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By: Nan DeMarseBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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What to do when you're caught in the middle of an ethical dilemma at work
In today's super-stressed workplace, an ethical dilemma can come at you when you least expect it. Here's how to do the right thing without losing your integrity?or your job. You've GOT To Be Kidding will help you create an ethics-based workplace that's a joy to work in. This isn't the usual top-down, executive-only manual, but an approach to workplace ethics that's as relevant and accessible to employees as it is to managers and executives. From renowned workplace educator and author of You Want Me To Do What?, this book is filled with recognizable examples ripped from today's headlines that put ethical principles in concrete terms. Filled with recognizable examples that put ethical principles in concrete terms Covers such topics as topics as loyalty, confidentiality, security, office romance, harassment, social networking at work, harassment, workplace bullying, lying for your boss, and even Internet mischief A practical manual for assessing, discussing, and resolving ethical dilemmas in the workplace
With employees at all levels being held more accountable than ever before, You've GOT To Be Kidding gives businesses of all types and sizes a winning set of principles and practices to do business at the highest ethical level and serves as a guide for anyone who wants to do the right thing without losing their integrity or their job.
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| Title of Business & Economics eBook: You've Got To Be Kidding! | |
| Release Date: 05-23-2011 | |
| Publisher: Wiley |
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You've Got To Be Kidding!
Chapter One
When Morals Become EthicsYour Beliefs Become Your Behaviors
Whatever we want our children to be, we should become ourselves. —Carl Jung
A gentleman stood up in one of my citywide seminars in Knoxville, Tennessee, that many University of Tennessee students were attending. He announced that he was "only speaking to the young people in the audience" and went on to tell the story below. I'm so glad he did:
I had just graduated from college and had my first job with an oil company in Oklahoma City 25 years ago. Jobs were scarce at the time, and I especially needed mine because my wife was pregnant. My boss called me into his office one day and gave me two envelopes—one with a roundtrip ticket to Phoenix, the other with $10,000 in cash. He told me to fly to Phoenix and give the envelope to the chief of a Native American reservation in the area. I don't know where I got the nerve at the time, but I remember asking him "why?" He replied, "We are trying to buy the oil rights of his reservation." To this day, I can tell you the suit I was wearing, the color of my shirt and tie, and how my knees were wobbling. I mustered up my courage and replied, "Then, this is a bribe?" My boss immediately responded, "No, no, no—this is just the way we do business!" Now, I had a choice, and it turned out to be the choice that framed my future business career. In a slightly shaky but firm voice, I replied: "Then, I can't do that."
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