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Poll: Rewarding Ethical Behavior?: On Tuesday, I mentioned a white paper that outlined six steps to an ethical business culture, and took issue with the fact that one of these steps involved rewarding employees who behaved ethically. But after mulling it over some more - and a comment from my BNet colleague Geoffrey James...; Tags: William Baker; Blog posts 2008-04-24
Punishing the Unethical Employee: Last week, I talked a lot about the idea of rewarding employees for ethical behavior. Some readers agreed with my contention that ethical behavior should be considered a standard of the job, and doesn't deserve an additional cookie. Others argued that rewarding ethical behavior sends a positive message to those...; Tags: William Baker, ethical breach, ethical behavior; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Does Early Smoking Signal Later Problems?: The observation that adolescents who smoke also tend to have a variety of other problems (including the use of alcohol and other drugs, academic difficulties, delinquency, and impaired relationships) is not new. Most studies that have linked smoking with other high-risk behaviors have done so in older adolescents. They wanted...; Tags: RAND Corp.; White papers
Teaching Team Behaviors Earlier...Much Earlier: Did a person ever wonder why adults seem to struggle when assigned to a new workplace team of some kind? As organizations increase their use of teams, the "New" skills and behaviors required seem to challenge everyone. Why does a person have so much difficulty in the workplace with something...; Tags: Team management, Recruitment & Selection, workplace, team; White papers
The Impact of Ethical Leadership Behavior on Employee Outcomes: The topics of authentic leadership and the ethical behavior of leaders have received significant interest in recent years due to the plethora of ethical scandals in corporations. In this paper, the authors' have developed a theoretical framework that maintains that employees' psychological empowerment mediates the relationship between leaders' ethical behaviors...; Tags: AllBusiness.com, leader, leadership; White papers

Understanding the Sexual Behavior of Adolescents: Public health officials and educators have a long-standing interest in adolescent sexual behavior and risk prevention--an interest intensified by the spread of HIV. Unfortunately, understanding of adolescent sexuality is quite limited. Research on adolescent sexual behavior has typically concentrated on vaginal intercourse. However, adolescents who are virgins (defined as never...; Tags: RAND Corp., public health; White papers
Communicate to Change Behavior Ahead of Organizational Values and Culture: The ultimate objective of most communication activities is to change behavior. To achieve an employee behavior change, many communicators work on the principle that they need to change employee attitudes first. However, even if attitudes are changed, habits may be too strong to break and therefore behavior may not change....; Tags: Behavior; White papers
Notice To Emplyees Of Unsatisfactory Behavior: This template is used as a notice to employees for their unsatisfactory behavior, many times in organizations few unfortunate incidents happen such as in a meeting or in a speech few employees target the speaker and goes with teasing or making comment on him, this is unacceptable and it is...; Tags: Behavior, Notice, SHBBL; Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Business Ethics: Pay the Bribe?: Ethical behavior is not a global standard. In some geographies, paying a bribe is not considered an ethical or moral issue -- it's just the cost of doing business. So should you pay the bribe, too? Harvard Business School professor Bill George makes the...; Tags: business ethics, Sean Silverthorne, bribe, Bill George, ethics; Blog posts 2008-02-15
Reinforce Desired Behavior: The Premack Principle states that a high probability behavior can serve as a reinforcer for a low probability behavior. In more practical terms it means that if you watch what people do when they have a choice, their choice identifies a reinforcer for them in that situation. If you consistently...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job; White papers 2007-12-01
From Baseball to Accounting: Why We Encourage Unethical Behavior: It may not be right, but we often overlook unethical behavior in others. In a recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Max Bazerman and colleagues explain the psychological reasons why this is so, and what companies can do about it. The paper, See No Evil: When...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, accounting, unethical behavior; Blog posts 2008-01-28
Time Management Program: The Key Elements Of A Powerful Time Management Program: A powerful time management program will include assessment(s) of your time related behaviors. Assessments are scientifically validated instruments that help you to understand either the "Why" of your behaviors or the "How" of your behaviors, and can also indicate both depending on the instrument(s) used. Assessments eliminate the guess work...; Tags: time management; White papers 2007-10-21
Using NLP to Improve Your Management Skills: Have you ever wondered why you don’t get along with particular employees, why some members of your team don’t follow to your instructions, or why, when you think you’re approaching something correctly, it just doesn’t have the desired effect? NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming, is fundamentally about making sense of how...; Tags: BNET Editorial, natural language processing, theory, team, programming, technique, job, environment; Articles 2007-12-17
Practice Procrastination - Top Three Reasons Why Not To Do It: Procrastination is a very common occurrence in the lives of many different people. Many procrastinators may not even be able to tell you why they put things off so often. By definition, procrastination is something that is put off needlessly. You are not likely procrastinating if you haven't done something...; Tags: Behavior, Web Site, Procrastination, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet; White papers 2007-01-01
Closing Rule #1: Think Like a Closer.: We're going to spend this week on a key skill: how to close. The last time we touched on this subject, I pointed out the many problems with manipulative "trick closes," so I'm not going to go over that material again. Instead, I'm going to present a series...; Tags: Geoffrey James, Rule #1; Blog posts 2007-10-08
3 Reasons To Stop Procrastinating: Procrastination is a very common occurrence in the lives of many different people. Many procrastinators may not even be able to tell you why they put things off so often. By definition, procrastination is something that is put off needlessly. You are not likely procrastinating if you haven't done something...; Tags: Behavior, Procrastination; White papers 2007-01-01
Interface Modeling - A Modular Approach To Identify And Assess Unintended Product Behavior: The purpose of the individual components of a technical system are often well-defined (although possibly poorly understood), but the interactions, which take place at the interfaces between the components, are frequently hard to understand and describe, thus, making the behavior of a new or adapted system difficult to predict. Engineering...; Tags: Research & Development, modeling, high-performance; White papers 2006-05-31
Modeling The Innovative Behavior Of Firms Within The Manufacturing Sector In A Border Regional Perspective: This paper examines innovative behavior of firms by use of probit models. Based on a questionnaire undertaken in Western Denmark and Northern Germany a model is set up to identify the factors influencing the probability of a successful innovative action. In order to examine the influence of the bias imposed...; Tags: modeling, manufacturing; White papers 2006-05-18
Optas Best Practice: Driving Consumer Behavior: In high-involvement decisions like pharmaceutical therapy choice there are multiple decision points that can make or break a brand's success in driving Rx. It is important that the brand deliver the proper level of education, motivation and support to properly meet the needs of each patient. Further the brand should...; Tags: Branding, Dendrite International Inc., therapy, brand, patient, motivation; White papers 2006-02-14
Entrepreneurs And Evolutionary Biology: Biological evolutionary processes select for heritable behaviors providing a survival and reproductive advantage. Accordingly, how we behave is, at least in part, affected by the evolutionary history of our species. This research uses evolutionary psychology as the theoretical perspective for exploring the relationship between a heritable biological characteristic (testosterone level)...; Tags: theory; White papers 2005-10-04