Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet

Howard E. Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon

Basic Books, Aug 1, 2008 - Business & Economics - 304 pages

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.

Contents

• Good Work in Difficult Times: 4
• The Conditions of Good Work: 16
• Early Attempts to Shape Bodies and Minds: 38
• Genetics in the Limelight: 56
• A Golden Age in a WellAligned Domain: 74
• Storm Clouds in Genetics: 92
• Power Gained and Debased in the News Media: 126
• Sources of Strength in Journalism: 154
• Good Work in Journalism Today: 180
• Information About the Good Work Project: 256
• Methods for Studying Good Work: 258
• Journalism Interview Protocol: 262
• Genetics Interview Protocol: 266
• Index: 277

Popular passages

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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 honors, 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet
• Authors: Howard E. Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon
• Publisher: Basic Books, 2008
• ISBN: 0786723386, 9780786723386
• Length: 304 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / General