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Responsibility at Work focuses 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 individual’s 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:
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Law
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Medicine
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K-12 Education
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Journalism
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Genetics
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Theater
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Business
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Higher education
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Philanthropy
The book includes 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.
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