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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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Variety and the long tail

Seth Godin Blog

In a We Are All Weird universe, there are two sorts of cultural disappointments. There’s no comparison in the reach of M*A*S*H and the Crown. (In There are so many pockets of culture, it can’t help but feel a bit more lonely from a certain angle. In fact, it’s about 25:1).

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Embracing Selfless Love in the Workplace

Organizational Talent Consulting

There is no serious debate that well-designed organizations with clear organizational strategies influence desired behaviors, culture, and performance. Muel Kaptein introduced and validated the Corporate Ethical Virtues Mode l, which measures virtues at the organizational level. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 29 (7), 923-947.

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People Don’t Want to Be Compared with Others in Performance Reviews. They Want to Be Compared with Themselves

Harvard Business

They also consider it fair when their evaluations are accurate and are conducted based on ethical and moral principles. We call those temporal comparison evaluations. We call those social comparison evaluations. Specifically, employees perceive the fairness of evaluation processes when they feel included and respected.

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Virtual Coaching is Inevitable but is it Effective?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Virtual Coaching Benefit #2: Availability Virtual technology platforms enable the coach to be brought into just-in-time and rapid-response situations or situations like cross-cultural coaching goals. A comparison of face-to-face and distance coaching practices: Coaches’ perceptions of the role of working alliance in problem resolution.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

In comparison to many strategy consulting firms, Oliver Wyman consultants tend to specialize earlier in their career. This fits hand in hand with their culture of treating new hires as potential Partners, offering them opportunities early on to engage in important projects. OLIVER WYMAN CULTURE. Public Policy.

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2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting

Management Consulted

In 2015, 168 students of the 748-person class went in to consulting, despite the strong interest in investment banking at Columbia as well its culture of encouraging entrepreneurship. 55 of these graduates ended up at McKinsey, 35 at Bain, 29 at BCG, 28 at Deloitte, 8 at A.T. Kearney, 7 at Strategy&, and 3 each at EY and PwC.