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- Student Loan Business: An Ethical Dilemma in the Credit Crunch
- Student Loan Business: An Ethical Dilemma in the Credit CrunchBusiness reality & Greater GoodI really wonder where this line comes from... 'This is a situation where business reality outweighs the greater good' and exactly the 'wrong' attitude to take in these present times. HOW CAN business reality ever outweigh the...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
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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
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Exploring Ethical Decisions
- Cases in Accounting Ethics and Professionalism -- Third Edition by Steven M. Mintz AVE YOU EVER FACED AN ethical dilemma on the job? Upon reflection, did you regret that you hadn't received more training in the area of ethics and professionalism? Did you lament the lack of a systematic...
- Research articles 1999-12-01
- Student Loan Business: An Ethical Dilemma in the Credit Crunch
- The student loan business is going through a credit crisis, and some of the nation's largest lenders are responding with a new business model that may be sound business but is ethically questionable. Students at the top-tier schools are being taken care of, but those at the...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Building Trust Through Ethical Sales Behavior
- Effective selling requires more than an ability to communicate a product's features or benefits. Sales representatives must also develop quality relationships with their customers. Regardless of a company's reputation, customers choose to do business with people they trust. Sales representatives have to earn that trust by behaving ethically and conveying...
- Articles 2007-11-15
- Lessons of an Ethics Writer
- A year-and-a-half ago, when I was asked to write this ethics blog, I wrote out a short introductory post. So today, my last day writing this blog, I took a quick look at it. Everything you need to survive in today’s business world you probably learned in...
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- The Business of Families
- This is not the sort of question you typically address in your column, but I think it features an ethical dilemma in the business of families: My brother-in-law is a doctor, and he makes a considerable amount of money. He is very generous with his fortune, but he has recently...
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- Creating and Sustaining an Ethical Workplace Culture
- Ethics is about behavior. In the face of dilemma, it is about doing the right thing. Ethical managerial leaders and their people take the "Right" and "Good" path when they come to the ethical choice points. The purpose of this paper is to steer one's thinking and action toward creating...
- White papers 2003-12-17
- Where Ethics and HR Collide
- The great majority of companies can't afford a full-time on-board ethicist to deal with delicate conflicts of interest and other moral dilemmas. Most employees turn to their Human Resources departments. So a study released this month by The Society for Human Resource Management SHRM and The Ethics...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- You Tell Us "Where's the Line"
- "I'm talkin' about ethics..." So begins the 1990 Coen Brother's picture, "Miller's Crossing," a noir tale of Chicago mobsters rife with ethical dilemmas concerning honor among thieves. In the film, rival gangland bosses vie for control of a city while grappling with conflicting loyalties, obligations and opportunities for...
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- BALANCE PROMOTES ETHICS?
- Employers who want to improve ethical behavior in the office can start by offering workers a more flexible schedule. According to Deloitte & Touche, there is a relationship between work-life balance and ethical conduct on the job. "People who invest all of their time and energy into their work may...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Three Web Design Elements that Eyes Love
- Type. Click. Look. Drawing in web visitors is its own game, but once you have them hooked, how do you get them to navigate to your ads? Jakob Nielsen says he has the answers. But he reveals them with one caveat in mind: they pose ethical dilemmas. Why? One of...
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- The World's Most Ethical Companies
- What does it mean to be named to Ethisphere's list of the World's Most Ethical Companies? Well, it's been a week since the list was announced, and those companies who were honored followed through on a topic I discussed in a recent post -- they sold their ethics. They're doing...
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Privacy issues creating dilemma for employers; Policies on access can head off intrusion charges.(News)
- Byline: JUDY GREENWALD Safeguarding employee privacy demands a fine balancing act from employers. On the one hand, employers want to ensure employees' right to privacy for moral, ethical and legal reasons. On the other, they must also protect ...
- Research articles 2004-02-16
- British Investor's Ethical Policy Creates Dilemma for Pension Managers.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 6 -- Ethical investment came of age last month when the mighty Prudential, one of Britain's biggest investors, announced that its massive UKpound 55 billion British investment portfolio would in future be independently screened on social and environmental grounds....
- Research articles 1999-12-09
- Poll: Can Ethical Breaches Ever Be "Part of the Job?"
- THE SCENARIO: I’ve recently begun work as a drug rep, and part of my training involved a heavy emphasis on what is ethically, and legally, allowed in our dealing with doctors. Recently, I went out for after-work drinks with several of the veteran drug reps, and they told me that...
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- Harry Kraemer's Moment of Truth
- In an era when the business section read like the police blotter, the CEO of Baxter International faced a tough ethical dilemma and he did something noteworthy: He actually did the right thing. This article reveals the case study about Don Baxter's business. Founded in 1931 by Dr. Don Baxter...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- Managing Neutrality and Impartiality in Workplace Conflict Resolution: The Dilemma of the HR Manager
- The interaction between conflict management and ethics in organisations occurs in a web of power relations, organisational structures and the often conflicting objectives of organisational competitiveness and workplace justice. Human Resource Management HRM policies and practices have been pivotal in managing this interface. Key to the role of the HR...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Green Ethics
- Yesterday, I wrote a post about how Toyota Prius buyers were accused of being liars because many bought their vehicle not for the hybrid's eco-friendliness, but because it announced their own eco-friendliness. And let me say again that I'll take a hybrid any way I can get it. If they...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
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