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Making Good : How Young People Cope with Moral Dilemmas at Work
Making Good How Young People Cope with Moral Dilemmas at Work Author:Wendy Fischman, Howard Gardner, Deborah Greenspan, Becca, M.A. Solomon You're young, ambitious, entering the field of your dreams; you're on your own, the competition is fierce—and then you see your chance: the big story, the big role, the big discovery. But you'll have to cut a few corners, bend the rules, cheat a bit. What choices will you make? After studying more than a hundred young people launching th... more »eir careers, these longtime researchers of "good work"—work that is both skillful and honorable—find unsettling answers. Although young workers know what it takes to do good work, they don't always feel they can follow the ethical route. "Later, when I'm successful," is their implicit promise. "As a member of one of the professions explored in Making Good, I found this work accurate—and alarming. Howard Gardner and his colleagues are best known for their writings about the many varieties of intelligence, but their recent provocative explorations of the meanings of work may prove equally important. I recommend this book to anyone concerned about how institutions can attract and support honorable future leaders." —James Fallows, author of Breaking the News« less