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The right way to win : making business ethics work in the real world / Robert Zafft

Author
Zafft, Robert
Published
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]
Copyright Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 237 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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Contents
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Enough Already! -- PART I: WHAT IS ETHICAL BEHAVIOR? -- 1 CEO Follies: Beyond Greed -- 2 Finding Ethics in a Lifeboat: Decision-Making Frameworks -- 3 Machiavelli: Self-Interest and Self-Regard Posing as Ethics -- 4 The Trashing of Hilton Head: Who Sets the Ethical Baseline? -- PART II: THE ETHICAL BUSINESS AND OTHER FANTASTIC BEASTS -- 5 Owners, Managers, and Stakeholders: Whose Business Is It, Anyway? -- 6 The Market for Reputation: A Fresh Take on the Ford Pinto Scandal -- 7 "You Deal, You Die": The Godfather and Warren Buffett on Reputation and 8 The Hazards of Lumpy Risk: How Arthur Andersen Met Its End -- PART III: RUNNING AN ETHICAL ORGANIZATION IN THE REAL WORLD -- 9 Organizational Design: The Who and What of Accountability -- 10 Process Control: The How of Accountability -- 11 Culture: The Why of Accountability -- 12 Crises and Cross-Fires: Weathering the Storm -- We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Us -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary
In this pragmatic and accessible business ethics guide, students, entrepreneurs, and professionals learn that business ethics is about so much more than right and wrong. Harvard-educated and McKinsey & Co.-trained business leader Robert Zafft shows that being ethical is not an obstacle to but an essential building block for success.
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ISBN
1538140721
9781538140727 (electronic bk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index.
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