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Summary : Managing business ethicsLinda K. Trevino & Katherine A. Nelson. Wiley; 5th edition

Chapter 4 – Addressing individuals’ common ethical problems

Ethical issue when people work together (privacy, discrimination, sexual harassment or simply how people get along. Key is fairness meaning equity, reciprocity, impartiality
- Equitable is when something is divided between 2 people according to the worth & inputs of the 2 individuals. Most people think it’s unfair when 2 people have performed the same duty but receive a different share of the reward
- Reciprocity: “if you do this for me I’ll do this for you”. Most ppl think it’s unfair if ...

Patrick Murphy’s leadership style focused greatly on accountability; he wanted to make sure people were held responsible for their actions and those under them. (p. 33). When Murphy took over the police force, he “considered himself a reform agent,” deciding he needed to clean house to get rid of the ghosts that were rampant in Leary’s tenure as commissioner. Believing that there was too much splintering and division within the department, he sought to bring everyone back together and eliminate this sort of waste.

Murphy also took special effort to curb corruption any way he could; he opted ...

Please Do Not Just Do What I Tell You, Do What Needs to Be Done (Bob Nelson)

The book by Bob Nelson thrives to give morale to employees and educate them on the best ways they could be successive in the places of work. This book is like a handbook designed for employees who seem to be frustrated at their places of work. This book educates the employees of four critical issues: reasons as to why employees should always seek initiative; why the employees should seek to do more at work that is required of them; giving a tip to the employees on the benefits of volunteering at work; most importantly how to develop, plan and implement good ...

The business community is anchored on profitability and to this end companies implement a variety of strategies. The book “strategy for sustainability: A business manifesto” by Adam Werbach tries to prove to the business community that though sustainability programs may usurp some resources, they will in the long run increase the profitability of the business.

The book “strategy for sustainability: A business manifesto” explores the business strategies that companies need to pursue in order to maintain profitability and sustain the environment, address climate change concerns and social issues such as poverty. According to Werbach (2009), business strategies without ...

Analysis - Smartest Kid in the World

Analysis - Smartest Kid in the World

Introduction

In the recent years, the performance and the attention given to the public education in the United States have been jaded, and the system is not performing well. It is important to note here that the government and other education agencies have put in a lot of effort and money in order to fix the education system but there have been no dramatic results despite of numerous attempts to bringing in education reforms since the past 20 years. As compared to other countries, the United States have spent more on the public education ...

This is a book report on “Everyday life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside. The text is a collection of many different articles by authors who were based in Russia in the early 1930’s. This was the period right after the Russian revolution in which the Bolsheviks emerged as victors. As they exercised their authority, they attempted to implement different new strategies which were interpreted by different citizens in different ways. The collection of articles best explain how the different categories of citizens adopted to their changing way of life.
The first aspect of the collection of ...

The September 11, 2001 (9/11) terrorist attack in the United States of America has brought this common and urgent query if the country is safe to all the citizens who live in for a better living. Asking this question is wrong; America is still a safe place to everyone. It is safer since the government has a massive increased in homeland security and the expenditures are high. The best and correct query is that, if the expenditures in the security have its worth. Howard Kunreuther, analyst, raised the central question after the 9/11 terrorist attack that how much do the government is ...

“The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs” by Ilardi (2009) is a self-help book for people who suffer from depression that helps them make lifestyle changes associated with improvements in depression scores. The book is divided into three sections, which include understanding depression, therapeutic lifestyle change, and making the change. In understanding depression, the author begins with describing a case study of a patient he had personally treated for depression. Of course, it is noted that names throughout the books were changed to protect the patient-therapist privacy while allowing the author to build trust and expertise by writing ...

McMinn, M. R. Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling. Revised ed. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2011. Print.

Summary

In Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling, Mark McMinn (2011) presents his view that Christian counseling does not merely involve psychology and theology. He emphasizes that we should not merely consider the interdisciplinary approach in itself, rather the inclusion of spirituality must also be considered. To make Christian counseling an intradisciplinary approach, both the counselor and the client must be involved. McMinn believes that a client cannot become spiritually mature unless the counselor is spiritually mature as well. Before the ...