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Author:   Nan DeMars
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780470947517

ISBN 10:   0470947519
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 July 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

Preface xv Introduction Why Do We Care about Ethics in the Workplace?: Are We Really That Vulnerable? More than Ever Today! xix PART I Take Care of Yourself 1 When Morals Become Ethics: Your Beliefs Become Your Behaviors 3 2 The Age of Accountability: The “My Boss Told Me to Do It” Defense Is No Defense! 16 3 The Twin Faces of Loyalty: The “New Loyalty” at Work Is a Two-Way Street 30 4 True Myths? It Depends!: Let’s See Things as They Really Are—Not as WeWant Them to Be! 50 5 Mea Culpa—I Screwed Up!: How to Recover from a Major Goof-Up! 62 PART II Take Care of Your Organization 6 Zip It!: A Culture of Confidentiality Is Your Goal! 73 7 Security Is Your Problem (Like It or Not)!: You Are the Gatekeeper of Company Assets 91 8 Gossip Over the Cubicle Fence: Gossip Can Tear Apart the Ethical Office 113 9 Cupid in the Cubicle: Dangers of the “Triple R” 121 10 Party Up—or Party Down?: The Worst Hangover May Come with a Lawsuit! 135 11 Trick or Treat: Vendors Can Be Tricksters, and They Wear Many Masks 141 12 Copyright or Copy Wrong?: There Are Boundaries around Intellectual Property 148 13 To Blow or Not to Blow: If You Blow the Whistle, Blow Wisely!! 158 PART III Take Care of Your Supervisor 14 The Trouble with the Boss—Is the Boss! 169 15 The Dog Ate My Laptop: Lies, Lies—and More Lies! 185 16 The XXX Files: The Workplace Is No Place for Porn! 204 17 Abuse in the Workplace: If It Hurts, It’s Abuse—and If It Happens More than Once, It’s Harassment! 209 PART IV You Can Keep Your Integrity and Your Job 18 Raises, Not Roses!: Today’s Professional Assistant Has New Respect! 231 19 The Ethics of Job Hunting: How to Look for a Job While on the Job! 243 20 Start Talking!: Everyone Chooses the Ethics of Their Office—Not Just Upper Management and Obvious Victims 253 21 Doing the Right Thing Never Looked So Right!: At the End of the Day, You Go Home with  Yourself! 264 Acknowledgments 279 About the Author 281 Index 283

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Nan DeMars is an internationally recognized office ethics keynote speaker, seminar leader, author, and columnist. She is President of Executary Services, a consulting firm providing workplace ethics training and C-Suite assistant search. Her office ethics columns for OfficePro magazine are its most read feature. She has also served as international president of the International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP), for which she authored its first-ever Code of Ethics.

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