Thursday, January 22, 2009

Business and Society or Enterprise Systems Integration

Business and Society: A Business Approach To Social Responsibility

Author: Debbie Thorne McAlister

A brief alternative to its competitors, Business and Society combines 12 chapters with 12 cases to offer a strategic approach to social responsibility. Streamlined coverage of key topics allows undergraduate students and MBA majors to focus on only what they need to prepare for in the real business world. Concise chapter content allows instructors to introduce outside resources into their course, such as readings, cases, and projects that enhance students' understanding of the material. Students will gain the background knowledge, skills, and insight necessary to analyze how organizations achieve both social and financial performance benefits through social responsibility.

  • What Would You Do? mini-cases appear at the end of each chapter, presenting students with a scenario that highlights ethics, social responsibility, morals, workplace conduct, and other important themes.
  • Over 60% of the cases are new. In addition, the collection has been divided into two parts to clearly distinguish between organizations that have succeeded and those that have struggled with corporate citizenship.
  • Real examples of Social Responsibility Audits appear on the textbook web site. These reports provide students with an insider's look at how companies are actually measuring, assessing, and communicating their social and ethical performance results.
  • Five expanded Role-Playing Exercises promote teamwork and develop students' group decision-making skills.



Table of Contents:
Contents

Note: Each chapter includes a Summary, Key Terms, Discussion Questions, an Experiential Exercise, and "What Would You Do?"

  • 1. Social Responsibility Framework
    Social Responsibility Defined
    Development of Social Responsibility
    Global Nature of Social Responsibility
    Benefits of Social Responsibility
    Framework for Studying Social Responsibility
  • 2. Strategic Management of Stakeholder Relationships
    Stakeholders Defined
    Stakeholder Identification and Importance
    Performance with Stakeholders
    Development of Stakeholder Relationships
    Link Between Stakeholder Relationships and Social Reponsibility
  • 3. Legal, Regulatory, and Political Issues
    Government's Influence on Business
    Business's Influence on Government
    The Government's Approach for Legal and Ethical Compliance
  • 4. Business Ethics and Ethical Decision Making
    The Nature of Business Ethics
    Foundations of Business Ethics
    Ethical Issues in Business
    Understanding the Ethical Decision-Making Process
  • 5. Strategic Approaches to Improving Ethical Behavior
    The Need for Organizational Ethics Programs
    Codes of Conduct
    Ethics Officers
    Ethics Training and Communication
    Establishing Systems to Monitor and Enforce Ethical Standards
    Continuous Improvement of the Ethical Program
    Implementing Organizational Ethics Programs
  • 6. Corporate Governance
    Corporate Governance Defined
    Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
    History of Corporate Governance
    Issues in Corporate Governance Systems
    Corporate Governance Around the World
    Future of Corporate Governance
  • 7.Consumer and Community Relations
    Consumer Stakeholders
    Responsibilities to Consumers
    Community Stakeholders
    Responsibilities to the Community
    Strategic Implementation of Responsibilities to Consumers and the Community
  • 8. Employee Relations
    Employee Stakeholders
    Responsibilities to Employees
    Strategic Implementation of Responsibilities to Employees
  • 9. Environmental Issues
    Global Environmental Issues
    Environmental Policy and Regulation
    Business Response to Environmental Issues
    Strategic Implementation of Environmental Responsibility
  • 10. Technology Issues
    The Nature of Technology
    Technology's Influence on the Economy
    Technology's Influence on Society
    Strategic Implementation of Responsibility for Technology
  • 11. Strategic Philanthropy
    Strategic Philanthropy Defined
    Strategic Philanthropy and Social Responsibility
    Stakeholders in Strategic Philanthropy
    Benefits of Strategic Philanthropy
    Implementation of Strategic Philanthropy
  • 12. The Social Audit
    The Nature of Social Auditing
    The Auditing Process
    Strategic Importance of Social Auditing
  • Cases
    Part I. Successful Management of Social Responsibility
    Case 1. Coca-Cola Company: Crisis and Reputation Management
    Case 2. Wainwright Bank & Trust: Banking on Values
    Case 3. Conoco's Decision: The First Annual President's Award for Business Ethics
    Case 4. Home Depot: Commitment to Social Responsibility
    Case 5. New Belgium Brewing Company: Environmental and Social Concerns
    Case 6. Double Click: Privacy on the Internet
    Part II. Challenges in Social Responsibility
    Case 7. Enron: Questionable Accounting Leads to Collapse
    Case 8. Worldcom: Actions Lead to Corporate Reform
    Case 9. Martha Stewart: Insider-Trading Scandal
    Case 10. Arthur Andersen: Questionable Accounting Practices
    Case 11. Tyco International: Leadership Crisis
    Case 12. Global Crossing: Inflated Sales Lead to Bankruptcy
  • Appendix: Role Play Exercises

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Enterprise Systems Integration

Author: John Wyzalek

Fast-moving advances in information technology can easily put youat a competitive disadvantage should you fail to keep up with them. It is a subtle and often costly art to integrate technology with business practices. And today, integrated systems form the backbone of virtually every successful, profitable, high-performance organization
Featuring critical technology tips, strategies and assessments from some of the most highly respected consultants and developers in the field, Enterprise Systems Integration is a one-of-a-kind resource. The result of many thousands of hours of actual hands-on work in the field, it gives you a rich blend of researched knowledge and practical experience. It delivers proven, successful, economical solutions to real-world problems associated with the host of systems integration technologies and methodologies. It brings you coverage of those issues that plague you most: Enabling technologies, such as middleware, CORBA, COM, and Enterprise Java Integrated databases of all types-legacy, relational, and object Data warehousing, including Web-enabled data warehouses Enterprise resource packages Networking Electronic messaging The Internet and the Web, including e-commerce Save your organization hundreds of hours in expensive trial-and-error by taking lessons from the experience of others as recounted in the thorough, no-nonsense chapters of Enterprise Systems Integration. The expert contributors give you detailed accounts of: Symptoms of a terminally ill systems integration project Integrating package processes over multiple application platforms Making the transition from legacy systems to strategic architectures Integrating information systems methodologies into the horizontal organization and much more Enterprise Systems Integration brings together crucial information and insight for making the best possible decisions about today's most important information technologies.



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