.htm

Swedish Institute Page to Ban Advertising to Small Children http://www.sweden.se/templates/Article____3143.asp

            Responsible Advertising.org: http://www.responsible-advertising.org/

UNESCO Courier Article “Temptation Free Television for Children” http://www.unesco.org/courier/2001_09/uk/medias.htm

Media Awareness Network (Canada) Page on children and advertising http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/parents/marketing/issues_kids_marketing.cfm

            First Impressions Media Page (free sample goods for school children) http://www.fim.uk.com/who.html

 “Schools with a Slant” NYTimes article, 8/21/1999 http://www.utexas.edu/courses/hilde/Phl_325c/antienvironmentaled.html

            Channel 1 Homepage: http://www.channelone.com/

            JazzyMedia Homepage: http://www.jazzymedia.com/

            Campaign for State Education (UK) page on Business and Education: http://www.casenet.org.uk/edubusiness/sponsor.html

            Public Television “Don’t Buy It” sit for Children: http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/

4.     Larry Masek, Doctrine of Double Effect, Deadly Drugs, and Business Ethics

            About Larry Masek: http://www.ohiodominican.edu/faculty/masek.shtml

“Asset Protection” protection page on obesity lawsuits against fast food providers:  http://www.easyassetprotection.com/4/obesity-lawsuit.html

            Catholic Doctor Magazine on DDE: http://www.catholicdoctors.org.uk/CMQ/Nov_2003/moral_absolutes_double_effect.htm

 

5.     Metta Winter, Consumer Protection or Overprotection? (interview with Alan Mathios)

            About Alan Mathios: http://www.human.cornell.edu/faculty/facultybio.cfm?netid=adm5&facs=1

6.     Valerie Hans, Business on Trial

            About Valerie Hans: http://www.udel.edu/soc/vhans/

Cornell Site on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/

            University of Missouri, Kansas site on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/triangle/trianglefire.html

            University of Missouri, Kansas links

            http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/triangle/trianglelinks.htm

            “History Buff” account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory http://www.historybuff.com/library/refshirtwaist.html

            Lower Hudson Regional Informational Center Account and Links: http://www2.lhric.org/wh/wh4.html

            Hamlet, North Carolina 1991 Chicken Factory Fire: http://www.fedlock.com/public_relations/Still_Burning.htm

            Department of Labor Workers Compensation Site: http://www.dol.gov/esa/owcp_org.htm

            Workers Compensation Site and Links (Sponsored Page) http://www.workerscompensation.com/

7.    Environmental Links:

            Best Environmental Directories Page: http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/cds.html

            Center for Environmental Philosophy Page: http://www.cep.unt.edu/

            EcoWeb: http://www.ecoweb.org/do/Home

            Environmental Defense Fund :http://www.environmentaldefense.org/home.cfm

Factory Farming Page :

Grace Factory Farm Project: http://www.factoryfarm.org/

                    Sierra Club on Factory Farms:  http://www.sierraclub.org/factoryfarms/

             VegCom Factory Farm Photo Gallery http://www.factoryfarming.com/gallery.htm

VegCom Factory Farm Video http://www.factoryfarming.com/gallery/photos_video.htm

Western Organization of Resource Councils: http://www.worc.org/issues/factfarms.html

                    Animal Rights Canada: http://www.animalrightscanada.com/factoryfarms/

                    Consumer’s Union: http://www.consumersunion.org/food/nrdcfactsw1298.htm

                    Friends of the Earth Homepage: http://www.foe.org/

                    Gaia Hypothesis: http://www.oceansonline.com/gaiaho.htm

                    Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/

                    The Millennium Institute: http://www.millenniuminstitute.net/

                    National Audobon Society: http://www.audubon.org/

                    National Resources Defense Council : http://www.nrdc.org/

                    Nature Conservancy: http://nature.org/

                    Public Interest Research Group (US) http://www.uspirg.org/

                    Rainforest Action Network: http://www.ran.org/

                    Sierra Club: http://www.sierraclub.org/

                    Sustainability Page: http://www.sustainability.com/home.asp

                    United Nations Environment Programme: http://www.unep.org/

                    World Resources Institute: http://www.wri.org/

                    World Wide Fund: http://www.worldwildlife.org/

 

Business and Community

1.    Jamie Snider, Ronald Paul Hill, and Diane Martin , Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21 st Century: A View from        the most Successful Firms

