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- a system of moral principles applied in the commercial world. Business ethics provide guidelines for acceptable behavior by organizations in both their strategy formulation and day-to-day operations. An ethical approach...
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- Corporate Ethics, Corporate Culture and Corporate Image Today's Key Managerial Issues.
- Every organization has a corporate image, whether it wants one or not. When properly designed and managed, the corporate image will accurately reflect the organization's commitment to quality, excellence and its relationships with its various constituents. It is a critical concern for every organization, one deserving the same attention and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Renewing Strength: Corporate Culture Revisited
- In this paper, the management of corporate culture is explored through a series of reflections upon literature that has fashioned and addressed this field. Specifically, the paper considers the motivation, key elements and continuing relevance of the critique made in "Strength is Ignorance; Slavery is Freedom" where, by pointing to...
- White papers 2003-10-27
- The Importance Of Organizational And Corporate Cultures
- Organizational and corporate culture consists of the following components; culture where there are shared actions, values, and beliefs that have developed within the organization, corporate, or firm. These components guide the members within the groups. A firm is a group of people who are grouped together for economic gain. A...
- White papers 2008-11-07
- Cornell Tackles Ethics and Corporate Culture
- Corporate scandals crop up in the news at such a pace these days it seems the breakdown in ethical behavior has permeated every rung of the corporate ladder. With mounting pressure from the current economic landscape, business people and lawyers may find the line denoting ethical behavior increasingly difficult to...
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
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- Bentley Global Business Ethics Symposium: State Street's Chow, Deloitte's Bacic Talk Business Ethics, Reclaiming Role As Guardian of the Public Trust.
- Byline: Bentley College WALTHAM, Mass., May 24 AScribe Newswire -- The key to instilling ethics in employees and corporate culture is "high standards for corporate governance, a clearly-defined Code of Conduct and a focus on managing risk and ensuring compliance," according to State Street...
- Research articles 2005-05-24
- Business Ethics
- Ethics, essentially, consist of a set of moral guidelines towards conductance of an appropriate behavior. Such behavior conforms to professional standards of conduct. The corporate code of ethics consists of a set of moral principles and values that govern the behavior of the organization with respect to what is right...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Teaching Business Ethics: Why, What And How
- Business ethics consists of a set of moral principles and values that govern the behavior of the organization with respect to what is right and what is wrong. It provides a framework on which the organization could be legally governed. There is a widespread need to proliferate the principles of...
- Presentations 2003-03-13
- Business Ethics: The Law Of Rules
- Despite the rash of corporate scandals and the resulting rush to address the problem by adding more laws and regulations, seemingly little attention has been paid to how the nature not the substance of rules may or may not affect ethical decision-making. Drawing on work in the law, ethics, management,...
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Workforce Performance Solutions: WPS Magazine Discusses Senior Leadership's Role in Business Ethics; Case Study Looks at American Management Association Survey on Causes of Unethical Behavior
- CHICAGO -- Although compliance programs, internal reporting and policies can address the surface issues surrounding business ethics, the real problems often go deeper. Appropriately, the Engagement feature in the March issue of Workforce Performance Solutions magazine examines how ensuring that leadership walks the talk is part of making ethical corporate...
- Research articles 2006-03-09
- No revised lesson plan at b-schools; Back of the class: ethics after Enron.(News)(business schools)
- Byline: SARAH A. KLEIN It's fodder for a case study in any business ethics course: self-dealing, questionable bookkeeping, conflicts of interest and a corporate culture that exalted profit and pay above all other values. While the Enron-Andersen Byline: SARAH A. KLEIN...
- Research articles 2002-02-11
- "Lose Your Ethics, Lose Your Business"
- Check out this wonderfully scathing missive from Joe Scarlett, the former CEO of Tractor Supply, on how an ethical lapse led to the biggest beef recall in history, and the destruction of a company, Westland/Hallmark Meat. There's so much about the California meat scandal that is beyond...
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Ethics as a Business Process
- What is Ethics? This is a slippery issue, especially for business folks trying not to "harass" employees, or to force "moral" values upon them that might be contrary to their own culture. So this is a very difficult topic to discuss openly. This is a timely subject based on the...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- New Report Provides Innovative Approach to Managing Organizational Ethics
- WASHINGTON, June 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A new method for incorporating ethics into organizational culture is now available thanks to the work of leaders in academia and the corporate sector. Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. President William J. Pesce, co-chairs of the...
- Research articles 2005-06-22
- Survey Summary: How Managers and Execs Rate Their CEOs
- Survey Summary: How Managers and Execs Rate Their CEOsRE: Survey Summary: How Managers and Execs Rate Their CEOs"truth be told"Bigwig BiasedI wonder how much differently this survey might have turned out if 75% of the respondents were the rank-and-file.RE: Survey Summary: How Managers and Execs Rate Their CEOsSurprising? Hardly…....
- Discussion threads 2007-11-06
- Dow CEO: Ethics must be more than 'corporate fashion'
- A business culture steeped in more than 100 years of small-town Midwestern values has been essential to Dow Chemical Co.'s growth and success throughout the world, its chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris told the Ethics and Compliance Conference in New York.
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- Interactions between compliance and ethics
- This column has consistently emphasized the importance of a strong ethical climate in an organization because it enables a company to have superior ability to achieve all its objectives, including better financial performance. The most successful organizations have begun to combine their compliance and ethics efforts and even redirect the...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- As Wall Street Goes, So Goes
- As Wall Street Goes, So GoesRE: As Wall Street Goes, So GoesLiberal or Conservative, it seems 'the ends justify the means' has been the rule far too long. How about 'the needs of others outweigh the needs of self' for a change?RE: As Wall Street Goes, So GoesI first...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Denver Executives Told at Summit That Employees Are at Heart of Company Ethics.
- By Marsha Austin, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 22--Ethics in business starts at the top, but the heart of a scandal-free company is in its employees, top Denver executives said Friday at the 2004 Communication & Ethics summit at the...
- Research articles 2004-02-22
- Motives Mattter When It Comes to Diversity Training
- Motives Mattter When It Comes to Diversity TrainingA BIt of Bias, A Bit of Reality....First of all, "forced diversity training" is a highly biased term. All training in a company deemed as mandatory might be called "forced." That can range from varying forms of safety training to specific job...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- A Branding Strategy Horror Story
- A Branding Strategy Horror StoryRE: A Branding Strategy Horror StoryA smart reader just emailed me this reponse:I think you've confused strategic execution and strategic planning. Businesses should have a well-defined and understood strategy, generally the simpler the better, and you're right when you say corporate politics often prevents everyone aligning...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
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