Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
The essential guide to standing up for your values at work. Protect your integrity by committing to The Conscience Code.
A fast-track colleague elbowing their way up the corporate ladder in your organization is faking their sales reports. Your entrepreneur boss asks you to lie to would-be investors. The team leader is a serial sexual harasser. What should you do? Nobody prepared you for this part of professional life. You face a gut-wrenching choice: "go along to get along" or risk your job by speaking up for what you know is right.
At the Wharton School of Business, MBA students have shared all these stories, and many more, with award-winning Professor G. Richard Shell. They want to stay true to themselves but fear the consequences of speaking up--for their families, office relationships and, ultimately, their careers. They are not alone. Surveys show that more than 40% of employees report seeing ethical misconduct at work, and most fail to report it--killing office morale and allowing the wrong people to set the example.
Shell created The Conscience Code to point to a better path: recognize that these conflicts are coming, learn to spot them, then follow a research-based, step-by-step approach for resolving them skillfully. By committing to the Code, you can replace regret with long-term career success as a leader of conscience.
The Conscience Code
- Solves a crucial problem faced by professionals everywhere: What should they do when they are asked to compromise their core values to achieve organizational goals?
- Teaches readers to recognize and overcome the five organizational forces that push people toward actions they later regret.
- Lays out a systematic, values-to-action process that people at all levels can follow to maintain their integrity while achieving true success in their lives and careers.
Driven by dramatic, real-world examples from Shell's classroom, today's headlines, and classic cases of corporate wrongdoing, The Conscience Code shows how to create value-based workplaces where everyone can thrive.
Synopsis
The Conscience Code is a practical guide to creating workplaces where everyone can thrive.
Surveys show that more than 40% of employees report seeing ethical misconduct at work, and most fail to report it--killing office morale and allowing the wrong people to set the example. Collegiate professor G. Richard Shell has heard work misconduct stories from his MBA students which inspired him to create this helpful guide for navigating these nuances.
Shell created?this book?to point to a better path: recognize that these conflicts are coming, learn to spot them, then follow a research-based, step-by-step approach for resolving them skillfully.?By committing to the Code, you can replace regret with long-term career success as a leader of conscience.
In The Conscience Code, Shell shares tips and facts that:
- Solves a crucial problem faced by professionals everywhere: What should they do when they are asked to compromise their core values to achieve organizational goals?
- Teaches readers to recognize and overcome the five organizational forces that push people toward actions they later regret.
- Lays out a systematic, values-to-action process that people at all levels can follow to maintain their integrity while achieving true success in their lives and careers.
Driven by dramatic, real-world examples from Shell's classroom, today's headlines, and classic cases of corporate wrongdoing, The Conscience Code shows how to create value-based workplaces where everyone can thrive.