Cover -- Licence and Use -- Title Page -- Copyright -- A Note on the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Professional Responsibilities -- 1.1 Standards of Practice -- 1.2 Is Being Professional the Same as Acting Professionally? -- 1.3 Workplace Duties versus Personal Obligations -- 1.4 Kinds of Commitment: Defeasible and Indefeasible Obligations -- 1.5 Degrees of Commitment: Perfect and Imperfect Obligations -- 1.6 Ethically Resolving Conflicts in Business Decisions -- Chapter 2: Stockholder Theory of Management -- 2.1 Managerial Capitalism -- 2.2 Maximization of Profits -- 2.3 Managerial Expertise -- 2.4 Managerial Limitations -- 2.5 Limitations of Stockholder Theory -- Chapter 3: Stakeholder Theory of Management -- 3.1 Cui Bono? -- 3.2 Parameters of "Stakeholder" -- 3.3 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) -- 3.4 The Need for Accountability -- 3.5 Limitations of Stakeholder Theory -- Chapter 4: Critical Thinking in Business -- 4.1 Making Decisions -- 4.2 Cost/Benefit Analysis: the Usefulness of Arguments -- 4.3 Verifying Premises: Types of Claims in Arguments -- 4.4 Types of Arguments -- 4.5 Fallacies -- Chapter 5: Ethics and Business Decisions -- 5.1 Introduction: Taking Ethics into Account -- 5.2 Ethical Egoism -- 5.3 Utilitarianism -- 5.4 Problematic Consequences of Consequentialist Theories -- 5.5 Right Action Oriented Ethics: Kant's Duty Ethics -- 5.6 Character oriented Ethics: Aristotle's Virtue Theory -- 5.7 Limit and Application of Ethical Evaluation -- Appendix A: Sources and Resources -- A.1 Works Cited -- A.2 Other Resources -- Appendix B: Charts -- B.1 Decision Tree -- B.2 Changing Classification of Jobs -- Appendix C: Index of Selected Terms Keyed to Section -- Humanities Insights.