Making Good: How Young People Cope with Moral Dilemmas at Work

Making Good explores the choices confronting young workers who join the ranks of three dynamic professions—journalism, science, and acting—and looks at how the novices navigate moral dilemmas posed by a demanding, frequently lonely, professional life.

Table of Contents:
Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Preface Contents Chapter 1. Making the Good Worker Three Dilemmas at the Workplace “Good Work” in a Healthy Society The Path to This Study An Investigation of Good Work A Study of Veterans: Alignment and Misalignment in the Professions Our Conceptual Framework Expectations and Uncertainties Chapter 2. From Cocoon to Chaos in Journalism Introducing the Veterans Introducing the Young Journalists Balancing Truths and Consequences: Tensions Faced by High School Journalists Young Professionals on the Move Navigating the Moral Minefield Chapter 3. The Long Windup in Genetics How Training in Science Has Changed Who Are the Veteran Geneticists? Who Are the Young Scientists? Integrity, Competition, and Survival Wrestling with Ethical Dilemmas Chapter 4. The Price of Passion in Theater Meet the Theater Veterans Meet the Young Actors Personal and Professional Tradeoffs Traversing Ethical Faultlines Three Trajectories and the Quandary of Moral Freedom Initial Vignettes Revisited Comparing Young Journalists, Scientists, and Actors Differences across Age Groups Chapter 6. Epilogue: Encouraging Good Work Six Factors: The Route to Good Work Levers for Good Work: The View from Inside Messages Appendix on Methods Comparisons of Responsibility Comparisons of Values Notes Index

Review :
Howard Gardner and the "Good Works" team that crafted this work have given us hope for the future. In this time of disorientation caused by the creative destruction that is reshaping so many institutions this is the book our new generation of professionals desperately need. -- Bill Kovach, Committee of Concerned Journalists, Columbia University As a member of one of the professions explored in Making Good, I found this work accurate--and alarming. Howard Gardner and his colleagues are best known for their writings about the many varieties of intelligence, but their recent provocative explorations of the meanings of work may prove equally important. I recommend this book to anyone concerned about how institutions can attract and support honorable future leaders. -- James Fallows, author of "Breaking the News" In Making Good, Howard Gardner, professor of cognition and education at Harvard, and researchers Wendy Fischman, Becca Solomon, and Deborah Greenspan capture the complex and often abstract values that shape people's professional goals and guide their decisions. -- Laura Secor Boston Globe Gardner and a trio of young researchers explore how young people in [journalism, genetic research, and theater] learn to become--or not to become--good workers. The result is a learned, thought-provoking, and accessible investigation of some of the most pressing issues of our time. -- David B. Wilkins Harvard Magazine