Just a Job? - George Cheney

The concept of 'professionalism' has gained everyday resonance in the twenty-first century especially given recent corporate scandals. However George Cheney argues as much as it may be discussed professionalism has lost much of its broader social and community-related implications as the trends of careerism consumerism and contingent employment have challenged and eroded collective senses of professional responsibility. In addition professionalism has become depoliticized even as it has continued to manifest certain racial class-oriented and gender biases in many contexts. In Professional Ethics Cheney will explore everyday practices in contemporary professional ethics. Specifically he analyzes the broad patterns of our talk about 'being a professional' in contemporary industrialized societies and in global elite networks. Above all he aims to produce a thematically unified theoretically informed and accessibly written account of the ways we understand not only specific ethical issues at work (e.g. advance notification of corporate layoffs or conflicts of interest in commerce and politics) but also the ways we frame professional ethics today. Throughout Cheney passionately describes the limited roles and absences of ethics in professional decisions and behavior today and lays out the groundwork for a resurrection of professional citizenship. This volume should appeal to practicing managers academics and upper-division and graduate students in communication and business ethics.

TITLE: Just a Job?

AUTHOR: George Cheney

SKU: 9780195182781

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press Inc

DATE PUBLISHED: 30/04/2009

PLACE PUBLISHED: United States

PAGES: 312

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 158 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm

WEIGHT: 501 gr