You’ve Got To Be Kidding!

What to do when you're caught in the middle of an ethical dilemma at work In today's super-stressed workplace, an ethical dilemma can come at you when you least expect it. Here's how to do the right thing without losing your integrity?or your job. You've GOT To Be Kidding will help you create an ethics-based workplace that's a joy to work in. This isn't the usual top-down, executive-only manual, but an approach to workplace ethics that's as relevant and accessible to employees as it is to managers and executives. From renowned workplace educator and author of You Want Me To Do What?, this book is filled with recognizable examples ripped from today's headlines that put ethical principles in concrete terms. Filled with recognizable examples that put ethical principles in concrete terms Covers such topics as topics as loyalty, confidentiality, security, office romance, harassment, social networking at work, harassment, workplace bullying, lying for your boss, and even Internet mischief A practical manual for assessing, discussing, and resolving ethical dilemmas in the workplace With employees at all levels being held more accountable than ever before, You've GOT To Be Kidding gives businesses of all types and sizes a winning set of principles and practices to do business at the highest ethical level and serves as a guide for anyone who wants to do the right thing without losing their integrity or their job.

What to do when you're caught in the middle of an ethicaldilemma at workIn today's super-stressed workplace, an ethical dilemma can comeat you when you least expect it. Here's how to do the right thingwithout losing your integrity?or your job. You've GOT To Be Kiddingwill help you create an ethics-based workplace that's a joy to workin. This isn't the usual top-down, executive-only manual, but anapproach to workplace ethics that's as relevant and accessible toemployees as it is to managers and executives. From renownedworkplace educator and author of You Want Me To Do What?, this bookis filled with recognizable examples ripped from today's headlinesthat put ethical principles in concrete terms.* Filled with recognizable examples that put ethical principlesin concrete terms* Covers such topics as topics as loyalty, confidentialitysecurity, office romance, harassment, social networking at workharassment, workplace bullying, lying for your boss, and evenInternet mischief* A practical manual for assessing, discussing, and resolvingethical dilemmas in the workplaceWith employees at all levels being held more accountable thanever before, You've GOT To Be Kidding gives businesses of all typesand sizes a winning set of principles and practices to do businessat the highest ethical level and serves as a guide for anyone whowants to do the right thing without losing their integrity or theirjob.

Preface xvIntroduction Why Do We Care about Ethics in the Workplace?: AreWe Really That Vulnerable? More than Ever Today! xixPART ITake Care of Yourself1 When Morals Become Ethics: Your Beliefs Become Your Behaviors32 The Age of Accountability: The "My Boss Told Me to DoIt" Defense Is No Defense! 163 The Twin Faces of Loyalty: The "New Loyalty" atWork Is a Two-Way Street 304 True Myths? It Depends!: Let's See Things as They ReallyAre--Not as WeWant Them to Be! 505 Mea Culpa--I Screwed Up!: How to Recover from a MajorGoof-Up! 62PART IITake Care of Your Organization6 Zip It!: A Culture of Confidentiality Is Your Goal! 737 Security Is Your Problem (Like It or Not)!: You Are theGatekeeper of Company Assets 918 Gossip Over the Cubicle Fence: Gossip Can Tear Apart theEthical Office 1139 Cupid in the Cubicle: Dangers of the "Triple R"12110 Party Up--or Party Down?: The Worst Hangover May Comewith a Lawsuit! 13511 Trick or Treat: Vendors Can Be Tricksters, and They Wear ManyMasks 14112 Copyright or Copy Wrong?: There Are Boundaries aroundIntellectual Property 14813 To Blow or Not to Blow: If You Blow the Whistle, BlowWisely!! 158PART IIITake Care of Your Supervisor14 The Trouble with the Boss--Is the Boss! 16915 The Dog Ate My Laptop: Lies, Lies--and More Lies!18516 The XXX Files: The Workplace Is No Place for Porn! 20417 Abuse in the Workplace: If It Hurts, It'sAbuse--and If It Happens More than Once, It'sHarassment! 209PART IVYou Can Keep Your Integrity and Your Job18 Raises, Not Roses!: Today's Professional Assistant HasNew Respect! 23119 The Ethics of Job Hunting: How to Look for a Job While on theJob! 24320 Start Talking!: Everyone Chooses the Ethics of TheirOffice--Not Just Upper Management and Obvious Victims 25321 Doing the Right Thing Never Looked So Right!: At the End ofthe Day, You Go Home with Yourself! 264Acknowledgments 279About the Author 281Index 283