Ethics in public relations a guide to best practice /

Provides insight into the personal and professional issues that affect public relations practitioners. Examines how an individual's sense of morality has an impact on decision-making and ethical business behavior. Covers topics such as virtue ethics, personal ethics, ethics in social media, gho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parsons, Patricia
Corporate Author: Gale Group.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: London, U.K. : Kogan Page, 2008.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:PR in practice series
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Table of Contents:
  • Before we begin: new profession...or one of the oldest?
  • Untangling the web: the 'truth' and other strangers
  • Truth, trust and the virtue of being 'good'
  • Whose rights are right?
  • The trouble with rules
  • Robin Hood ethics
  • Your staircase to respect
  • The good, the bad and the (almost) ugly: ethics codes
  • Sex and the single (or not) PR practitioner: conflict of interest
  • You...against the world
  • PR ethics and the media: the old and the new
  • Persuasion...or propaganda?
  • Good causes and bad taste
  • Authorship and deception
  • The true reality of everyday ethics: making decisions
  • PR and the corporate ethics programme
  • Making business accountable: the 'new breed' of PR.