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5 Signs Your Organization Might Be Headed for an Ethics Scandal

Harvard Business

Corporations often approach ethics as an individual problem, designing oversight systems to identify the “bad apples” before they can turn the organization into a “rotten barrel.” And our explanations for ethical scandals are incomplete without a focus on group dynamics. Vince Streano/Getty Images.

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Becoming a Data-Driven Organization: What You Need to Know

Epicflow

During the recent decade, companies have been making efforts to transform their business processes and culture to turn into data-driven organizations. . McKinsey consultancy suggests that the data-driven enterprise of 2025 will be characterized by certain processes [2]. Cultural challenges.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

You’ll have to read on to hear our opinion (see Culture section in particular). THE ADVISORY BOARD COMPANY CULTURE. The firm focuses more on expertise and pedigree than merit, and the firm’s high turnover rate is self-fulfilling – low cultural cohesion leads to more of the same. What does that mean?

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. But it’s also the responsibility of the company to cultivate a culture that shuns corner-cutting and prevents it from accumulating into major scandals, ones that damage the credibility of the business, endanger jobs, and threaten the entire enterprise.

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We Shouldn’t Always Need a “Business Case” to Do the Right Thing

Harvard Business

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.”

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The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution

Kates Kesler

But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. This got the team out of an unproductive centralization/decentralization debate and focused on the design of an enterprise-field network.

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CSR: Collaborating with NPOs for Positive Social Impact

Tom Spencer

Culture of Accountability Having a culture of accountability is essential for both non-profits and companies to achieve their goals. By partnering with non-profits like Kiva, companies can be confident that the organisation is committed to achieving its goals in a responsible and ethical manner.