The Ethics Challenge: Strengthening Your Integrity in a Greedy World
by Stone, BobFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-08-01
Publisher(s): Ingram Pub Services
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Summary
This Breezy, Story-Filled Guide Explains Why Ethical Behavior Is A Winning Strategy, Then Lays Out Six Things Everyone Can Do To Keep Strong And To Follow Their Good Intentions. Book jacket.
Table of Contents
| Dedication | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Closing the Integrity Gap | p. xv |
| Got Ethics? | p. xix |
| The Ethics Challenge: Why is it that so many of the nicest people aren't as ethical as they think they are? | p. 1 |
| Obey Your Unenforceables: What rules of ethical behavior do you have, and how can you put them into practice? | p. 9 |
| Cheaters Never Win: Why do people think they can win by cheating, and why can't they? | p. 17 |
| Strengthening Your Integrity in a Greedy World | p. 23 |
| Six Actions for Meeting the Ethics Challenge: How to strengthen your ethical behavior and grow as an ethical individual and leader | p. 25 |
| Ethics at Work | p. 39 |
| Ethics for Bosses: How should bosses balance their own needs against those of their people and their organization? | p. 41 |
| Telling Truth to Power: How should one handle unwise or hurtful behavior by the boss or a friends? | p. 49 |
| Impartiality: How impartial can we really be, and what to do about it? | p. 57 |
| Giving and Receiving: What are the ethical issues around exchanging gifts with people who are neither friends nor family? | p. 63 |
| How Would it Look in the Paper? What is the relationship between appearances and ethics? | p. 67 |
| Breaking Rules: When is it ethical to break rules? | p. 73 |
| What's Fair?: Should organizations treat people all the same, or should they try to meet the special needs of each person? | p. 77 |
| Lies, White Lies, and Shiny Shoes: When are we being deceptive, and when is it OK? | p. 83 |
| Ethics Around Us | p. 89 |
| Ethics in Politics: Do we put ethics aside when we think about politics? | p. 91 |
| How You Play the Game: Is winning or losing more important than how you play the game? | p. 101 |
| Other People's Money: When is it legitimate to gain benefits from other people's property? | p. 107 |
| Ethics and the Media: How does an ethical person deal with sometimes unethical media, and what is his obligation to be informed? | p. 117 |
| Ethics and the Clergy: What should we do when our religious leaders preach the inferiority of others? | p. 123 |
| Appendix: The Three Theories of Ethics | p. 129 |
| Index | p. 131 |
| About the Authors | p. 137 |
| Notes | p. 141 |
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