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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827173503321

Titolo

Just a job? : communication, ethics, and professional life / / George Cheney ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-19-988468-4

1-282-34634-2

9786612346347

0-19-972038-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CheneyGeorge

Disciplina

174

174.4

Soggetti

Occupations

Professional ethics

Success

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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