The Right Thing: An Everyday Guide to Ethics in Business - Softcover

Bibb, Sally

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047068853X ISBN 13: 9780470688533

Publisher: Wiley, 2010

Synopsis

Trust in business is at an all-time low, but more people than ever claim that working for an ethical company matters to them.  Something has to change.  But in a everyday working environment, ethics often seem abstract and hard to grasp. 

The Right Thing is here to help, as leading business consultant Sally Bibb gives you simple steps to make sure that you’re working ethically.  The book features:

• Simple explanations of big ethical ideas
• Case studies to bring ethics to life, and show how bad it can be when ethics go wrong
• Tips on everything from ethical leadership to creating an ethical culture
• Checklists – so you can make sure you’re doing the right thing

About this title

About the Author

Sally Bibb is a business consultant, writer and speaker. She runs two consultancies, Talent Smoothie, which focuses on developing talent in leaders and teams, and Engaging Minds, which looks at issues of employee engagement.
Until 2007, she was a Director at the Economist Group. Her career has spanned HR operations, recruitment, employee relations, learning and development and change management. She has an MSc in Organisational Change from the University of Surrey. She is also a member of the CIPD, an Associate of the Corporate Research Forum, a qualified NLP Practitioner, an Erikson trained coach, and MBTI certified.
Sally is the author of several successful business books, including A Question of Trust (with Jeremy Kourdi, 2007), Management F/Laws (with Russ Ackoff & Herb Addison (2006), The Stone Age Company (2005), Trust Matters (2004 – winner of an MCA award) and The Rookies Guide to Generation Y (2009).  She has also edited the Truth about Business series.

Review

practical advice about how best to encourage the right kind of attitude giving some interesting figures on the subject . (September 2010). A useful, commonsense guide includes simples explanations of big ethical ideas . (Fybe Uncovered, November, 2010) . a comprehensive reference on ethics in business for the modern professional all you need to know about ethics in business. (Supply Management.com, November 2010). Bibb s arguments are not only insightful but are delivered in an engaging fashion, with informative anecdotes, examples and practical tools. (HR, January 2011). quite exceptional. I commend it most highly to anyone in business, in any role. (HRZone.co.uk, February 2011).

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 047068853X
• ISBN 13: 9780470688533
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232