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Ethics Management Myths: Learning from Them: Many ethical decisions are analyzed in reverse. Choosing what is right is often just an analysis of everything you know to be wrong. But when we're talking about trying to manage those ethics, to attempt the huge challenge of getting a large group of people to behave accordingly, what do...; Tags: Leadership, William Baker, business ethics, ethics; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Such Is The Importance of Ethics: When we're talking about establishing an ethical business culture, the small things matter. Yet, too often, we let the small things slide, we turn the other way, we don't make it our business. Here's a comment from a reader that addresses how the small things -- the...; Tags: Ethics, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, William Baker; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Ethical Decisions: For Leadership Only?: Monster.com, the Internet job-listing giant, has a quiz on its site called "Test Your Business Ethics." The quiz is aimed at entry-level employees who are new to business and presents five ethical dilemmas, each with three possible courses of action. What's interesting is that the correct answer for three of...; Tags: Business ethics, Workforce management, William Baker, leadership, ethical dilemma; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Poll: Local Ethics in a Global Business World: Are ethics absolute, or are they dictated by the context of the society in which the actions take place? If you're doing business in a foreign land where facilitation payments - read: bribes - are a standard part of life, is it acceptable for you and your company to follow...; Tags: Business ethics, William Baker, ethics, custom; Blog posts 2008-04-30
Racist Remarks from a Client: Confront or Ignore?: A recent blog post over in BNET1 about how job candidate interviewees are flunking etiquette 101 - answering cell phones, bringing children along, using profanity - was, shall we say, humorously disturbing. But this bad behavior has a simple solution: don't hire the person. But poor etiquette...; Tags: William Baker; Blog posts 2008-05-02

Oregon's Ethics War: Name all of your adult relatives. On the record. Publicly. Would you be willing to do this to keep your job? If you want to be a public official in Oregon, these are the new requirements. And, so far, at least 150 of the state's 5,000 public...; Tags: Business ethics, William Baker, ethics, business interest; Blog posts 2008-04-29
Performance-Enhancing Drugs at Work: An Ethics Poll: Is the asterisk coming to the business world? The use of performance-enhancing drugs has clogged up the sports world for the last couple of years, but steroid and human growth hormone are not the only way to get a chemical advantage. What about the brain drugs, those...; Tags: Business ethics, Performance management, William Baker, ethics, performance; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Poll: Reporting Fudged Credentials?: Today's poll deals with something most everyone will face at some point in their career: whether to report a colleague after you come across some damaging information about their history. Your Dilemma: You have long wondered how one of your colleagues, whom you view as being less...; Tags: William Baker; Blog posts 2008-04-25
Beazer Homes Releases Long Awaited '07 Results: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home builder Beazer Homes USA BZH said on Monday that it lost $10.70 per share in fiscal 2007, it released restated results for several years, and said it remains the target of several state and federal investigations. Beazer said...; Tags: Business ethics, Litigation, Financial Planning, Financial accounting, Operational accounting, ethics, settlement, financial reporting, North Carolina, accounting, financial statement, financial, adjustment, New York, audit, Thomson Reuters Corp., agency; News items 2008-05-12
"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...; Tags: Business ethics, William Baker, Joe Scarlett, ethics, leadership; Blog posts 2008-04-23
Ethics Commission Gets Serious About Ethics: If the above headline sounds like something you might read in The Onion, that's because this story, out of Nashville, sounds like an Onion plotline. Two years ago, in the wake of a corruption scandal that sent five lawmakers to jail, Tennessee created a state ethics commission...; Tags: Business ethics, William Baker, ethics; Blog posts 2008-04-21
Do Consumers Care If You're Green?: From over at AdWeek comes a long and measured look at green marketing from the only angle that ultimately matters: Do consumers care? The answer, depressingly, is: Eh, not so much. From the story: When it asks about specifics of green behavior, polling tends to confirm that mainstream consumers...; Tags: Consumer, Marketing Research, Business Ethics, Marketing, Leadership, Management, Jake Swearingen; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Six Steps to an Ethical Business Culture: A recent white paper from Allegiance, a company which provides what they call Enterprise Feedback Management, attempts to outline a plan for creating an ethical business culture in six steps: Establish an enforceable code of conduct. Initial and ongoing training. Regular communications. Anonymous reporting...; Tags: Business ethics, Litigation, William Baker, Allegiance; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Coach Fights Phony Bags with a Phony Person?: Have you heard the one about how Coach gave money to a public relations class at Hunter College so that the kids could learn about how bad counterfeit goods are, and then allegedly condoned the kids using that money to create a phony advertising campaign featuring a phony student who...; Tags: Public relations, William Baker; Blog posts 2008-05-05
Building a Corporate Ethics Program: While regulatory change spurred new initiatives for some companies, it also reinforced the importance of ethics programs other companies already had in place. It's much better when ethics programs are integrated within the organization, within training and compliance, and in coordination with risk management. To bring in consultants to do...; Tags: Business ethics, Workforce management, Protiviti, ethics, consultant, training, risk management, compliance; White papers
Ten Leadership Characteristics: No organization can rise above the quality of its leadership. Because leadership is a position that must be earned day in and day out, there are important personal choices that both new and experienced leaders must make on a regular basis. Effective leaders are first and foremost effective people. Personal...; Tags: Business ethics, leadership, ethics, leader; White papers
Partnerships and Cause Related Marketing: Building Brands for the future: Cause related marketing and corporate social responsibility can go a long way in building a reliable brand image and reputation. While campaigns vary in scope and design, the nature of most relationships carry common elements like synergy, trust and influence. This paper looks closely at some of the key factors...; Tags: Branding, Business ethics, Corporate law, Leadership, Corporate Social Responsibility, brand image, brand, partnership, marketing; White papers
Neutralising Manipulative Negotiation Tactics: Prior to the 1980's, many companies focused their negotiation training on tactics London, Birmingham, Manchester. Although the tactics presented in this paper will yield a short term result, the authors' don't advocate their use in a business context. The reason the authors' don't advocate their use is due to both...; Tags: Tactic, Negotiation, Free Trade, Business Ethics, Finance, Leadership, Management; White papers
The Fastest Cars Have the Best Brakes: Whilst executives must always keep a sharp focus on business performance, it's fair to say that the modern CEO has more distractions than ever before. Increasing compliance obligations, greater scrutiny of company ethics and pressure to perform extensive risk management has left firms with plenty on their plate. But it...; Tags: compliance, risk management; White papers
Business, Ethics, and Leadership in a Post Enron Era: Conventional wisdom paradoxically tells one that even though change is constant, certain things never really change. Or even when things appear to change, they wind up coming back again. Not all of conventional wisdom is just a casual cliche, or a cosmetic bromide. Things do and can repeat themselves. Similar...; Tags: AllBusiness.com, business ethics, leadership; White papers