            About Ronald Paul Hill: http://www.stpt.usf.edu/cob/index.htm

            About Diane Martin: http://www.up.edu/up_sub.asp?ctnt=256&mnu=40&chl=50&lvl=2&type=fac&grp=com

            Forbes Magazine top 50 US Firms: http://www.forbes.com/2004/03/24/04f2000land.html

Forbes Magazine top International Firms (by revenue)               http://www.forbes.com/lists/results.jhtml?passListId=17&passYear=2003&passListType=Company&searchParameter1=1Num||NotNull&searchParameter2=&resultsStart=1&resultsHowMany=25&resultsSortProperties=-numberfield2,+numberfield1&resultsSortCategoryName=

            J.P. Morgan Chase Corporate Responsibility Page:  http://www.jpmorganchase.com/cm/cs?pagename=Chase/Href&urlname=jpmc/community

            Coco-Cola India Page: http://www.coca-colaindia.com/eko/eko_introduction.html

Marubeni Environmental Page: http://www.marubeni.com/company/environ/envpolicy.html

            Fujitsu Page: http://pr.fujitsu.com/en/profile/profile2.html

            Home Depot Page: http://www.oldham-usa.com/LinkHO384.htm

            UBS Homepage: http://www.ubs.com/

            Pepsi Minority and Women Business Program Page:

            http://www.pepsico.com/mwbe/01_01.html

            Phillips Petroleum Health, Environment, and Safety Page:

            http://www.phillips66.com/hes98/main/policy-policy-main.htm

            UPS Code of Conduct Page: http://www.shareholder.com/ups/corpgov.cfm?corpgov=conduct

            Credit Suisse Shareholder Page:http://www.credit-suisse.com/en/governance/shareholders.html

            Duke Energy Community Page: http://www.duke-energy.com/company/community/

            United Technologies Page: http://www.uk.utc.com/

            Fortis Social Responsibility Page: http://www.fortis.com/

            Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Page: http://www.bms.com/sr/philanthropy/data/introx.html

 

2.    Myrna Wulfson, Ethics of Corporate Responsibility and Philanthropic Ventures

            About Myrna Wulfson: http://www.sunyrockland.edu/business/faculty.html#Hano

            United Way Page: http://national.unitedway.org/\

            Carnegie Foundation: http://www.gmunccd.org/FIELD/Foundations/Carnegie/profiles.htm

            Microsoft Corporate Citizens Site: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/

            Gates Millennium Scholarship Page: http://www.gmsp.org/

            McDonald’s Community Page: http://www.mcdonalds.com/usa/good/community.html

            Boy Scouts of America: http://www.scouting.org/

            BSA Discrimination Case: http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-699.ZS.html

            Pablo Eisenberg Essay on Corruption Allegations in the United Way http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/pablo/ChroniclePhilanthropy_Buckstops_021017.htm

 

3.    David Buchholz, Toledo: Failing to Deliver: http://www.cfed.org/

            About David Buchholz: http://www.cfed.org/about.m?id=23#178

            Ohio Enterprise Zone: http://www.odod.state.oh.us/edd/ez/

            ‘Zoned Out’ Report : http://www.policymattersohio.org/enterprise_zones.htm

 

“Doing Business Abroad”

1.     Jack Kaikati et al., The Price of International Business Morality: Twenty Years Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

            About Jack Kaikati - http://www.siue.edu/%7Ejkaikat/

2.    Thomas Donaldson, Values in Tension: Ethics Away From Home

            About Thomas Donaldson - http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/donaldst.html

3.    Richard De George , Ethical Dilemmas for the Multinational Enterprise: A Philosophical Overview

            About Richard De George - http://www.ku.edu/%7Ephilos/faculty/degeorge.html

4.    Patricia Werhane , The Moral Responsibility of Multinational Corporations to be Socially Responsible

            About Patricia Werhane - http://www.darden.virginia.edu/faculty/werhane.htm

5.    The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and related legislation:

            The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act – Department of Justice Page

            http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa.html

            The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Anti-Bribery provisions

            http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa/dojdocb.htm

Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report to Congress on the FCPA and Amendments  http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/Crsfcpa.htm#top

            OECD Convention Against Bribery (1997) http://www.oecd.org/about/0,2337,en_2649_34855_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

