Awards
- Commended for Axiom Business Book Awards (Business Ethics) 2011
Overview
How can you effectively stand up for your values when pressured by your boss, customers, or shareholders to do the opposite? Babson College business educator and consultant Mary Gentile draws on actual business experiences as well as social science research to challenge the assumptions about business ethics at companies and business schools. She gives business leaders, managers, and students the tools not just to recognize what is right, but also to ensure that the right things happen. The book is inspired by a programme Gentile launched at the Aspen Institute with Yale School of Management, and now housed at Babson College, with pilot programmes in over one hundred schools and organizations, including INSEAD and MIT Sloan School of Management. She explains why past attempts at preparing business leaders to act ethically too often failed, arguing that the issue isn't distinguishing what is right or wrong, but knowing how to act on your values despite opposing pressure. Through research-based advice, practical exercises, and scripts for handling a wide range of ethical dilemmas, Gentile empowers business leaders with the skills to voice and act on their values, and align their professional path with their principles. ""Giving Voice to Values"" is an engaging, innovative, and useful guide that is essential reading for anyone in business.
Full Product Details
Author: Mary C. Gentile
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.408kg
ISBN: 9780300161182
ISBN 10: 0300161182
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 24 August 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Adult education
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Professional & Vocational
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
Winner of the 2011 Gold Medal for Axiom Business Book Awards in the Business Ethics category, as given by Jenkins Group & IndependentPublisher.com--Axiom Business Book Award Jenkins Group & IndependentPublisher.com (04/11/2011)
Giving Voice To Values heralds a revolution in ethics education. Gentile isn't interested in abstract (and often fruitless) debates about ethical principles -- rather, she wants to help you practice what to do when you know something is unethical. It's like a self-defense class for your soul. --Dan and Chip Heath, authors of Switch and Made to Stick <br><br>--Dan and Chip Heath
Author Information
Mary C. Gentile consults on management education and values-driven leadership. In her ten-year tenure at Harvard Business School, she developed and taught the school's first course on managing diversity, and helped design and taught its first required module on ethical decision-making. Currently she is director of the Giving Voice to Values curriculum and senior research scholar at Babson College. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, strategy+business, BizEd, CFO Magazine, and Risk Management, and she has written several book on ethics and diversity.
