These are Catherine Sibala's recommendations for 2022!
1. The Business Ethics Field Guide: The Essential Companion to Leading Your Career and Your Company to Greatness
The purpose of this book by famed business ethics instructor Brad Agle and co-authors Aaron Miller and Bill O’Rourke is to help business people navigate corporate situations where none of the choices seem attractive. The book is action-oriented, providing a range of tools to help practitioners tackle ethical dilemmas and presenting and working through 13 ethical challenges based on real-life cases.
2. Downfall: The case against Boeing
This 2022 Netflix documentary plots the history of Boeing, an aviation pioneer and innovator, whose fortunes took a drastic turn for the worse when two Boeing 737 Max planes - both brand new - crashed within months of each other. Boeing’s troubles are a cautionary tale about what can happen when corporate values are undermined - even corrupted - by toxic organizational culture.
Catherine Sibala
Catherine Sibala received her 1989 Bachelor of Science (Hons) and 1997 Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies from the Australian National University and her 2004 Masters in International Relations from Deakin University in Geelong, Australia.
Sibala has over 15 years of experience as a national public official in the Australian Federal Government, including as a diplomat at the Australian Embassy in Tokyo from 2005 to 2008 where she was Political First Secretary. During her time as a government official, Sibala represented the Australian government at numerous multilateral and bilateral meetings and negotiations and presented regularly at domestic and international conferences. Following the completion of her diplomatic assignment, Sibala was Senior Analyst at Okamoto Associates, Inc., a Tokyo-based international political, economics and security consultancy, where her responsibilities included monitoring and analysis of international developments. As Assistant Professor at Mejiro University from 2010-2016, she lectured on Japan’s foreign relations, Japanese labor issues, Japanese business, and written and spoken English.
Sibala’s research interests have a strong Japan focus and include Japanese labor issues, a field in which she has international conference presentation and publication experience; as well as Japan’s foreign relations, an area in which she has published several papers.