            OAS Inter-American Convention Against Corruption (1996) http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/Treaties/b-58.html

            Northrop Grumman page self-test on the FCPA (pdf file) http://ethics.es.northropgrumman.com/Documents/FCPA.pdf

 

6.    Topics cited in the readings:

            Donaldson:

                    SS United States Page http://www.ss-united-states.com/

                    Johnson & Johnson page http://www.jnj.com/index.jsp

                    Motorola Page http://www.motorola.com/content/0,,75-107,00.html

                    Texas Instruments Page http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/citizen/ethics/brochure/commitment.shtml

        Lockheed Martin Page http://www.itcilo.it/actrav/actrav-english/telearn/global/ilo/code/lockheed.htm

                    Transparency International Home Page http://www.transparency.org/

            De George/Werhane

                    BP Oil Page http://www.bp.com/home.do

                    Eli Lilly Corporation (Indiana) http://www.lilly.com/about/highlights.html

The Global Sullivan Principles http://www.thesullivanfoundation.org/gsp/default.asp

                    About Leon Sullivan http://www.revleonsullivan.org/

                    Goodmoney List of Codes and Principles for Multi-National Companies

                    http://www.goodmoney.com/directry_codes.htm

                    Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Homepage  http://www.fda.gov/

                    Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility Code Comparison

                    http://www.web.net/%7Etccr/benchmarks/rsp-GSP.htm

                    Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) http://www.osha.gov/

Public Information Research page on American corporate involvement in Chile in the 1970s  http://www.namebase.org/chile.html

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“The Ethics of Globalization”

1.     Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree

About Thomas Friedman --http://www.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/thomaslfriedman/

2.     Labor Standards in the Global Economy: Issues for Investors

            About Pietra Rivoli -- http://www.msb.edu/faculty/rivolip/

3.     Peter Singer, One World: The Ethics of Globalization

            Peter Singer homepage -- http://www.princeton.edu/~psinger/

            About Peter Singer, self portrait on Utiliatarian.net -- http://www.petersingerlinks.com/self.htm

4.     Globalization Links and Resources

            Community of Democracies http://www.ccd21.org/

            European Union http://europa.eu.int/index_ns_en.htm

Global Exchange on economic globalization http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/index.html

            Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility site http://www.iccr.org/

            Institutional Investor page on 2003 proxy voting http://www.institutionalshareowner.com/article.mpl?sfArticleId=1297

            Organization of African Unity http://www.itcilo.it/english/actrav/telearn/global/ilo/law/oau.htm

            Polaris Institute ("citizen movement in an ages of corporate globalization")

 http://www.polarisinstitute.org/

            World Trade Organization: http://www.wto.org/

 

“Business and the Environment.”

1.    William F. Baxter , People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution

            Thinkquest site on Penguins

            http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0214752/

 

2.    John Elkington, Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line

 

About John Elkington – Sustain Ability site biography http://www.sustainability.com/about/profile.asp?id=7

            SustainAbility site http://www.sustainability.com/index.asp

 

United Nations Agencies

United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/

2002 Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/

UN System-wide Earthwatch http://earthwatch.unep.net/sdev/index.php

International Standards Organization http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage

             Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (U.K): http://www.emas.org.uk/

Texas Lawyer Report on T & N and asbestos claims by Susan Borreson posted on Attorney Shepard Hoffman site http://mesotheliomainfo.com/mesothelioma-news11.htm

Report on the Krupp Thyssen Takeover by the European Industrial Relations Observatory http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/1997/04/feature/de9704207f.html

            Krupp and Thyssen homepage  http://www.thyssenkrupp.com/index.html?lang=eng&id=investor/fragen-konzern.html

            Karoshi - Death from overwork (Report from Job Stress Network) http://www.workhealth.org/whatsnew/lpkarosh.html

Volvo site declaring the environment as a Core Value www.volvo.com/group/global/en-gb

            Skandia - Social Responsibility page http://www.skandia.com/en/sustainability/socialresponsibility.shtml

             World Business Council on Sustainable Development             http://www.wbcsd.org/templates/TemplateWBCSD5/layout.asp?type=p&MenuId=MQ&doOpen=1&ClickMenu=LeftMenu

 

3.    Mark Sagoff , At the Monument to General Meade Gettysburg

About Mark Sagoff - http://www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/sagoffm.html

