Robert Sutton, professor of management science and engineering, received the 2007 Quill Award for best business book for “The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.”

Published in February 2007, the work was featured on USA Today, Publishers Weekly, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times bestseller lists.

Sutton, an organizational psychologist, is the co-founder of the d.school, Stanford’s design institute, and the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. His book discusses how workplace bullies harm the corporate environment. It gives advice on how to avoid becoming such a bully and how to deal with them in a business setting. The book is in part a survival guide for working in an office with unpleasant fellow employees.

Now in their third year, the Quill Awards are the only televised literary award. More than 6,000 booksellers and librarians voted online to choose this year’s recipients.