Making the Right Decision

Provides the reader with a unique decision-making tool by showing how ethics play an integral part of all business decisions. It offers excellent advice on how to apply ethics in all of your everyday decisions whether they be large or small. Features an illustrative case study of one company's decision making process and the ethical considerations behind their choices. Contains business suggestions for integrating ethics into everyday management--from establishing a corporate code to implementing an in-house ethics training program. ETHICAL ISSUES FROM A COMPANY PERSPECTIVE.

A Board's Painful Decision.

The Role of Ethics in Company Decisions.

A Company's Hard Decision--Revisited.

How Does a Company Decide What Is Right?.

ETHICAL ISSUES FROM AN INDIVIDUAL PERSPECTIVE.

The Individual's Role in Business Ethics.

Some Tough Soul Searching.

ASPECTS OF A CORPORATE ETHICS PROGRAM.

Ethics Can Be Taught.

Components of a Program.

Is Business Ethics Worthwhile?.

The Story's Epilogue.

Conclusion: How to Get an Ethics Program Started.

William D. Hall is the author of Making the Right Decision: Ethics for Managers, published by Wiley.