Link to revised version of Sagoff's essay:  http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=052154596x

            National Park Service Gettysburg site: http://www.nps.gov/gett/

 

4.    Jeremy Rifkin, Sacrifice to Slaughter 

About Jeremy Rifkin – Foundations on Economic Trends site http://www.foet.org/JeremyRifkin.htm

 

5.    Eric Katz, Defending the Use of Animals by Business: Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics

About Eric Katz – New Jersey Institute of Technology site http://www.njit.edu/v2/Directory/Academic/HUM/Faculty/pictures/katz.html

 

6.    R. Edward Freeman, Jessica Pierce, and Richard Dodd, Shades of Green

            About R. Edward Freeman - http://www.darden.edu/faculty/freeman.htm

             Sustainable Business com: http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/

            3M "Pollution Prevention Pays" http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/_s.155/115848

Baxter Healthcare "Sustainability" http://www.baxter.com/about_baxter/sustainability/

      

Global warming

Environmental Protection Agency Site http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html

Global Warming .org sponsored by the non-partisan Cooler Heads coalition  http://www.globalwarming.org/

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration FAQs on Global Warming http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html

Skepticism.net  - hosted by Brian Carnell. Articles and links questioning the nature and predictability of  global warming http://www.skepticism.net/faq/environment/global_warming/

National Academies site "A Closer Look at Global Warming"                     http://www4.nationalacademies.org/onpi/webextra.nsf/web/climate?OpenDocument

 

7.    Environmental Sites:

Best Environmental Directories - Links http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/cds.html

Center for Environmental Philosophy - Links http://www.cep.unt.edu/

Ecoweb: http://www.ecoweb.org/do/Home

Environmental Defense Fund http://www.environmentaldefense.org/home.cfm

Consumer's Union http://www.consumersunion.org/food/nrdcfactsw1298.htm

Friends of the Earth Home Page: http://www.foe.org/

Gaia Hypothesis: http://www.oceansonline.com/gaiaho.htm

Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/

National Audobon Society: http://www.audubon.org/

Natural Resources Defense Council: http://www.nrdc.org/

Nature Conservancy: http://www.nature.org/

Public Interest Research Group (U.S): http://www.uspirg.org/

Rainforest Action Network: http://www.ran.org/

Sierra Club: www.sierraclub.org

Sustainability Page: http://www.sustainability.com/

United Nations Environment Programme: http://www.unep.org/

World Resources Institute: http://www.wri.org/

World Wide Fund: http://www.worldwildlife.org/

 

Business from Other Perspectives

1.    Daryl Koehn, What Can Eastern Philosophy Teach Us About Business Ethics?

            About Daryl Koehn - http://www.stthom.edu/cbes/profile.html

            Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation site http://www.apecsec.org.sg/apec.html

Asian Values and the Universality of Human Rights report from University of Maryland School of Public Affairs

            http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/li.htm

Koichi Iwabuchi: "Complicit Exoticism: Japan and Its Other" From the Austalian Journal of Media and Culture http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/8.2/Iwabuchi.html

Stein Tonnesson "Orientalism, Occidentalism and Knowing about Others"

http://www.multiworld.org/m_versity/decolonisation/saidres.htm

     Kenneth Inada "A Buddist Response to the Nature of Human Rights" http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/2/inada1.html

Amartya Sen quote on 'Asian Values' in Leslie Nurse article, Yale Daily News: http://www.nd.edu/%7Ekmukhopa/cal300/sen/art1014l.htm

Confucius page by Keith Ammann http://www.cifnet.com/%7Egeenius/kongfuzi/

UCLA Center for East Asian Studies http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/

 

2.    Tanri Abeng, Business Ethics in an Islamic Context

About Tanri Abeng - http://www.tanriabeng.com/

Islam world.net site with links and translation of the Koran http://www.islamworld.net/

A brief illustrated guide to understanding Islam from the Islam-Guide site  http://www.islam-guide.com/

Islam 101 site http://www.islam101.com/

Islam Questions and Answers Site by Islam qu.com site http://63.175.194.25/index.php?ln=eng

 

3.    Ronald M. Green, Guiding Principles of Jewish Business Ethics

            About Ronald Green - http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Ereligion/faculty/green-bio.html

Jewish Business Ethics Resources and Links:

