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"Never has ethical business conduct received as much attention and focus as it does at present, in the wake of the far-reaching financial and societal effects of the dramatic collapses that have thundered through Corporate America. Whether your company is private, publicly-held, works with the government -- either contractually or through direct regulation -- the establishment and enforcement of a comprehensive, ethical code of conduct within your...

"Daniel Terris spent two years researching materials and interviewing Lockheed Martin ethics officers and ordinary employees to develop his case study of the ethics program at the powerful global corporation. The study begins with a survey of American attitudes toward ethics in business over the past century, raising the question of whether ethics can be genuinely built into the modern mega-corporation. Terris then develops a portrait of Lockheed...

Faith and Fortune argue that an exciting new model of conducting business is taking hold, not only in small, socially responsible companies like Ben & Jerry's but inside such bulwarks of the Fortune 500 as Ford, Citigroup, and DuPont. This book is a thoughtful, original, and important book that will reshape the debate about the role of business in America.

"This NewsHour program scrutinizes the state of business ethics in an America riddled with financial fraud"--Container

When financial statements paint a rosy picture of a company one day and the same company announces massive losses the next, it can only be assumed that fortunes haven't actually changed overnight. This provocative book tells why accounting has failed to deliver the truth about a company's state of affairs or to give warning of its drift towards failure. In this lively and readable book, the authors balance broad interpretation and recommendations...

In Wheel, Deal, and Steal, D. Quinn Mills shows investors how the financial frauds work, where the money goes, who's to blame, and what they can do about it. He explains how imperial CEOs continue to mislead their investors---and how the rules intended to protect investors continue to fail. Mills outlines comprehensive reforms that can clean up the system and keep it clean, by finally eliminating the incentives that still promote massive corruption....

Roberta Johnson explores when and how---and to what effect---people make the choice to blow the whistle. Johnson (politics, U. of San Francisco) reviews the phenomena of organizational and government whistle blowing in the United States, exploring its causes and effects. Utilizing a number of case examples to illustrate the material, she examines the motivational factors behind whistle blowing, the conditions necessary for whistle blowing to result...

The American Dream is in serious danger, according to Robert Wuthnow - not because of economic conditions, but because its moral underpinnings have been forgotten. In the past this vision was not simply a formula for success, but a moral perspective that framed our thinking about work and money in terms of broader commitments to family, community, and humanitarian values. Nowadays, we are working harder than ever, and yet many of us feel that we are...

"In the great boom of the 1990s, top management's compensation soared, but the wages of most Americans barely grew at all. This wage stagnation has baffled experts, but in The new ruthless economy, Simon Head points to information technology as the prime cause of this growing wage disparity"--Jacket.