Research Catalog

Title

Responsible communication : ethical issues in business, industry, and the professions / edited by James A. Jaksa, Michael S. Pritchard.

Publication

Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

• Jaksa, James A., 1931-
• Pritchard, Michael S.

Description

xiv, 402 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The Hampton Press communication series

Uniform Title

Hampton Press communication series.

Subjects

• Communication in organizations > Moral and ethical aspects
• Information technology > Moral and ethical aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction / James A. Jaksa and Michael S. Pritchard -- Pt. 1. Issues in Organizations. 1. Ethnics and the Study of Organizational Communication: When Will We Wake Up? / W. Charles Redding. 2. Ethical Tension Points in Whistleblowing / J. Vernon Jensen. 3. Ethics in Organizations: The Challenger Explosion / Ronald C. Kramer, James A. Jaksa and Michael S. Pritchard. 4. Ordinary Technical Decision Making: An Empirical Investigation / Michael Davis. 5. Communication Ethics and Computer Technology: The Case of Computer Monitoring / James A. Gilchrist and Paula Sikes Gilchrist -- Pt. 2. Communicating Risk. 6. Computer Ethics: The Responsible Professional / Michael S. Pritchard. 7. When Laws Are Not Enough: Ethical Criteria for Risk Communication / Maribeth S. Metzler. 8. Ethics and the Communication of Risk Technology / Mary Ann Renz. 9. High-Risk Technologies, Ethical Argument, and Engineers-in-Training / Susan Mallon Ross.
• 10. What it Means to "Make It": The Disclosure of Probable Life Quality to Parents of Infants Undergoing Life-Saving Treatments / Victoria Christie -- Pt. 3. Sharing and Controlling Information. 11. Chernobyl Revisited / James A. Jaksa and Michael S. Pritchard. 12. Owning and Controlling Technical Information / Vivian Weil. 13. Technological Transfer and Multinational Corporations in the Union Carbide Crisis Bhopal, India / Matthew W. Seeger and Barbara Bolz. 14. Cultures of Silence and Technological Development / Clifford G. Christians. 15. The Transnational Media Corporation: Cultural Trespass and Challenges to National Sovereignty / Richard A. Gershon -- Pt. 4. Educational Challenges. 16. Responsible Communication Between Engineers and Managers / Thomas Calero, Michael Davis and Vivian Weil. 17. Argumentation Instruction in the Face of Global Perils / Josina M. Makau. 18. Technicians of Goodness: Ignoring the Narrative Life of Dialogue / Ronald C. Arnett.
• 19. The Discourse of Reproductive Technology: The Implications of Surrogate Motherhood / Lea P. Stewart. 20. Ethical Consulting: Risk as a Function of State, Role, and Activity / Daniel J. Montgomery and Gary R. Herald.

ISBN

• 1572730544 (cl)
• 1572730552 (ppb)

LCCN

96028081

OCLC

• 34933279
• ocm34933279

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries