Meaningful Work: Rethinking Professional Ethics

by Mike W. Martin

Book Overview

As commonly understood, professional ethics consists of shared duties and episodic dilemmas--the responsibilities incumbent on all members of specific professions joined together with the dilemmas that arise when these responsibilities conflict. Martin challenges this "consensus paradigm" as he rethinks professional ethics to include personal commitments and ideals, of which many are not mandatory. Using specific examples from a wide range of professions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195133250
• ISBN13: 9780195133257
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Work Life Balance

In these times, we need to turn back to some of our basic business ethics. This is a wonderful and in depth book which I think introduces a healthy, more holistic approach to work, as opposed to a compartmentalized, unbalanced approach which may be harmful long-term.