Young Professional's Survival Guide From Cab Fares to Moral Snares

Name: Young Professional's Survival Guide From Cab Fares to Moral Snares
Price: 16.97 USD
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ISBN: 9780674049444

ISBN-10: 0674049446

ISBN-13: 9780674049444

Edition: 2012

Authors: C. K. Gunsalus

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Imagine yourself in your new job, doing your best to make a good impression—and your boss asks you to do something that doesn’t feel right, like fudge a sales report, or lie to a customer. You have no idea how to handle the situation, and your boss is hovering. When you’re caught off guard, under pressure from someone more powerful, it’s easy to make a mistake. And having made one, it’s easier to rationalize the next one.The Young Professional’s Survival Guide shows how to avoid these traps in the first place, and how to work through them if you can’t avoid them. Many of the problems that arise in the workplace are predictable. C. K. Gunsalus, a nationally recognized expert on professional…

Book details

List price: $28.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/20/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 190
Size: 5.67" wide x 8.43" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

C. K. Gunsalus is Director of the National Center for Professional and Research Ethics in the College of Engineering and Professor Emerita in the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.



Prologue: Survive What?



Start As You Mean to Go On



Develop a Professional Persona



Why Things Go Wrong



How Things Go Right



How to Have a Dispute Professionally



Stay on the High Road and End Up Where You Mean to Be


Appendix


Practicing the And Stance


Personal Scripts Guidelines


The And Stance, with Possible Answers


Notes


Suggested Reading


Acknowledgments


Credits


Index