It's about Excellence: Building Ethically Healthy Organizations - Paperback

by David W. Gill (Author)

It's About Excellence: Building Ethically Healthy Organizations For too many businesses and their leaders today, business ethics is just about staying out of jail. Litigation, indictment, and penal system avoidance is not just the first but the only reason they think ethics is important. It's about damage control. It's not by accident that these damage control ethics programs are generally under the guidance of legal and compliance departments. Of course companies need a damage control, crisis management, trouble-shooting component in their ethics and management toolbox. But if that's all there is, something of critical business value is missing. It's About Excellence tells the larger story. Ethics is about identifying and pursuing excellence and business achievement. It's about getting clear on an inspiring corporate mission and vision, building a value-embedded culture, and pursuing principle-guided practices. Ethics is not a patch-and-repair add-on here; it's something woven through the whole organization, created and owned by the whole workforce.

Author Biography

David W. Gill is a veteran business ethics educator, writer, and consultant. Among his clients have been Harris & Associates (construction and project management), East Bay Municipal Utility District (regional water district), Paradise Foods (retail grocer), Nikon Precision (technology), Swedish Covenant Hospital (health care), and UNext.com (online business education). For these and other clients, Gill provides ethics training and leads projects to develop ethics and values statements and codes, communication, training, and assessment programs. He was educated at UC Berkeley (B.A.), San Francisco State (M.A.), and the University of Southern California (Ph.D.) and has been a professor of ethics for three decades, currently at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.