Associate Professor and Associate Dean linda f. harrison co-authored a text book with Professor Dawn Bennett-Alexander (University of Georgia) titled “The Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Environment of Business in a Diverse Society” (McGraw-Hill – ISBN: 0073524921). Unlike other business law and legal environment texts, this text focuses on the diverse workplace and illustrates how critical diversity is in all aspects of business – local, regional, national or global.
This is the first legal environment text to take the diversity implications into consideration as a normal and necessary part of business decisions. Like law in general, the legal environment of business is not static. As society changes, laws change along with it, and the law as it relates to business must also change.
For decades, the required course in law for business schools was composed mostly of contracts. Realizing the growing importance of government regulations on business, the AACSB, which sets accreditation standards for collegiate schools of business, believed the coverage of legal topics should be much broader — thus the required course in the Legal Environment of Business was born. Once merely an add-on mentioned only by some professors, the incorporation of AACSB standards and ethics coverage is now standard material in Legal Environment courses.
The authors believe that U.S. business is taking place in an increasingly diverse society that is not like the one in which previous generations may have operated, and it is time to address this change.
Read the book’s preface here: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073524921/information_center_view0/book_preface.html