Moral issues in business

by William H. Shaw, Vincent E. Barry

A comprehensive survey of business ethics. A combination of text-anthology-casebook exposes students to the practical skills that should enable them to relate ethics to today's business situations.

Genres: College, School, Philosophy, Textbooks

640 pages, Hardcover

First published April 26, 2000

Reviews

[Ahmed · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love philosophy, and I love business. So this topic is a must for me. The content and issues portrayed in this book are spectacular, however, the author is a bit opinionated for my liking. Usually, when reading philosophy books, especially textbooks for school, you see both sides of a viewpoint. You ask questions and are often times in a gray area, left to choose for yourself "what would you do?" But Shaw more so shoves what HE would, what he thinks is right and what he thinks is wrong; which, in my opinion, fundamentally goes against the study of philosophy. Also, when showing data and comparing statistics to make a point, it's definitely biased and makes it just seem unbelievable.
Overall, great content and much potential, but could have been executed and more open-minded manner.

[Corrie Beebe · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another text book assigned for a class. It was, in a word: DRY. Ugh...There are other texts, basically discussing the same issues, that are less dry and have a greater interactive component. Yes, moral issues and ethical issues are addressed and identified, theory is presented, but all are presented in such a way as to bore the reader. Ethics and morals can be very interesting, but unfortunately this text book isn't.

[Johnny]

I couldn't read

[Eve · Rating 1 out of 5]

Communist manifesto # 2...Shame on you, University of Newcastle, to have an MBA based on such poor and biased literature...such a disappointment.

[Angel]

read this for uni

[Christine]

So glad I finally finished!