You've Got To Be Kidding!: How to Keep Your Job Without Losing Your Integrity

Introduction Why Do We Care about Ethics in the Workplace?: Are We Really That Vulnerable? More than Ever Today!

PART I: Take Care of Yourself.

1 When Morals Become Ethics: Your Beliefs Become Your Behaviors.

2 The Age of Accountability: The "My Boss Told Me to Do It" Defense Is No Defense!

3 The Twin Faces of Loyalty: The "New Loyalty" at Work Is a Two-Way Street.

4 True Myths? It Depends!: Let's See Things as They Really Are—Not as WeWant Them to Be!

5 Mea Culpa—I Screwed Up!: How to Recover from a Major Goof-Up!

PART II: Take Care of Your Organization.

6 Zip It!: A Culture of Confidentiality Is Your Goal!

7 Security Is Your Problem (Like It or Not)!: You Are the Gatekeeper of Company Assets.

8 Gossip Over the Cubicle Fence: Gossip Can Tear Apart the Ethical Office.

9 Cupid in the Cubicle: Dangers of the "Triple R".

10 Party Up—or Party Down?: The Worst Hangover May Come with a Lawsuit!

11 Trick or Treat: Vendors Can Be Tricksters, and They Wear Many Masks.

12 Copyright or Copy Wrong?: There Are Boundaries around Intellectual Property.

13 To Blow or Not to Blow: If You Blow the Whistle, Blow Wisely!!

PART III: Take Care of Your Supervisor.

14 The Trouble with the Boss—Is the Boss!

15 The Dog Ate My Laptop: Lies, Lies—and More Lies!

16 The XXX Files: The Workplace Is No Place for Porn!

17 Abuse in the Workplace: If It Hurts, It's Abuse—and If It Happens More than Once, It's Harassment!

PART IV: You Can Keep Your Integrity and Your Job.

18 Raises, Not Roses!: Today’s Professional Assistant Has New Respect!

19 The Ethics of Job Hunting: How to Look for a Job While on the Job!

20 Start Talking!: Everyone Chooses the Ethics of Their Office—Not Just Upper Management and Obvious Victims.

21 Doing the Right Thing Never Looked So Right!: At the End of the Day, You Go Home with Yourself!

Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

Index.