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When a New Leader takes Over: Toward Ethical Turnarounds takes a detailed look at the experiences of new leaders who are charged with turning an organization around following an ethical scandal. The challenges confronting new leaders who are tasked with restoring trust, rebuilding reputation, and turning around an organization following an ethical scandal are discussed along with specific actions taken by these leaders during the turnaround process. A main focus of the book is to offer insight into the difficult situations confronting new leaders at the beginning, during and after their turnaround experiences which means turning an unethical organizational culture into an ethical one. A number of examples of turnaround efforts that have taken place over the past two decades are included to provide the most comprehensive documentation of the ethical turnaround process. The book includes an in-depth look at what led to the unethical behavior by examining a number of real-world examples of ethical scandals from around the world. The book will provide an analysis of the various ethical scandals by focusing on concepts like unethical leadership, received wisdom, groupthink and moral silence, all of which contribute to the kind of organizational culture and unethical behavior one finds in organizations that experience ethical scandals. The book also discusses proactive leadership and its importance in implementing ethical turnarounds based on values-based leadership, employee involvement and ethics education. A main premise of this book is that new leaders can successfully create an organization environment to rebuild and institutionalize ethical behavior as part of the turnaround process and sustain ethical behavior beyond the turnaround. The book will be of interest to employees at all levels of an organization, business professionals and other practitioners and others who have an interest in organization change, transformation and ethical turnarounds

Cover -- Executive Ethics II -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Executive Ethics II -- CHAPTER 2: Crafting a Culture of Character -- CHAPTER 3: The C-Suite's Role in Countering Moral Muteness -- CHAPTER 4: Profit Profits! -- CHAPTER 5: Leadership Is What You Think It Is -- CHAPTER 6: The Law of Unintended Consequences and the Power of Contrarian Thinking -- CHAPTER 7: Ethical Leaders -- CHAPTER 8: Before and After an Ethical Fall

Ethical failures are rooted in leadership failure, the lack of a corporate culture in which ethical concerns have been integrated, and unresponsiveness to key organizational stakeholders. This book seeks to enhance our understanding of the causes of ethical debacles in an era when ethical missteps can often lead to corporate bankruptcies or worse. Sims offers practical solutions for mitigating damage and preventing such problems from happening in the first place. He also explains how to institutionalize ethics throughout an organization.||Sims asserts that organizations wishing to behave ethic

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Teaching Business Ethics for Effective Learning -- Chapter 2 What Should Be Taught in Business Ethics Efforts? -- Chapter 3 The Environment for Teaching Business Ethics: Obstacles and Issues -- Chapter 4 Who Should Teach Business Ethics? -- Chapter 5 Teaching Business Ethics for Effective Learning: Experiential Learning -- Chapter 6 Learning Environments and Experiential Learning Processes -- Chapter 7 Structuring and Delivering Business Ethics Teaching Efforts -- Chapter 8 Practical Approaches to Teaching Business Ethics -- Chapter 9 Moving into the Classroom: Developing the Climate for Teaching and Learning Business Ethics -- Chapter 10 Teaching Business Ethics: Dialogue, Good Moral Conversation, and Conversational Learning -- Chapter 11 Debriefing: Completing the Learning Process in Experiential Learning Exercises -- Chapter 12 Assessing the Impact of Business Ethics Teaching Efforts: A Total Quality Management and Student Outcomes Assessment Approach -- Chapter 13 Outcomes Assessment: Why Evaluate Your Business Ethics Teaching Efforts? -- Chapter 14 Successfully Teaching Business Ethics for Effective Learning -- Index.