Morality and the Professional Life: Values at Work

Unique in perspective, this book offers a comprehensive values-based approach to professional ethics that is sensitive to the primary ethical issues of the workplace and that offers a positive way for dealing with these issues. It focuses on values important to all professionals and on how people do their work, not what type of work they do, and recognizes the strengths of various moral theories and the ways to harmonize as many moral values as possible. Readings (from literature, philosophy, and the professional ethics canon), exercises, and cases offer numerous opportunities for practice in interpreting values and applying them to the workplace. MORALITY AND THE PROFESSIONAL LIFE. What Professions and Professionals Are. What Morality Is. What Professional Ethics Is. Moral Reasons and Explanations. Moral Theories. Moral Analysis and Case Solving. VALUES AT WORK. Integrity. Respect for Persons. Justice. Compassion. Beneficence and Nonmaleficence. Responsibility. For all professionals.

Customer Reviews:

makes me want to cry

By MTA - August 29, 2011

This book is so poorly written and wordy it makes me want to cry. I bought it as a requirement for a Proff. Ethics course, however I would not recommend any instructor or person ever try to read this book.
What a poor attempt at writing and editing. I would be ashamed if my name were listed on the cover.
The authors are overly wordy, have bad sentence structure, and often make contradicting statements. I have to wonder how they even graduated highschool.

Poorly edited

By missvix "Namaste!" - June 24, 2011

Too wordy, poorly written and poorly edited. Lots of careless spelling errors and sentence structure errors. The professor talked trash about this book, and was always making apologies for the authors' mistakes. Bottom line, I had to have it for class, but other than that, I wouldn't buy it again.