The good, the bad, and your business: Choosing right when ethical dilemmas pull you apart - Hardcover

Seglin, Jeffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471347795 ISBN 13: 9780471347798

Verlag: Wiley & Sons, 2000

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Does the need to make a profit outweigh the need to reward employees fairly? Should you tell your staff why you fired someone and risk being sued for defamation? Is it more important to make payroll or pay your vendors?
Business professionals face ethical decisions like these every day. Such dilemmas will keep even the most seasoned managers tossing and turning at night. You can rest assured that at some point in your career you'll be faced with making, or witness the making of, an ethical decision-and the action you take will not only define you, but also what your company stands for.The pressure to make the right choices is incredible; indecision or one small misstep can be the kiss of death in today's highly competitive, fast-moving economy. Productivity can drop off, employee morale can plummet, dissatisfied customers can flee, and your competitor may take a large bite out of your profits-while the dilemma remains unsolved. The Good, The Bad, and Your Business shows companies how to run more efficiently by improving their navigation of everyday moral business dilemmas. Respected writer and journalist Jeffrey Seglin reveals how otherwise decent people can make mistakes and find themselves in serious ethical trouble.
His practical approach uses real-life examples to help you see the difference between a "gray area" and an outright misdeed so you can act faster when faced with such ethical decisions.Without being preachy or theoretical, The Good, The Bad, and Your Business looks at how others have faced moral dilemmas and gives you the tools to help you reach your own decisions. You'll see firsthand how businesspeople have grappled with difficult issues, from how to draw the line between lying and posturing, to whether it's ever ethical to spy on competitors, to how to align personal beliefs with business practices.You'll also discover the common misperceptions about ethics in business and learn how to define your "comfort" level so that you can conduct business knowing you've made thoughtful decisions with full knowledge of the possible consequences.

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JEFFREY L. SEGLIN is an Editor--at--Large at Inc. magazine and a columnist for the Sunday New York Times business section. He is also an assistant professor in the graduate department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College. Seglin was a fellow in residence at the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard University for the 1998--99 academic year.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0471347795
• ISBN 13: 9780471347798
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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