Interactive Ethics

How Ethical and Unethical Decisions Are REALLY Made in Organizations, 2nd Edition

by Thomas H. Schear, Ph.D.

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Synopsis

This text is designed to appeal to individuals in academic, governmental, business, health care, and various other professions. It describes the organizational and individual factors that come into play when ethical issues are confronted in organizations. It does not prescribe how to make ethical decisions but rather describes how either ethical or unethical decisions are made, providing information about the pitfalls, barriers and circumstances that may tend to lead towards unethical outcomes while proposing how an organization can increase its odds of consistently arriving at ethical ones.

About The Author

Thomas H. Schear has worked in the human services field since 1977. In that time he has been a front-line counselor, clinical supervisor and program director. In addition to this work teaching college-level courses in psychology, sociology and in particular ethics have given him the opportunity to help those entering various professions to think about how they see themselves, relate to others and their workplace as they live out their lives. For the past decade, Dr. Schear has been providing continuing education opportunities for counselor and therapists assisting them in improving their knowledge and skills. Through one of his websites (http://www.ccmsinc.net) he provides ethics consulting/ training based on this book and coaching/consulting services for small businesses and private non-profit organizations through his website http://www.ccmsinc.org.

Dr. Schear current lives in a small rural town in north central Iowa where he lives with his artist wife, Kathy and his dog Solo.