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This book succinctly provides simple, straightforward advice for identifying ethical issues, making decisions, and establishing an organization's ethical culture. The book guides readers through relevant ethical concepts and helps them identify their personal ethical values. Timely organizational examples--such as Amazon's labor actions during COVID, fraud at HealthSouth and Theranos, and the rigging of the LIBOR rate--provide further organizational context. The authors avoid bogging down readers with the nuances of ethical concepts and present brief overviews of using stakeholder prioritization, weighing alternatives and consequences, and applying the Golden Rule. Those seeking greater detail will find the references to additional resources helpful. The target audience for this book, unique among books on business ethics and leadership, is anyone seeking practical guidance on setting ethical standards within an organization. The book also differs from others on business ethics by focusing on ways leaders can immediately implement ethical standards and helping them translate ethical ideas into actions. Leading with Values provides an effective roadmap for ethical leadership.Summing Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduates through faculty, professionals, and general readers.

Few people today can hope for a career with a single employer. Instead, workers are urged to draw on their passions and ever-evolving skill sets to navigate a precarious, all-consuming world of work. In this thoroughly researched book that draws on human relations and management texts, career guides, software protocols, and observation in workplaces and coworking spaces, Hong (communications, National Univ. of Singapore) examines the ways that passion promises to foster resilience and numb the boredom of routinized, heavily surveilled workplaces. Rich in examples, the book explores the gamification of routine tasks to make them more endurable, coworking spaces that enable freelancers and gig workers to reproduce the social networks and focus of traditional work environments, the pressure for constant reskilling, and the ways in which unemployment insurance blunts the edges of transitory work while disciplining those who do not quickly secure new positions. At the heart of the discourse of passion lies an assumption of necessity: people must be passionate about their work to have meaningful lives. Hong's conclusion suggests an alternative strategy: people distancing themselves from work and seeking fulfillment in other spheres of their lives. A vivid portrait of the changing expectations and emotions of contemporary work.Summing Up: Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.