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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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Personal Ethics -- in Consulting Offers and in Business

CaseInterview.com

My Reply: There is no right answer for everyone and depends on your personal sense of ethics. But , there will be one person out there in the world who considers you at worst dishonest, at best lacking ethics. Looking forward to hearing from you! If at all possible, try to avoid rescinding an acceptance on an offer.

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Variety and the long tail

Seth Godin Blog

There’s no comparison in the reach of M*A*S*H and the Crown. (In or the best bread in Paris, the best chocolate in Missouri, ethical spices , or even the best gluten-free cakes in New York). The first has been around since the dawn of cable: We don’t all watch the same thing. In fact, it’s about 25:1).

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Consultant Marketing Trust Barometer

Jerry Fletcher

What makes it more important is the ongoing comparison of results it affords the viewer and the efforts of the company to find and report on those points where the findings begin to diverge from previous norms. But is faulted on ethics. It is one of the longest running studies on Trust. Diverging Trust. Trust in the light.

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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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Embracing Selfless Love in the Workplace

Organizational Talent Consulting

Muel Kaptein introduced and validated the Corporate Ethical Virtues Mode l, which measures virtues at the organizational level. Developing and testing a measure for the ethical culture of organizations: The corporate ethical virtues model. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 29 (7), 923-947. & Crawford, J.

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4 Emerging Leadership Styles and Why You Should Care

Organizational Talent Consulting

The purpose of business is "investing in employees, delivering value to customers, dealing ethically with suppliers and supporting outside communities." The following comparisons highlight the differences between each style's motivations and characteristics to provide a better understanding of leadership style.