The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse

The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse

Author: Marianne M. Jennings

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2006-08-22

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 1466824255

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Do you want to make sure you · Don't invest your money in the next Enron? · Don't go to work for the next WorldCom right before the crash? · Identify and solve problems in your organization before they send it crashing to the ground? Marianne Jennings has spent a lifetime studying business ethics---and ethical failures. In demand nationwide as a speaker and analyst on business ethics, she takes her decades of findings and shows us in The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse the reasons that companies and nonprofits undergo ethical collapse, including: · Pressure to maintain numbers · Fear and silence · Young 'uns and a larger-than-life CEO · A weak board · Conflicts · Innovation like no other · Belief that goodness in some areas atones for wrongdoing in others Don't watch the next accounting disaster take your hard-earned savings, or accept the perfect job only to find out your boss is cooking the books. If you're just interested in understanding the (not-so) ethical underpinnings of business today, The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse is both a must-have tool and a fascinating window into today's business world.


Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership

Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership

Author: Craig E. Johnson

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2017-01-10

Total Pages: 837

ISBN-13: 150632164X

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Ethics is at the heart of leadership. All leaders assume ethical burdens and must make every effort to make informed ethical decisions and foster ethical behavior among followers. The Sixth Edition of Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow explores the ethical demands of leadership and the dark side of leadership. Author Craig E. Johnson takes a multidisciplinary approach to leadership ethics, drawing from many fields of research to help readers make moral decisions, lead in a moral manner, and create an ethical culture. Packed with real-world case studies, examples, self-assessments, and applications, this fully-updated new edition is designed to increase students’ ethical competence and leadership abilities.


The Conscience Code

The Conscience Code

Author: G. Richard Shell

Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1400221145

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The Conscience Code is a practical guide to creating workplaces where everyone can thrive. Surveys show that more than 40% of employees report seeing ethical misconduct at work, and most fail to report it--killing office morale and allowing the wrong people to set the example. Collegiate professor G. Richard Shell has heard work misconduct stories from his MBA students which inspired him to create this helpful guide for navigating these nuances. Shell created?this book?to point to a better path: recognize that these conflicts are coming, learn to spot them, then follow a research-based, step-by-step approach for resolving them skillfully.?By committing to the Code, you can replace regret with long-term career success as a leader of conscience. In The Conscience Code, Shell shares tips and facts that: Solves a crucial problem faced by professionals everywhere: What should they do when they are asked to compromise their core values to achieve organizational goals? Teaches readers to recognize and overcome the five organizational forces that push people toward actions they later regret. Lays out a systematic, values-to-action process that people at all levels can follow to maintain their integrity while achieving true success in their lives and careers. Driven by dramatic, real-world examples from Shell's classroom, today's headlines, and classic cases of corporate wrongdoing, The Conscience Code shows how to create value-based workplaces where everyone can thrive.


Accounting Ethics

Accounting Ethics

Author: Ronald F. Duska

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-11-28

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1119118786

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A trusted resource on the complex ethical questions that define the accounting profession An accountant’s practice depends on making difficult decisions. To achieve the best results, individual accountants and accounting firms need a clear understanding of the ethical duties and decision-making involved in the four major functions of modern accounting—auditing, management accounting, tax accounting, and consulting—as well as a strong sense of ethical conduct to guide the certification and validation of reliable financial records. Now in its third edition, Accounting Ethics is a thorough and engaging exploration of the ethical issues that accountants encounter in their professional lives. Since the publication of the first edition in 2002, Accounting Ethics has become an indispensable resource for accounting courses and certification programs worldwide, known for its focus on real-world application, practical advice, reader-friendly guidance, and its insight into the effects of global change on the profession. Together with coverage of the contemporary regulatory environment—including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act—this revised edition features expanded pedagogical resources such as new end-of-chapter case studies and discussion questions, and includes the updated AICPA Code of Conduct. Concise and dependable, Accounting Ethics sustains its reputation as an authoritative resource for practicing accountants, new professionals, students of accounting, and those who are considering the profession.


