A good day's work
Subtitle: sustaining ethical behavior and business success
By: Alice Darnell Lattal, Ralph W. Clark with a foreword by Aubrey C. Daniels.
Contributors: Clark, Ralph W.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780071482653
Subjects: Business ethics.
Description: This book gives you actionable tools and processes to ensure the ethical behavior that feeds profitable business growth. The path to business success begins with behavior. This book provides tools from the study of ethics, scientific management practices, and behavioral psychology to ensure that ethical behavior is the foundation for workplace practices. A Good Day's Work delivers strategies to improve the ethical climate for its own sake and achieve business success that supports critically important values necessary for the survival of the broader culture. Everyone, from the mailroom to the boardroom, will benefit. This book: Delivers a comprehensive blueprint for making ethical behavior integral to business processes and performance management; Goes beyond posted codes of conduct to illustrate how daily business practice maintains or impedes doing the right thing in the right way; Provides a decision-making tool to assess business activity against a pragmatic and sound ethical standard; Illustrates how ethical breaches often stem from small missteps and offers techniques for preventing them. - Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-264) and index.