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Clive Shearer
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by Design
By Clive Shearer
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December 9, 2009

Management By Design: Marketing raises ethical questions

By CLIVE SHEARER
Special to the Journal

A few months ago, a client offered me an assignment to work with multiple IT specialists who were being outplaced. The assignment was to coach them and identify new jobs for them. It was a lucrative contract and I knew right away that I'd enjoy the assignment. But something made me stop and consider the ethics of the situation, and that led me to write this column.

Let's start an exploration of ethics with a look at marketing language.


 
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