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Responsibility at Work: How Leading Professionals Act (or Don't Act) Responsibly

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Responsibility at Work will focus on how workers conceptualize and act upon their responsibilities at work. It examines creativity, drive, caring, and purpose as models for responsibility in the workplace. In addition, it shows that who you are and where you work affects your actions. Factors such as gender, spirituality, time, leadership, and professional standards play a part in an individuals ability to function at work. Gardner also explores the dysfunctions that can lead to compromised work and employee cynicism. Finally, the book provides strategies for cultivating responsibility in those at work and those who may enter the profession.

The areas of profession included in this study are:

Law
Medicine
K-12 Education
Journalism
Genetics
Theater
Business
Higher education
Philanthropy

The book will include chapters from William Damon (eminent developmental psychologist from Stanford University), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (author of Flow), Jeanne Nakamura (Drucker School professor and director of the Quality of Work Life Center at Claremont Graduate University) and other researchers from the Good Work Project at Harvard. Funders include the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Fetzer Institute, the Ford Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Louise and Claude Rosenberg Jr. Family Foundation, and the John Templeton Foundation.

Authors Bio:

HOWARD GARDNER is the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also holds positions as adjunct professor psychology at Harvard University, adjunct professor of neurology at Boston University, and senior director of Harvard Project Zero. Among numerous honors, he received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981, and the Grawemeyer Award in Education in 1990. He has received honorary degrees from twenty-one colleges and universities including institutions in Ireland, Italy, and Israel. In 2004, he was named an honorary professor of East China Normal University in Shanghai. In 2005, he was selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of the 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world. He was featured in the February 2006 issue of the Harvard Business Review with the #1 Breakthrough Idea (the ability to synthesize information). Gardner is the author of over 20 books translated into 24 languages. He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be assessed by standard psychometric instruments.

Contents:

Introduction.
Who is responsible for good work? (Howard Gardner).

PART ONE: POWERFUL MODELS OF RESPONSIBILITY).

1. Taking ultimate responsibility (William Damon and Kendall Bronk).

2. The ability to respond (Susan Verducci).

3. Creativity and responsibility (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jeanne Nakamura).

4. A call to serve: An exploration of humane creators (Wendy Fischman).

PART TWO: FACTORS THAT MODULATE RESPONSIBILITY).

5. A balancing act: How physicians and teachers manage time pressures and responsibility (Jeffrey Solomon).

6. Placing God before me: Spirituality and responsibility at work (Seth Wax).

7. Responsibility and leadership (Andreas Schröer).

8. Service at Work (Lynn Barendsen).

9. Beyond the gender stereotype: Responsibilities to self and others (Carrie James).

10. Control and responsibility: A Danish perspective on leadership (Hans Henrik Knoop).

PART THREE: THE LIMITS OF RESPONSIBILITY).

11. Constraining responsibility: Choices and compromises (Laura Horn and Howard Gardner).

12. Irresponsible Work (Howard Gardner).

Part Four: Toward Greater Responsibility).

13. Practicing responsibility (Jeanne Nakamura).

14. The GoodWork Toolkit: From Theory to Practice (Lynn Barendsen and Wendy Fischman).

Conclusion (Howard Gardner).

Index.

Summary:

Filled with original essays by Howard Gardner, William Damon, Mihaly Csikszenthmihalyi, and Jeanne Nakamura and based on a large-scale research project, the GoodWork Project, Responsibility at Work reflects the information gleaned from in-depth interviews with more than 1,200 people from nine different professionsjournalism, genetics, theatre, higher education, philanthropy, law, medicine, business, and pre-collegiate education. The book reveals how motivation, culture, and professional norms can intersect to produce work that is personally, socially, and economically beneficial. At the heart of the study is the revelation that the key to good work is responsilibiltytaking ownership for ones work and its wider impact.

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