·          Business Ethics Center of Jerusalem http://www.besr.org/

·          Jewish Association of Business Ethics http://www.jabe.org/

·          Shamash site - resources and links http://www.shamash.org/trb/judaism.html

·          Jewish Law article by Rabbi Yitzchok Breitowitz http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/JewBusEthI.html

·          J.D. Stone page on Jewish Teachings http://www.jdstone.org/truth/pages/teach.html

Carrollton, KY Bus Crash

MADD article on the crash http://www.madd.org/aboutus/0,1056,1711,00.html

National Coalition for School Bus Safety Article by James S. Kunen: http://www.ncsbs.org/facts3.htm

Associated Press article, "Driver freed after 9 years" by Mark Chellgren http://www.jsonline.com/news/nat/sep99/drunkendriver090199.asp

 

“Leadership, Values, and the Force of the Institution.”

1.     Patrick Murphy and Georges Enderle: Managerial Ethical Leadership

About Patrick Murphy: http://www.business.nd.edu/Faculty/faculty_bio_page.cfm?who=pmurphy1

About Georges Enderle: http://www.business.nd.edu/Faculty/faculty_bio_page.cfm?who=genderle

 

2.    David Messick and Max Bazerman: Ethical Leadership and the Psychology of Decision Making About David Messick: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/Faculty/bio/messickd.htm

About Max Bazerman: http://dor.hbs.edu/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=bio&facEmId=mbazerman

Herald of Free Enterprise:

University of Glasgow Website: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/%7Ejohnson/image_map/ship/

BBC Website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/6/newsid_2515000/2515923.stm

United Kingdom Parliament Website: http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199596/cmhansrd/vo960221/debtext/60221-04.htm

International Maritime Organization: http://www.imo.org/HumanElement/mainframe.asp?topic_id=182

University of South Australia: http://business.unisa.edu.au/cobar/corpresp/case_studies/study3.htm

 

3.    Ronald Sims: Linking Groupthink to Unethical Behavior in Organizations

·          About Ronald Sims: http://business.wm.edu/homepage.asp?PID=458

4.    Robert Jackall: Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work:

             About Robert Jackall: http://www.williams.edu/AnthSoc/jackall.htm

5.    James Weber: Adapting Kohlberg to Enhance the Assessment of Manager’s Moral Reasoning About James Weber: Association for Moral Education: http://www.amenetwork.org/

              Kohlberg Website: http://www.psy.pdx.edu/PsiCafe/KeyTheorists/Kohlberg.htm

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“Environmental Ethics Pages.”

             Best Environmental Directories -- http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/cds.html

             Center for Environmental Philosophy -- http://www.cep.unt.edu/

             Ecoweb -- http://www.ecoweb.org/do/Home

             Environmental Defense Fund -- http://www.environmentaldefense.org/home.cfm

Factory Farming

Grace Factory Farm Project -- http://www.factoryfarm.org/

Sierra Club on Factory Farms -- http://www.sierraclub.org/factoryfarms/

Vegcom Factory Farm Photo Gallery -- http://www.factoryfarming.com/gallery.htm

Vegcom Factory Farm Videos -- http://www.factoryfarming.com/gallery/photos_video.htm

Western Organization of Resource Councils --http://www.worc.org/issues/factfarms.html

Animal Rights Canada -- http://www.animalrightscanada.com/factoryfarms/

Consumer's Union -- http://www.consumersunion.org/food/nrdcfactsw1298.htm

             Friends of the Earth -- http://www.foe.org/

             Gaia Hypothesis -- http://www.oceansonline.com/gaiaho.htm

             Greenpeace -- http://www.greenpeace.org/international/

             The Millenium Institute -- http://www.millenniuminstitute.net/

             National Audubon Society -- http://www.audubon.org/

             Natural Resources Defense Council -- http://www.nrdc.org/

             Nature Conservancy -- http://www.nature.org/

             Public Interest Research Group -- http://www.uspirg.org/

             Rainforest Action Network -- http://www.ran.org/

             Sierra Club -- http://www.sierraclub.org/

             SustainAbility -- http://www.sustainability.com/

             United Nations Environment Programme -- http://www.unep.org/

             Women's Environment and Development Organization -- http://www.wedo.org/

             World Resources Institute -- http://www.wri.org/

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Sources: Kavin Gibson (2006). “Business Ethics, People, Profit, and the Planet.” McGraw-Hill

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