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A volume in Ethics in Practice
Series Editors Robert A. Giacalone, Temple University
and Carole L. Jurkiewicz, Louisiana State University
Making sure that performance in business enterprise is achieved ethically is no small
task. Leaders, managers, and employees at every level of the organization need to utilize systems
and processes that support ethical strength, establishing a workplace where responsibility,
accountability, and doing the right thing are genuinely valued and practiced. Management can
help support ethical performance in workers' daily task actions by underscoring the importance
of rules and regulations, while also moving to ensure that employees understand and care about
doing what's right. Given that most firms only emphasize compliance in ethics training, there is
vast room for additional development. Training people to be less bad is not good enough. With
the infusion of mandatory requirements for ethics training programs in some firms and self-imposed initiatives in others, we see a range
of deliverables. To advance ethics in practice, a closer look at ethics training in the workplace is warranted.
This volume attempts to better understand ethics in organizational settings by taking a focused look at the science of ethics
training and best practices, areas for concern, specific techniques, application outcomes, how to cultivate an ethical work environment,
and considering where opportunities for additional inquiry reside. Managers and practitioners reading this book will garner specific
trends and useful techniques that can inform, guide, and improve their efforts to build ethical awareness and effective ethical decisionmaking
within their organizations. Academic scholars will find this book useful, providing insight as to where additional research and
empirical work is needed.
About the author
Leslie E. Sekerka, Menlo College, USA
