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In a provocative marriage of contemporary concerns and traditional ethics theory, Dr. Barton probes the ethical quagmire facing businesses today: embezzlement, race discrimination, sexual harassment, deceptive advertising, and invasion of employee privacy, to name a few. Based on over 640 cases of ethical abuse, this thought-provoking work analyzes the breakdown of ethics in the workplace by dissecting authentic cases at major corporations.
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Ethics: The Enemy In The Workplace is truth or deception, depending on how you and your employer perceive the "rules" of working with others. This thought-provoking work analyzes several of the most disturbing ethical quagmires facing organizations today: embezzlement, invasion of employee privacy, fraud and sexual harassment, to name a few. Author Laurence Barton probes the underlying causes of these abuses by dissecting cases at Procter & Gamble, Phar-Mor, Dow Corning, Blue Cross-Blue Shield and dozens of other leading employers. In doing so, he persuasively demonstrates how ethics and profit often collide, and how a new paradigm of business ethics is emerging.This book features a comprehensive ethics audit aimed at helping the reader avoid impropriety and legal headaches. It concludes with an unprecedented look inside "the best of the best" of ethics programs now being used by a dozen leading organizations including AT&T, Union Carbide, Hewlett-Packard, Teledyne and Harvard University.
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