Elinor Joy J. Antonio                                                                               April 4, 2008

BS-IM O0A                                                                                                          IT ETHIC

Book Review # 13

Title: “Managing Business Ethics”

Authors: Linda K. Treviño and Katherine A. Nelson

HF 5387 T73 1999

            This book is all about theories and practices in which ethics makes working with people meaningful and important. It is based on experiences and true to life stories in which people can learn new and valuable things in life that are applicable in workplaces or even handling relationships with other people.

            It is very important to learn ethics because this will help you to build good relationships with other people as well as be a good person ethically.

CHAPTER 1 - “Introducing Straight Talk About Managing Business Ethics”

“dilemmas – situations concerning right and wrong where values are in conflict (Page 4)”

            Dilemmas are problems that make us decide whether we’ll choose the right or the wrong side. These are crossroads that sometimes lead us to the wrong path. It is where our decision making takes place.  It is where we base our beliefs, experiences and culture.

CHAPTER 2 – “Why Be Ethical? (Why Bother?  Who Cares?)”

”make as much money as possible while conforming to the basic rules of society, both those embodied in the law and those embodied in ethical custom. – Milton Friedman”( Page 30)

            It is a combination of ethics and legal responsibility in which he wants to state that manager’s main target is to maximize profits of the shareholders, like maximizing your profit in a good way like embracing legally and ethics in a good manner.

CHAPTER 3 –“Common Ethical Problems”

“Discrimination is an ethical issue—beyond any legal protections—because it’s at the core of the fairness in the workplace.”(Page 56)

            This is one of the problems which is common on our society pr in our world today. Fairness can never be done here on earth because there are so many organizations that discriminate base on culture, color, age, sex, race and national origin.