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Books: Value Shift: Why Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives

Subject: Ethics
Source: Lynn Sharp Paine
Description: Harvard Business School professor Lynn Sharp Paine had been
studying corporate malfeasance long before the Enron debacle. In her forthcoming
book, Value Shift: Why Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to
Achieve Superior Performance, she attempts to introduce readers to an "emerging
new standard of corporate performance one that encompasses both moral and
financial dimensions." Based on her researching, teaching and consulting
experiences over the past 20 years, Paine has amassed an in-depth understanding
of corporate values. She uses examples culled from these experiences to explain
the growing emphasis on values, why this changing attitude is important and what
the shift means for managers. She ends the book with advice for managers on
setting up an organizational infrastructure, hiring employees whose views align
with a company's value system and more. This is an important book for
ethics-minded managers.

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posted by Victor Lloyd Smith @ 2:27 PM