Business Ethics

LANGUAGE AND CIVIL S OCIETY E-JOURNAL

B USINESS ETHICS
P REFACE
This volume in the English Teaching Forum's electronic journal Language and Civil Society is devoted to Business
Ethics.
Some business practices traverse national and cultural boundaries. Others do not. In this volume, we will
begin with a primary emphasis on business ethics as it relates to human rights, fairness, andjustice.
With a content-based language teaching approach, the materials presented in this volume will help English
language teachers around the world who want to teach English for business ethics.
The volume contains ten chapters. The chapters provide teachers summaries of information on business ethics
and materials for use in classes and tutorials. Each chapter contains the following criticalelements: accurate
and helpful information about business ethics, useful activities (with handouts, overhead transparencies, and
readings), a list of resources (on-line and others) to assist teachers, and finally, references for the information
and materials used in the chapter.
The primary author for this volume is Dr. Lizabeth England.
Liz England is Professor and Chair of TESOL, School ofEducation and Human Development, Shenandoah
University, Winchester, Virginia, United States. She has published books and articles on a variety of topics,
including English for Specific Purposes (ESP) with an emphasis on English for business and ESP teacher
education. She has provided teacher education courses and workshops for teachers and graduate students in
both on line and face-to-facedelivery settings. She has managed a national curriculum revision project and
several university-based curriculum revision (including administration, curriculum, assessment, accreditation
and teacher education) projects for ESL, EFL and TESOL. She supervised teachers of English and Arabic at the
American University in Cairo, Egypt, as well as at the Hong Kong Institute for Education. Currently, sheleads
an online program in TESOL offering courses leading to Master‘s and certificates in TESOL. Her short-term
training projects are sponsored by United States Department of State (English Language Programs Office),
ministries of education, universities, and Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
international and TESOL affiliates worldwide.
In addition to workshops in theUnited States (District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan and
Virginia), here is a full list of countries in which Dr. England has done teacher education workshops and shortterm consultancies: Afghanistan, Chile, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Germany, Hong Kong,
India, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Macau, Mexico, Occupied Territories-Palestine, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, SaudiArabia, Senegal, Syria, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
BUSINESS ETHICS VOLUME
Chapter 1

Principles of Business Ethics

Chapter 2

Ethics at Work- Leadership and Integrity

Chapter 3

Business Education- Ethics and New Professionals

Chapter 4

Whistle blowing- Alerting Management to Unethical PracticesChapter 5

Socially Responsible Business- Doing the Right Thing

Chapter 6

Mass Communications and Ethics- Television

Chapter 7

Intellectual Property- Yours, Mine, and Ours

Chapter 8

Ethical Investing

Chapter 9

Quality Standards

Chapter 10

Marketing with a Conscience: Sales and Ethics

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CHAPTER 1
PRINCIPLES OFBUSINESS ETHICS
Ethics form the foundation for international economic activities. Ethical guidelines are essential in
making business decisions. Business professionals have responsibilities to make decisions based
upon ethical principles. In the 21st century, the role of ethics in international business transactions and
interactions will receive more attention.
Materials in this volume...