Reviews for Positive Psychology in Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility (PB)

The average rating for Positive Psychology in Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility (PB) based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-07-27 00:00:00 Earl Jenkins I hate doing this, and rarely do, because I'm such a compulsive completer, but I just couldn't make it through this entire book... I actually gave up pretty early on. It was just too boring and obvious, and yes, I know that that is literally the most obnoxious critique that one can give to a sociology text. In my case though, a lot of it is that I've read enough subsequent lit talking about their findings to know where they're going, and I disagree with where they're going, so. UPDATE: I actually DID finish this book (1/2/12). Nope, reading the rest didn't change my mind. Their big argument is that American teens have big ambitions, but no idea how to make these into realities. They contend that everyone's desire to be a professional doesn't fit with economic realities or futures, and that high school and college students thus find themselves adrift, which is fair. But their like '18-year-olds should really be able to figure out exactly what they want to do' I think is a bit unfair/unrealistic, and their ideas for how they should do this (mainly via teen employment -- the like one place where I agree with Tim Clydesdale, who talks about this book a lot) not so helpful either. Their examples they do give, particularly an early amalgamated one about a girl wanting to be a fashion mag editor, show that they have no idea how to get these jobs either, so. They're all "she should be looking into colleges that have relevant majors or journalism schools!" and stuff like that. As someone who has worked in the ladymag business, let me say to that, uh no. Basically it's who you know, and you get to know these people by either a) going to a name school b) doing internships c) simply being fabulous or ideally d) all four (I had a and b only, and thus never made it that far up that particular career ladder). In any event, I bought this one because I thought it would be a fun and easy read, but it was too dullsville -- very "kids these days". I basically read most of part 1, where they compare their data to old interview and quantitative data from a few large-scale studies done in the 50s. So its sort of an interesting methodology, but I just didn't feel like they leveraged as well as they could have in their findings. Their descriptions of teen life in the 50s versus the 90s fall incredibly flat given the richness of the data they're using. Also -- and this is on Yale, not on them -- dude, the stock photo they got for the cover is just too much. It's an amazing composition of odd-looking models and 90s white clothing styles. The girls with the giant mens' jeans and their underwear showing are kind of amazing, particularly the really skinny one in the middle in the velour tank. But the guys -- oh the guys. On the far left we've got a sort of raver -slash- Backstreet Boy, with dog collars and what appears to be a fanny pack layered over a visor on his head. In the background we've got a skater (can tell from the Independent logo visible on his backwards-turned hat). Then we have this dude who's head is incredibly giant and who appears to be about to start laughing hysterically. He (I think) has on a giant Nautica logo sweater. The guy on the right is almost my favorite though. He's a big-headed Jonathan Taylor Thomas lookalike in a Nautica visor and (inexplicably) what appears to be a Hawaiian shirt. Wait, how did I forget that the girl on the left has one tiny braid in her hair, and a Bart Simpson button pinned to her belt? As much as this book holds back, this awful stock image just keeps on giving.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-04-05 00:00:00 Bruce Williamson I should preface this review by saying that my purpose in reading it was to inform my research - to understand what has been done and the important gaps in the literature that need to be answered. With those objectives I mind, I found the book to be methodologically informative, although lacking in a main theoretical framework.