The Conscience Code: Lead with Your Values. Advance Your Career.
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ISBN: 9781400221134
Type: Paperback
The young professionals’ guide to respond effectively to ethical misconduct and achieve your greatest level of success without ever compromising your integrity.
The Conscience Code is based on Wharton School of Business professor G. Richard Shell’s countless interactions with MBA students, who bring him shocking stories of bosses pressuring them to participate in – and turn a blind eye toward – workplace corruption.
Forty-one percent of workers across a variety of industries reported seeing ethical misconduct in the past year alone. From corporate frauds and global bribery to bosses pressuring employees to engage in illicit sexual relations with clients, young professionals are often blindsided and unprepared by unprincipled demands, and then forced to make gut-wrenching choices between their paycheck and their values.
The Conscience Code shows that there is a third way: assume these conflicts are coming, learn how to recognize them, and follow a research-based, step-by-step approach to responding effectively.
The Conscience Code
Solves a crucial problem faced by young professionals: What should they do when they are asked to compromise their core values to achieve organizational goals?
Teaches readers how to recognize and overcome five pervasive forces pushing them toward misconduct: peer pressure, misguided authority, perverse incentives created by aggressive work goals, role expectations, and systemic corruption.
Provides a step-by-step, values-to-action process for business professionals at all levels to follow so they can maintain their integrity while advancing their careers.
Uses vivid case studies that show readers how conflicts can be resolved successfully using the principles and methods outlined in the book.
Driven by vivid examples from Shell’s classroom, today’s headlines, and classic cases of corporate wrongdoing, The Conscience Code shows how moral courage can meet and overcome corruption. The book presenting an essential roadmap for taking on toxic bosses and creating values-based workplaces where everyone can thrive.
