Recommended Resource List: Ethics

Materials indicated by call numbers may be found on site using the State Library's Online Catalog. All other sources may be acquired using the State Library's Interlibrary Loan Services. To request materials, state government employees should use the Kentucky Government Employee Materials Request form. To apply for a library card, State Government Employees should complete the online application.

• Audiobooks
  • Kreeft, Peter. Ethics: A History of Moral Thought. Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, 2004. Call number: SR CD 170 Kree
• Books
  • Badaracco, Joseph. Leading Quietly: an Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002. Call number: 658.4092 Bada
  • Beattie, Melody. Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter. [San Francisco]: Harper SanFrancisco, 2002. Call number: 170.44 Beat
  • Bennett, Mark D. A Field Guide to Good Decisions: Values in Action. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. Call number: 153.83 Benn
  • Ciulla, Joanne B. The Ethics of Leadership. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003. Call number: 174.4 Ciul
  • Cooper, Terry L. The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role. 5th ed. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2006. Call number: 172.2 Coop
  • DeMars, Nan. You Want Me to Do What? When, Where, and How to Draw the Line at Work. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. Call number: 174.4 DeMa
  • Frankfurt, Harry G. On Bullsh*t. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Call number: 177.3 Fran
  • Jennings, Marianne M. The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse: How to Spot Moral Meltdowns in Companies . . . Before It’s Too Late. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2006. Call number: 174.4 Jenn
  • Johnson, Craig E. Ethics in the Workplace: Tools and Tactics for Organizational Transformation. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2007. Call number: 174.4 John
  • Kidder, Rushworth M. How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living. New York: Fireside, 2003, c1995. Call number: 174 Kidd
  • Maxwell, John C. There’s No Such Thing as Business Ethics: There’s Only One Rule for Making Decisions. New York Warner Business Books, 2003. Call number: 174.4 Max
  • Seglin, Jeffrey L., Norman R. Augustine. The Good, the Bad, and Your Business: Choosing Right When Ethical Dilemmas Pull You Apart. New York: Wiley, 2000. Call number: 174.4 Segl
  • Trevino, Linda K. Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk about How to Do It Right. 4th ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2007. Call number: 174.4 Trev
• Videos
  • Character, Who Needs It? 26 min. Prager Productions/Mentor Media, 1996. Videocassette. Call number: VC 174.4 Char
  • Ethics 4 Everyone. 25 min. CRM Learning, 2003. Videocassette. Call number: VC 174.4 Ethi
  • Ethics: Surviving the Ethics Jungle. 29 min. Public Information Productions, 2002. Videocassette. Call number: VC 172.2 Ethi
  • L.E.A.D. with Integrity Promoting a Culture of Ethical Conduct and Compliance. 48 min. VisionPoint Productions, 2006. DVD. Call number: VC DV 174.4 Lead
• Websites
  • http://www.managementhelp.org/ethics/ethxgde.htm
    Complete Guide to Ethics Management: An Ethics Toolkit for Managers offers straightforward and highly practical tools designed to help leaders and managers implement comprehensive ethics management systems in their workplaces. This information is assembled by Carter McNamara, PhD for The Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits (St. Paul, MN). Last accessed on July 31, 2006.
  • http://www.mapnp.org/library/ethics/ethics.htm
    Business Ethics: Managing Ethics in the Workplace and Social Responsibility of the Free Management Library offers information on different perspectives of ethical decision making and managing ethics in the workplace. This information is assembled by Carter McNamara, PhD for The Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits (St. Paul, MN). Last accessed on July 31, 2006.