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You've Got To Be Kidding! Nan DeMars

You've Got To Be Kidding! By Nan DeMars

You've Got To Be Kidding! by Nan DeMars


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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! Summary

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

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.

About Nan DeMars

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 xv Introduction Why Do We Care about Ethics in the Workplace?: Are We Really That Vulnerable? More than Ever Today! xix PART I Take Care of Yourself 1 When Morals Become Ethics: Your Beliefs Become Your Behaviors 3 2 The Age of Accountability: The My Boss Told Me to Do It Defense Is No Defense! 16 3 The Twin Faces of Loyalty: The New Loyalty at Work Is a Two-Way Street 30 4 True Myths? It Depends!: Let s See Things as They Really Are Not as WeWant Them to Be! 50 5 Mea Culpa I Screwed Up!: How to Recover from a Major Goof-Up! 62 PART II Take Care of Your Organization 6 Zip It!: A Culture of Confidentiality Is Your Goal! 73 7 Security Is Your Problem (Like It or Not)!: You Are the Gatekeeper of Company Assets 91 8 Gossip Over the Cubicle Fence: Gossip Can Tear Apart the Ethical Office 113 9 Cupid in the Cubicle: Dangers of the Triple R 121 10 Party Up or Party Down?: The Worst Hangover May Come with a Lawsuit! 135 11 Trick or Treat: Vendors Can Be Tricksters, and They Wear Many Masks 141 12 Copyright or Copy Wrong?: There Are Boundaries around Intellectual Property 148 13 To Blow or Not to Blow: If You Blow the Whistle, Blow Wisely!! 158 PART III Take Care of Your Supervisor 14 The Trouble with the Boss Is the Boss! 169 15 The Dog Ate My Laptop: Lies, Lies and More Lies! 185 16 The XXX Files: The Workplace Is No Place for Porn! 204 17 Abuse in the Workplace: If It Hurts, It s Abuse and If It Happens More than Once, It s Harassment! 209 PART IV You Can Keep Your Integrity and Your Job 18 Raises, Not Roses!: Today s Professional Assistant Has New Respect! 231 19 The Ethics of Job Hunting: How to Look for a Job While on the Job! 243 20 Start Talking!: Everyone Chooses the Ethics of Their Office Not Just Upper Management and Obvious Victims 253 21 Doing the Right Thing Never Looked So Right!: At the End of the Day, You Go Home with Yourself! 264 Acknowledgments 279 About the Author 281 Index 283

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GOR013895525
9780470947517
0470947519
You've Got To Be Kidding!: How to Keep Your Job Without Losing Your Integrity by Nan DeMars
Used - Like New
Hardback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
20110701
320
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