Moral Issues in Business

by William H. Shaw, Vincent E. Barry

One of the most popular business ethics texts available, MORAL ISSUES IN BUSINESS, Eleventh Edition, guides students in thinking deeply about important moral issues that frequently arise in business situations and helps them develop the reasoning and analytical skills to resolve those issues. Combining insightful and accessible textbook chapters by the authors, cases that highlight the real-world importance of key ethical concepts, and reading selections from the most influential voices in contemporary ethical debates, this book provides a comprehensive, flexible, and pedagogically proven course of study exploring the intersections of commerce and ethics. William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry offer a uniquely thorough and practical guide to the nature of morality, individual integrity and responsibility, economic justice, concepts of capitalism, and the role of corporations in our society (including their responsibilities to consumers and to the environment), and the real-life moral issues that arise in the workplace.

Genres: College, School, Philosophy, Textbooks

686 pages, Paperback

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

[Car · Rating 1 out of 5]

Its incredibly dry and uninteresting, even with it being a textbook.

Aditionally, there is no doubt on where the authors' stand on any and all topics. There is nowhere in this text that their overwhelming bias doesn't shine. There's a smarmy smugness in everything they say - that they *know* they're correct, and any disenting voices are either stupid or malicious. There are entire therories of thought that they wave away by saying "no sane, morally upright person would believe in this."

It was a miserable read, and were I not required to do so for my class, I would've dropped it within the introduction.

[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!