Establishing Workplace Integrity: Six Lessons in Values Based Leadership

Companies like Theranos, Enron, and the Bernie L. Madoff Investment Securities Company (BLMIS) crashed and burned when their founder's used fraud, deceit, and corruption for short term goals and stock price spikes. Readers will explore the pitfalls of bad ethical practices and learn how to be Values-based Leaders.

The book focuses on six themes:

• Corporate Culture
• Employee loyalty and engagement
• Motivations for improper behavior
• Going inside the mind of a whistleblower
• The importance of compliance programs
• White-collar crime for individuals

It's written in a practical voice, sprinkled with pop-culture references from movies, songs and tv shows and follows the life cycle of work, mostly from a U.S. perspective.

Each lesson begins with an Executive Summary, acting as a "teaser outline." These are followed by chapters including historical background, cautionary tales, and applied ethical solutions.

Readers will learn why good ethics is good business.

Paul Fiorelli is the Director of the Cintas Institute for Business Ethics at Xavier University. He was selected as a Supreme Court Fellow assigned to the United States Sentencing Commission. During his fellowship year, he received the "Thomas Clark Fellow Award" from Chief Justice Rehnquist. Fiorelli was also honored with the 2007 International Compliance Award from the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics.

Fiorelli received both his law and MBA degrees and is a tenured Professor at Xavier University. He also teaches a course on Ethics and Compliance at CY Cergy Paris University Law School. At Xavier, he's received numerous teaching awards including the 2023 MBA Professor of the Year. Fiorelli actively presents to Fortune 500 companies, universities, professional associations, and government agencies.