You Want Me to Do What?: When, Where, and How to Draw the Line at Work
Author: Nan Demars
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ISBN: 068485046X
Publisher: Fireside (April, 1998)
Sales Rank: 142,192
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Very timely,very helpful-but too late for Clinton & Currie.
DeMars is practical, practical, practical. She tackles the most confudling dilemmas at work and provides an ethical compass to resolve them. You can always quit,but why not resolve the dilemmas and keep your job,too? I didn't always agree with her, but DeMars got me talking to my coworkers and my boss about what was the best solution-which was exactly DeMars' purpose for writing the book in the first place, I suspect. Yes, sometimes good employees do bad things--so here's what you do when it happens.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Very practical guide to resolving ethical dilemmas at work.
Bettie Currie, Fawn Hall, and Rosemary Woods needed this book. So did I. Lots of us face ethical choices that keep us up at night, or cause us to wince inside. DeMars uses lots of real-life examples to help us resolve the common dilemmas we find every day at work -- dilemmas about confidentiality, loyalty, office romance, harassment, information manipulation -- it's all here. She also coaches us about how to get the ethics discussion going -- without losing our jobs.
My favorite chapters were on lying (only very little lies told for social convention and very large lies told to save lives are OK) and "the trouble with the boss" (here's how to talk to him about his profanity, disrespect, lies, thievery, harassment, whatever). DeMars says high ethics boosts productivity and retention of customers and employees, then shows us how to have those long-overdue conversations about how we treat each other. A great book, period. I am so clear now about where I need to draw "that line" between what I will and will not do, and I am so confident about how to do it.
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