Human Values and Ethics in the Workplace

This book presents a framework for understanding human values and their role in life work business and leadership. It offers an explanation for the spectrum of human behaviour from a self-focused survivalist mindset that has scant regard for ethics through to compliance with laws and conventions and then to the aspiration to live a higher ethical and spiritual life. The book offers a practical guide on how to develop a more ethical way of working and being both personally and in organisations. Rather than being an additional burden on people or organisations ethics and values are a liberating force enabling higher performance better quality relationships and an expanded sense of purpose and identity.