Excerpted from HR Magazine
August 2005
By Linda Wasmer Andrews

The Nexus of Ethics

Excerpt:
Many experts say a person's ethics on and off the job can't be separated - and there are ways to get a pretty clear picture of how a person really behaves.

A number of ethicists and psychologists have begun challenging the cherished notion that we can keep our private selves and work selves separate. "We'd like to think there's a crisp line that divides the behaviors we do outside of work and those we engage in at work," says David Gebler, president of Working Values, a business ethics and training company in Sharon, Mass. But Gebler and others say the line is growing increasingly blurry.

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