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Practical strategies for promoting ethical behavior

Offering a highly realistic, down-to-earth look at ethics in the workplace, Linda Treviño and Kate Nelson's Managing Business Ethics will help you identify and solve ethical dilemmas, understand why people behave the way they do, and help you design a culture that will promote ethical behavior in your organization.

Throughout, the emphasis is on common, real-life work situations, including hiring, managing, assessing performance, disciplining, firing, and providing incentives for staff, as well as producing quality products and services, and dealing effectively and fairly with customers, vendors, and other stakeholders.

Highlights of the Fourth Edition
* Updated information relates content to current events such as the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines for Corporations.
* Describes the link between ethical culture and employee engagement.
* Covers new research, including the role of emotions in ethical decision making.
* Presents new profiles of organizations such as McWane, Enron, Citigroup, and Marsh & McLennan.
* International references reflect the realities of the increasingly global business environment.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3767 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

From the Back Cover
Practical strategies for promoting ethical behavior

Offering a highly realistic, down-to-earth look at ethics in the workplace, Linda Treviño and Kate Nelson’s Managing Business Ethics will help you identify and solve ethical dilemmas, understand why people behave the way they do, and help you design a culture that will promote ethical behavior in your organization.

Throughout, the emphasis is on common, real-life work situations, including hiring, managing, assessing performance, disciplining, firing, and providing incentives for staff, as well as producing quality products and services, and dealing effectively and fairly with customers, vendors, and other stakeholders.

  Highlights of the Fourth Edition

• Updated information relates content to current events such as the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines for Corporations.
• Describes the link between ethical culture and employee engagement.
• Covers new research, including the role of emotions in ethical decision making.
• Presents new profiles of organizations such as McWane, Enron, Citigroup, and Marsh & McLennan.
• International references reflect the realities of the increasingly global business environment.

About the Author
Linda K. Treviño is Professor of Organizational Behavior, Cook Fellow in Busness Ethics, and Director of the Shoemaker Program in Business Ethics in the Smeal College of Business Administration at The Pennsylvania State University where she has been on faculty since 1987. She served as Chair of the Department of Management and Organization from 1999 - 2003. She holds a Ph.D. in management  from Tesas A&M University. Her research and writing on the management of ethical conduct in organizations is widely published and is internationally known.She has published about fifty journal articles and has co-authored an academic book entitled, Managing Ethics in Business Organizations: Social Scientific Perspectives, with Gary Weaver, in 2003.

Katherine A. Nelson is a founding principal of Talent Strategy Partners in Media, Pennsylvania, and a senior fellow in business ethics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Her expertise includes ethics program design and strategic organizational communication. Kate and her partners at Talent Starategy Partners help organizations attain superior business results by focusing on the threee key levers that influence how employees deliver value—effective leadership, employee commitment, and a deliberate culture. By developing creative approaches to build a "value-mentality" among employees, they influence the cultural elements that underpin employee commitment—the engine that drives value delivery. They focus on the entire employee experience—from how well an organization lives its values and develops its leaders to how well it communicates its vision and rewards its people for outstanding performance.

Customer Reviews

Ethics should be taught sooner than college!
This ethics book is a good comprehensive read. I needed this text for my college course on business ethics. It has definitions, case examples. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants a core foundation of ethical understanding.

I really believe that with all the pressure on today's kids to get good grades and "make it" in the business world, a formal ethics class should be offered starting in junior high!

Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk About How To Do It Right
Excellent book! Breaks things down very differently from other Business Ethics text books. Easy to find information and it is well written and presented. A must read for anyone wanting to learn about Business Ethics!

Good introductory text
This was the prescribed text for a first year course in my MBA program. The text is full of real life examples which make this a better read for such a dry topic as this.