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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Banks McDowell |
| ISBN: | 1567203868 9781567203868 |
| OCLC Number: | 43246096 |
| Description: | ix, 169 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: The Ethical Crisis? -- Responsibility and Excuses -- Ethical Excuses -- Law and Ethics: The Different Systems -- Defenses: The Legal Excuses -- The Fallibility of Human Beings -- The Informal Moral Codes -- The Need to Reformulate Ethical Expectations -- The Professional and the Market--Is Efficiency the Predominant Value? -- The Responsibility of Others toward the Excuse Giver: The Need for Dialogue. |
| Responsibility: | Banks McDowell. |
Abstract:
Examines the excuses professionals make when accused of acting unethically, and asks when they are valid and when not. This study of excuses aims to provide a challenging way to think about the nature of ethical problems in the professions and to suggest ways of solving them.
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.,."Ethics and Excuses is a thought provoking and stimulating look into a basic, yet overlooked, reality of our day-to-day lives."-Personnel Psychology
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