You've Got To Be Kidding! How to Keep Your Job Without Losing Your Integrity

by DeMars, Nan

• ISBN13: 9780470947517
• ISBN10: 0470947519
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-21
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Nan DeMars is an internationally recognized office ethics keynote speaker, seminar leader, author, and columnist. She is President of Executary Services, a consulting firm providing workplace ethics training and C-Suite assistant search. Her office ethics columns for OfficePro magazine are its most read feature. She has also served as international president of the International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP), for which she authored its first-ever Code of Ethics.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xv
Introduction: Why Do We Care about Ethics in the Workplace?: Are We Really That Vulnerable? More than Ever Today!	p. xix
Take Care of Yourself
When Morals Become Ethics: Your Beliefs Become Your Behaviors	p. 3
The Age of Accountability: The ôMy Boss Told Me to Do Itö Defense Is No Defense!	p. 16
The Twin Faces of Loyalty: The ôNew Loyaltyö at Work Is a Two-Way Street	p. 30
True Myths? It Depends!: Let's See Things as They Really Are-Not as We Want Them to Be!	p. 50
Mea Culpa-I Screwed Up!: How to Recover from a Major Goof-Up!	p. 62
Take Care of Your Organization
Zip It!: A Culture of Confidentiality Is Your Goal!	p. 73
Security Is Your Problem (Like It or Not)!: You Are the Gatekeeper of Company Assets	p. 91
Gossip Over the Cubicle Fence: Gossip Can Tear Apart the Ethical Office	p. 113
Cupid in the Cubicle: Dangers of the ôTriple Rö	p. 121
Party Up-or Party Down?: The Worst Hangover May Come with a Lawsuit!	p. 135
Trick or Treat: Vendors Can Be Tricksters, and They Wear Many Masks	p. 141
Copyright or Copy Wrong?: There Are Boundaries around Intellectual Property	p. 148
To Blow or Not to Blow: If You Blow the Whistle, Blow Wisely!!	p. 158
Take Care of Your Supervisor
The Trouble with the Boss-Is the Boss!	p. 169
The Dog Ate My Laptop: Lies, Lies-and More Lies!	p. 185
The XXX Files: The Workplace Is No Place for Porn!	p. 204
Abuse in the Workplace: If It Hurts, It's Abuse-and If It Happens More than Once, It's Harassment!	p. 209
You Can Keep Your Integrity and Your Job
Raises, Not Roses!: Today's Professional Assistant Has New Respect!	p. 231
The Ethics of Job Hunting: How to Look for a Job While on the Job!	p. 243
Start Talking!: Everyone Chooses the Ethics of Their Office-Not Just Upper Management and Obvious Victims	p. 253
Doing the Right Thing Never Looked So Right!: At the End of the Day, You Go Home with Yourself!	p. 264
Acknowledgments	p. 279
About the Author	p. 281
Index	p. 283
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