Essentials of Business Ethics

The essential guide to creating an organization ofhigh integrity
and superior performance

With the high-profile corporate scandals that have taken place
in recent years, corporate ethics are more important to a business
than ever before. The failure of ethical leadership in an
organization is very destructive-it demoralizes the workforce,
breeds public distrust, and ultimately results in organizational
decay.

Based on more than two decades of consulting, teaching, and
research, Denis Collins's Essentials of Business Ethics is
designed with appreciation for your demanding professional
obligations, with easy-to-find, at-your-fingertips information. Its
nuts-and-bolts presentation provides you with practical "how-to"
examples and best practices on every area of managing ethics inside
your organization in a handy, concise format.

This brief yet powerful guide presents executives and leaders
with timely discussion on:

* Human nature and unethical behavior in organizations

* Determining the ethics of job candidates

* The differences between a Code of Ethics and a Code of
Conduct

* The best practices for managing diversity

* Using Management-by-Objectives to establish work goals that
encourage ethical behavior

* Performance appraisals that reward ethical behaviors

* Aligning community outreach with the company's mission and
assets

* Handling the environmental change process

* How to manage three internal communication mechanisms for
employees to report potentially unethical or illegal behaviors: an
Ethics & Compliance Office, Ombudsman, and Ethics
Hotlines

Providing a five-step ethics job-screen process and an ethical
decision-making framework, as well as guidelines for conducting a
variety of business ethics workshops, Essentials of Business
Ethics is the only guide you will need containing all the
relevant facts on business ethics, all in one place.