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Responsibility at Work: How Leading Professionals Act (or Don't Act) Responsibly
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Sep 2007, Pages: 368
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.
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