Collapse

Collapse

Author: Jared Diamond

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2013-03-21

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 0141976969

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From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future. What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Jared Diamond's Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors. 'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' - Daily Mail 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' - Observer 'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' - Economis 'This book shines like all Diamond's work' - Sunday Times


Ethics in Accounting

Ethics in Accounting

Author: Gordon Klein

Publisher: Wiley Global Education

Published: 2015-12-17

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1118939034

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ETHICS in ACCOUNTING Did you Know? This book is available as a Wiley E-Text. The Wiley E-Text is a complete digital version of the text that makes time spent studying more efficient. Course materials can be accessed on a desktop, laptop, or mobile device—so that learning can take place anytime, anywhere. A more affordable alternative to traditional print, the Wiley E-Text creates a flexible user experience: ✓ Access on-the-go ✓ Search across content ✓ Highlight and take notes ✓ Save money! The Wiley E-Text can be purchased in the following ways: Via your campus bookstore: Wiley E-Text: Powered by VitalSource® ISBN 978-1-118-93904-8 Directly from: www.wiley.com/college/klein


Business Ethics

Business Ethics

Author: Marianne Jennings

Publisher: South Western Educational Publishing

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 9781111533540

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Packed with real-life examples of business decisions gone awry, the book explores the complex issues of business ethics from the leaders' perspectives. This best-selling text offers a rare collection of readings which examines the business decision-making processes of many types of leaders, while revealing some of the common factors that push them over ethical lines they might not otherwise cross.


A Business Tale

A Business Tale

Author: Marianne Jennings

Publisher: Amacom Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780814471975

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Meet Edgar P. Benchley. Charitable people tend to call him a nerd. Others use less subtle descriptions. If you hear Edgar chatting to himself, don't be alarmed. He has an invisible friend who's kind of a cousin to Harvey from that old movie of the same name with Jimmy Stewart. Edgar's rabbit, Ari, possesses many charms. Ari adores Aristotle and Peter Drucker, detests ambulance-chasing lawyers, is well versed in theories of moral development, and can't resist Godiva ice cream. (Hey, even consciences have their weakness.) In high school, Edgar would study for tests all weekend instead of writing the answers on his hands as his friends did. In college, he would write for three days straight rather than buy term papers from We Cheat, Inc. Chalk it up to Ari's influence. With ethics as impeccable as Edgar's, it's no wonder he begins his career as a toll collector. Edgar does have friends, though, who come through and land him some plum jobs. Edgar becomes bookkeeper at Zenon, Inc., which sells million-dollar parts for $11 million. Then he's responsible for compliance at WCAE, a hotbed of insider trading. In his best-paid gig, Edgar samples executive life at a high-flying, IPO-poised start-up that just happens to sell items with a teeny little carcinogenic leak. Somehow - surprise! - Edgar always ends up getting canned. Maybe it has to do with Ari's tireless nudging of Edgar to speak out against the wrongdoings he sees. "If we played by your rules, this country would look like Uzbekistan," one boss angrily tells Edgar. But what Edgar's boss doesn't realize is that taking the ethical route can lead to opportunity knocking. While Edgar's so-called friends eventually get their just deserts, our hero ends up cashing in while keeping his conscience clear. He even gets the girl. Anyone who has ever been challenged by questions of ethics will relish this lively work of fiction and the thought-provoking discussion material that accompanies it.


Obstacles to Ethical Decision-Making

Obstacles to Ethical Decision-Making

Author: Patricia H. Werhane

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-02-14

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1107310687

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In commerce, many moral failures are due to narrow mindsets that preclude taking into account the moral dimensions of a decision or action. In turn, sometimes these mindsets are caused by failing to question managerial decisions from a moral point of view, because of a perceived authority of management. In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram conducted controversial experiments to investigate just how far obedience to an authority figure could subvert his subjects' moral beliefs. In this thought-provoking work, the authors examine the prevalence of narrow mental models and the phenomenon of obedience to an authority to analyse and understand the challenges which business professionals encounter in making ethical decisions. Obstacles to Ethical Decision-Making proposes processes - including collaborative input and critique - by which individuals may reduce or overcome these challenges. It provides decision-makers at all levels in an organisation with the means to place ethical considerations at the heart of managerial decision-making.


Real Estate Law

Real Estate Law

Author: Marianne M. Jennings

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781133586555

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A practical and hands-on study of the laws affecting real property, Marianne Jennings's REAL ESTATE LAW continues to bring to life the law of real estate ownership, transfer, and development while examining the day-to-day transactions of the real estate marketplace. Continuing her tradition of lively case selection and clear discussion of the rules and regulations of real estate, this text has been praised for its practical approach in assisting students as well as real estate professionals to recognize, prevent, and solve legal problems in this exciting field. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.