Recommended Reading
If you're interested in stocking your personal and professional library with things to read that relate to ethics and work, please consider the choices below. You'll find that they're affordable, readable, and we'll continue to update this list so that you have access the the latest and best in the field.
Also see our Amazon.com Suggests page for a list of additional titles recommended by Amazon.com's search on "business ethics".
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Business and Ethics
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Harvard Business Review on Corporate Ethics
In deciding how to act, managers reveal their inner values, test their commitment to those values, and ultimately shape their characters. Readers of this collection of articles will learn to identify the theoretical and practical issues of recognizing and responding to ethical dilemmas and will find the link between good ethics and good business. |
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How Good People Make Tough Choices : Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
We frequently face ethical dilemmas in our daily lives, and few have trouble with the “right vs. wrong” choices. However, the “right vs. right” dilemmas, in which neither choice is clearly or widely accepted as wrong, many times present obstacles that call for value-based decisions, and that’s where we often need help. |
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Business as a Calling:
Work and the Examined Life
This book explains an important part of our lives in a new way, and readers will instantly recognize themselves in its pages. A larger proportion than ever before of the world's Christians, Jews, and other peoples of faith are spending their working lives in business. In this ground-breaking and inspiring book, Michael Novak ties together these crucial questions by explaining the meaning of work as a vocation. Work should be more than just a job -- it should be a calling. |
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Media and Entertainment
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
In this book, Marshall McLuhan coined the often misused phrase, "the medium is the message". Intended in 1964 to challenge traditional perceptions of the media, McLuhan presented a revolutionary and emphatic view of the relationship between human beings and the machinery of communication that remains startlingly relevant in today's "connected" society. |
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