Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet - Softcover

Gardner, Howard E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465026087 ISBN 13: 9780465026081

Publisher: Basic Books, 2002

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2002 08 Pages: 304 in Publisher: Basic Books This groundeaking book reveals how professionals succeed in carrying out work that is both expert and socially responsible in relentlessly market-driven times by three world-renowned psychologists. What does it mean to carry out good work What strategies allow people to maintain moral and ethical standards at a time when market forces wield unprecedented power and work life is being radically altered by technological innovation These are the questions at the heart of this important collaboration by three leaders in psychology. Enlivened with stories of real people facing hard decisions. Good Work offers powerful insight into one of the most important issues of our time and. indeed. into the future course of science. technology. and communication.

About this title

About the Author:

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honours, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is professor of psychology and education at the University of Chicago. He is the author of a number of books, including the bestselling Flow, The Evolving Self, Creativity, and Being Adolescent.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0465026087
• ISBN 13: 9780465026081
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308