The Right Thing An Everyday Guide to Ethics in Business

by Bibb, Sally

• ISBN13: 9780470688533
• ISBN10: 047068853X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-19
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Trust is business is at an all-time low, but more people than ever claim that working for an ethical company matters to them. Something has to change. But in a everyday working environment, ethics often seem abstract and hard to grasp. The Right Thing is here to help, as leading business consultant Sally Bibb gives you simple steps to make sure that you're working ethically. The book features: Simple explanations of big ethical ideas Case studies to bring ethics to life, and show how bad it can be when ethics go wrong Tips on everything from ethical leadership to creating an ethical culture Checklists so you can make sure you're doing the right thing

Author Biography

Sally Bibb is a business consultant, writer and speaker. She runs two consultancies, Talent Smoothie, which focuses on developing talent in leaders and teams, and Engaging Minds, which looks at issues of employee engagement.
Until 2007, she was a Director at the Economist Group. Her career has spanned HR operations, recruitment, employee relations, learning and development and change management. She has an MSc in Organisational Change from the University of Surrey. She is also a member of the CIPD, an Associate of the Corporate Research Forum, a qualified NLP Practitioner, an Erikson trained coach, and MBTI certified.
Sally is the author of several successful business books, including A Question of Trust (with Jeremy Kourdi, 2007), Management F/Laws (with Russ Ackoff & Herb Addison (2006), The Stone Age Company (2005), Trust Matters (2004 – winner of an MCA award) and The Rookies Guide to Generation Y (2009).  She has also edited the Truth about Business series.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
About the author	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Why Ethics Matter	p. 13
Developing Ethics	p. 35
Understanding Ethics	p. 51
The Ethical Leader	p. 79
Ethical Working Cultures	p. 117
The Future of Ethics	p. 151
Appendix: Summary of Ethics in the Workplace Survey 2010	p. 169
Notes	p. 203
Further reading	p. 205
Index	p. 207
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