Next are "Defensive Traps," which allow us to "sidestep our guilt and shame," like "contempt for the victim" (Salomon Brothers traders treating customers like moving targets) and "self serving bias" (Ford and Firestone blaming each other for tire safety issues). All right
- Title : The Ethical Executive: Becoming Aware of the Root Causes of Unethical Behavior: 45 Psychological Traps that Every One of Us Falls Prey To
- Author : Robert Hoyk
- Rating : 4.56 (635 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-11-1
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 152 Pages
- Asin : 0804771782
- Language : English
Next are "Defensive Traps," which allow us to "sidestep our guilt and shame," like "contempt for the victim" (Salomon Brothers traders treating customers like moving targets) and "self serving bias" (Ford and Firestone blaming each other for tire safety issues). All rights reserved. As the authors note, "good intentions are not enough," and this guide provides a useful, easy-to-read antidote for our unwitting corruptibility. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly Examining the headline-making moral lapses at Enron, Tyco International, Adelphia, World Com and other less-than-ethical business locales in the light of numerous psychological experiments, clinical psychologist Hoyk and
Written with clarity and in a straight-forward, accessible style, it is a work I am pleased to recommend.Rhoda Rabinowitz-GreenAuthor, "Moon Over Mandalay"[]. Dr. I've made many recipes from this book, and every single one has been delicious. (gag me) and how her uncle Sherlock would do this or that. I have to use this book for my college Managerial Accounting course, but it is well written and there are enough questions at the back of each chapter to give a student enough practice to make the concepts real. And, most disarmingly, he levels with you about his own weaknesses regarding food while showing sympathy for yours. That's what this book is about. I've never read the diary of a non-Jewish German civilian written during that time period. Parker's blog, which is updated regularly. My main problem is that I don't believe the author. I really do think there are ways to generally explain math simply to people with mild interest only in the history, objective and general outline of the discipline without going through complex equations and diagrams. Admito que souGiven the increased scrutiny under which all executives and mangers operate today, this book is a 'must read' for anyone who is charged with achieving an organization's mission—whether that mission is increasing profit, serving the common good, or both.. Some of these traps distort our perception of right and wrong—so we actually believe our unethical behavior is right. Many of them are psychological in nature, and if we are not aware of them they are like illusions—webs of deception. In this book, Hoyk and Hersey describe 45 "unethical traps" into which any one of us can fall. These traps, they say, can erupt in any organizational environment. In the authors' analysis, these traps significantly contributed to the large-scale corporate disasters we witnessed in recent years.Hoyk and Hersey take account of these realities and offer a "real-world" method that will predict, preclude, and, if necessary, "get us out of" these traps
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