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- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Sick Leave Creates a dilemma
- Last week, Washington D.C. approved a new law requiring all city businesses to provide paid sick leave to their employees. This is a positive step for small businesses and low-wage workers (most large companies already have such policies in place for their professionals), but it reminded me of a...
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Poll: The Salary Leak
- Last week, "Where's the Line" began a series of discussions on some of the hot-button ethical issues in business today. We offer you a dilemma and let you decide who's right, who's wrong and who are just plain out of their minds. Today's dilemma deals with salaries. ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Update: Racism in the Office Poll
- The votes in our poll on how to handle Racism in the Office have been almost equally divided between "Find a compromise" and "Mandatory is mandatory." But within the second option - discipline the offenders - readers have written some insightful comments that point out an interesting...
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
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- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Poll: Firing Someone Who Doesn't Deserve It?
- Today's poll deals with a scenario a friend of mine recently found himself in. The problem is simple and all-too-common, but its potential solutions are complex. Your Dilemma: Your boss demands that you fire a subordinate, and you know this is because the two just don't seem...
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Poll: Staying "Outside the Box" when Parrots Advance
- Today's poll asks how you would handle a mixed signal from your boss. Your Dilemma: Your boss constantly claims he wants "outside the box" thinkers. Yet each time the staff meets to present ideas to him, he always chooses from those pitches that fit inside his own...
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Poll: Minority Hiring
- Your dilemma: One year ago, your company hired a new vice-president to oversee recruitment and implement a minority hiring initiative. Since then, minorities have accounted for about 40 percent of new hires, though they represent only 20 percent of applicants, and some long-time employees are whispering that better qualified candidates...
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Starbucks' Tip dilemma: Update
- Our poll on whether or not it was acceptable for Starbucks to share its tip pool with supervisors generated some interesting comments, including several from a reader named Robert Chenault. While this poll was not about frivolous lawsuits brought by money-hungry attorneys or the integrity of Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz...
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Yahoo's China Mess
- Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has asked Condoleeza Rice to intervene and help free Chinese dissidents who were jailed for using the Internet to share information about life in China after Yahoo provided the Chinese government with evidence from their Yahoo accounts. It is an about-face for Yahoo, which first justified...
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Poll: A Trump-Style Pitch
- Donald Trump has been advertising free training seminars on how to make money from the foreclosures coming out of the subprime mortgage mess, but a Los Angeles Times reporter found that the seminars were nothing more than a "two-hour infomercial" for a three-day workshop Trump sells for $1,495. (The Donald...
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Ad Exec's Suicide is Blamed on Industry Blogs
- On Feb. 22, Paul Tilley, an ad agency exec at DDB Chicago, committed suicide. Now many are pointing the finger of blame at some advertising blogs that allowed anonymous posters to personally attack Tilley, the man who oversaw the teams that created the "Dell Dude" and the "I'm Lovin It"...
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Googled, With Caller ID?
- Some websites now offer "visitor tracking" to let you know when your name has been Googled and, with some less-than Encyclopedia Brown-type snooping, essentially figure out who is doing the Googling (they can't tell you who is checking you out, but can pinpoint their location and the time the information...
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Poll: Gambling On Business With Friends
- Your Dilemma: Two years ago, you went into business with an old friend, opening an Internet sales company. The first year went well initially, but sales became flat after about a year. Your partner argued adamantly that what you needed was a consultant to come in and help gauge your...
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Starbucks' Tip dilemma
- Today's Ethics Poll: Starbucks and the Distribution of Tips. Last week, a California judge awarded $105 million in a class-action lawsuit against Starbucks because the company had wrongly allowed supervisors to share in the tips left by customers. Now, a former Starbucks employee in Massachusetts has filed...
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Poll: CEO Payouts in a Bad Year?
- The news is filled with stories of CEOs receiving huge payouts. The news is also filled with stories of companies performing poorly in the fragile economy. When you add the two together, the sum often equals bad P.R. for the CEO. But is this wrong? Should a...
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Poll: The Right Thing for the Wrong Reason?
- The last two days have drawn some spirited comments and emails about the issue of whether buying a Toyota Prius as a status-symbol, rather than an eco-friendly mode of transport, is right or wrong. You can read about it here and here. I agree with the people...
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Poll: Internships and Cronyism
- Today's poll deals with how to handle a tradition of cronyism. Your Dilemma: You've recently been hired as the vice-president in charge of recruitment for a medium-sized firm, and part of your job is to screen and select applicants for the company's coveted summer internships. There are...
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
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