A Good Day's Work
Sustaining Ethical Behavior and Business Success
Published on 16. January 2007
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-07-148265-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Delivers a comprehensive blueprint for making ethical behavior integral to business processes and performance managementGoes beyond posted codes of conduct to illustrate how daily business practice maintains or impedes doing the right thing in the right wayProvides a decision-making tool to assess business activity against a pragmatic and sound ethical standardIllustrates how ethical breaches often stem from small missteps and offers techniques for preventing them
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.
Delivers a comprehensive blueprint for making ethical behavior integral to business processes and performance managementGoes beyond posted codes of conduct to illustrate how daily business practice maintains or impedes doing the right thing in the right wayProvides a decision-making tool to assess business activity against a pragmatic and sound ethical standardIllustrates how ethical breaches often stem from small missteps and offers techniques for preventing them
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
589 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-148265-3 (9780071482653)
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Alice Darnell Lattal, Ph.D., has a doctorate in clinical psychology and is President and CEO of Aubrey Daniels International (ADI) an international management consulting firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. She is an adjunct professor of psychology at West Virginia University, a member of the Board of Directors of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, listed in Whos Who of American Women, and is a Diplomate in Forensic Psychology. She has served as president of her state psychological association and has been a part of or an owner of several companies using behavior analysis to produce fluency with populations as diverse as elementary school age children and adults learning to read to companies working to increase discretionary effort by arranging positive management strategies. She has previously published, along with Dr. Clark, Workplace Ethics: Winning the Integrity Revolution (Rowman & Littlefield, 1993), as well as written articles in refereed journals.