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- The Ethical Mind: A Challenge in Business?
- The Ethical Mind: A Challenge in Business?Ethics in for-profit business seems an oxymoronThe best example in electronics retail I have is the gold plated USB cable... Sale associates are pushed to sell them telling customers they are much better over the non-gold plated ones when there is no real world...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-01
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- The Ethical Mind: A Challenge in Business?
- Is it more difficult for businesspeople to adhere to an ethical mind than for those in other professions? That's what a Harvard professor thinks, because he says it lacks the structure of other professions (he makes the point that it is not, strictly, a profession) and the only goal is...
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- 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
- The Ethical Personal Injury Lawyer
- Ethics are as tantamount in an effective personal injury practice as any other component of the lawyer's practice. Ethics should be rudimentary for each trial attorney, with the trial attorney complying with ethics in every aspect of his or her practice. From the infancy of a client's case to the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Ethical/Social Issues For IT
- With the advent of Information Technology, it has become imperative to include it in corporate ethics and policies. This paper discusses some of the technology trends and the moral dimensions of the Information Age. The paper briefly explains how technology has changed the facet of business and the need to...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Some Ethical Aspects of Being an Information Professional
- ABSTRACT DISCUSSIONS OF ETHICS AND LIBRARIES FREQUENTLY focus on rights, especially the right of privacy and its role in supporting resistance to censorship. This article, using issues of censorship as particular examples, questions whether a focus on rights leads to a narrow idea of the library profession and its...
- Research articles 2001-01-01
- War and the role of the mass media: changing technology and a new kind of war for the United States present both the U.S. military and news reporters with new challenges and ethical dilemmas
- Major news organizations apparently expected to cover Operation Enduring Freedom as they covered Desert Storm a decade ago -- still fighting the last war -- with camera crews and klieg lights in the faces of bewildered Marines and their own star reporters competing to be used as transmission belts for...
- Research articles 2001-11-26
- Thou Shalt Not Steal Thy Competitor's Secrets
- Thou Shalt Not Steal Thy Competitor's SecretsCompetitor's SecretsVery clear explanation on the issueHow to do it the legal way?I really enjoyed this article as it explains in plain English how not to go about getting your competitors info.Now what is missing are the right ways to go about it. That...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-05
- 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 CPA Manager : Ethics In The Accounting Profession: A Study
- CPAs' high ethical standards are the foundation for their trust in the mind of the public. In order to maintain leadership in professional ethics, a rules-oriented approach is not enough. Education and training are essential for new professionals; measurement and monitoring are crucial for maintaining standards. Compliance is merely the...
- White papers 2000-10-01
- Siemens and the Ethics of Crime
- Siemens and the Ethics of CrimeSiemens has historySuffice to say, siemens deserve what she gets and if tommorrow, siemens set contract killers on the consultants, they equally deserve it. What irks me however, is stereotyping people and a nation. Siemens has an history in Nigeria. Go confirm that.RE: Siemens and...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-03
- Performance-Enhancing Drugs at Work: An Ethics Poll
- Performance-Enhancing Drugs at Work: An Ethics PollNot an either/orThe use of synthetic drugs to enhance performance is an issue to me, not so much because it helps an individual perform better, but because of the long-term effects on the brain and body. The extended use of steroids has been proven...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Corporate Governance Ratings: Caveat Emptor
- Looking in the rear view mirror reveals many examples over the past decade of massive corporate failures from essentially every sector of our economy, including Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Global Crossing, and Bear Sterns, just to name a few. Unfortunately, the natural reaction to these types of events is to develop...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Aerospace Defends its Ethics (Again)
- The timing seems unfortunate. The UK-based, soon-to-be-formed AeroSpace, Defence and Security trade body, A|D|S, is shining a spotlight on the "leading role that the defence industry is playing in ethical business practices" at the DSEi trade show today. According to a press announcement, the public's perception of...
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- How to Whistleblow... Quietly
- How to Whistleblow... QuietlyRE: How to Whistleblow... QuietlyYes, unethical behavior abounds. And rarely does anyone in executive management want anything done about it. In one case, I went first to my management with no results but a shrug and then the CID in a government organization to report blatent and...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-27
- Discount Your Prices, Not Your Brand
- Discount Your Prices, Not Your Brandethical?Yes its ethical. You are giving the consumer enough information to make an informed decision, it is just simply their choice whether they are going to do the "complicated" math to calculate a 24% discount.Ethics and price discounting tacticsSo much of marketing is about perception...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
- Better Ethics Through Incentives
- The Find: If you're keen to prevent scandal and corruption at your company, experts recommended that rather than just moralize, you focus on the incentives. The Source: An article entitled "How to Prevent Cheating" by Margaret Steen featured in this month's stanfordknowledgebase from the Stanford Graduate School...
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Understanding Your Values
- During your working life, it is easy to get so immersed in your day-to-day routine that you forget to look at the larger picture—your life as a whole. You might be very excited to have been offered a new job; you might simply feel grateful that you have a job...
- Articles 2007-02-15
- From the headlines: Whole Foods chief accused of anonymously bashing a rival company on Internet chat board.John Mackey, who co-founded natural foods giant Whole Foods in 1980 and has served as its CEO ever since, is under the gun for posting some pretty slanderous stuff about his chief rival on...
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Why Do Indian Children Keep Falling Into The Gap?
- Despite having established an ethical code three years ago amid a child labor scandal, Gap Inc's factories are still abusing children. The Observer's undercover reporters found children as young as 10 years old -- some sold by their families -- making clothes for Gap Kids in a New Delhi sweatshop. The children described long hours,...
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
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