Just a Job? [[electronic resource] ] : Communication, Ethics, and Professional Life

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456723403321
• Autore: Cheney George
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2009
• ISBN: 0-19-988468-4; 1-282-34634-2; 9786612346347; 0-19-972038-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Disciplina: 174; 174.4
• Soggetti: Occupations; Professional ethics; Success; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; 1 (Re)Framing Ethics at Work; 2 Starting Conversations about Professional Ethics; 3 Working for a Good Life; 4 Being a Professional: Problems and Promises; 5 Reconsidering Organizations as Cultures of Integrity; 6 Seeking Something More in the Market; 7 Finding New Ways to Talk about Everyday Ethics; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: From cartoons to boardrooms comes the statement, ""It's not personal. It's just business."" Just a Job? Communication, Ethics, and Professional Life offers a provocative perspective on ethics at work. The book questions the notions that doing ethics at work has to be work, and that work is somehow a sphere where a different set of rules applies. This problematic line between work and life runs through the ways we commonly talk about ethics, from our personal relationships to the domains of work, including the organization, the profession, and the market. Talk about ethics is far more than ""ju