The Seven Layers of Integrity(R)

by George P. Jones and June Ferrill

"Can you teach people to behave ethically?" That's the question being asked by business leaders and business school administrators across America as our country witnesses a wave of financial scandals. The Seven Layers of Integrity(R) both answers that question and provides a model that serves as a learning tool and a decision-making mechanism. The authors believe people can be taught to behave ethically - and they start by examining the reason...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1420866842
• ISBN13: 9781420866841
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Rigorous Thought About Ethical Conduct

This is an exceptionally valuable and useful book. Despite the outrage and turmoil caused in recent years by corporate scandals, many people, including highly trained and responsible people, do not know how to think about their own ethical conduct and do not know that they don't. Often their professional education includes only cursory and perfunctory training, if that, on the codes of professional ethics that apply to them. They believe that since they are moral and ethical people they will know what is the right thing to do and will do it. This is a snare and a delusion. The right thing to do is often counter-intuitive and difficult to figure out, and errors can be catastrophic. The beauty of this book is that it provides a framework for systematic thought about the dilemmas of ethical conduct, not only those presented by ethical codes, but also those presented by conflicts between a person's professional obligations and his own personal ethical beliefs. Anyone who absorbs the authors' lessons can face these dilemmas without panic. The book would be an outstanding text for courses on professional ethical conduct, but would also repay close reading by anyone, in or outside of a course.

Thought-Provoking, Highly Relevant For Business Today

The Seven Layers of Integrity offers a clear thought-process that takes individuals and business people beyond the typical discussion of ethical behavior. This book presents seven logical steps for teaching people to think in terms of the variety business-related, environmental and emotional dilemmas they will face in behaving ethically. Additionally, it openly demonstrates that decisions on how to respond to these dilemmas are not always black and white. Authors George Jones and June Ferrill, Ph.D. use their long and varied professional experiences, and well-known and documented case studies to present a balanced and compellingly fresh and highly personal approach to behaving ethically. This is a quick and very important read for people at all levels of business - whether corporate or entrepreneurial.