The Find: Practical, expert guidance on how to stay on the right side of the ethical divide when polishing your resume. The Source: Harvard Business Online's Conversation Starter. The Takeaway: When you're applying for that dream "reach" job the temptation is always there to,...
Where Ethics and HR CollideWhere Should "Code of Ethics" Lie within an OrganizationInteresting... we have quality control on all our products and services to ensure we satisfy our customers, however, when it comes to quality control within the personnel of our company, well, where lies the responsibility to uphold the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The New York Times ran a front-page story today about how companies are collecting massive amounts of data about what people search for on the Internet, and the pages they visit, so they can target them with specific advertisements. Yahoo alone is collecting data more than 2,500 times per month...
With all the options open to people today, it’s become unusual for anyone to stay in one job or even at one organization for their whole career. However, it takes a lot of thought, preparation, and courage to make the decision to move on. But when you feel you’ve gone...
The Ford Career Center FCC Code of Ethics provides a framework for the professional relationships among the FCC staff, employers and McCombs students. This paper is reviewed annually by the students, staff and Associate Deans for the BBA, MPA/PPA and MBA programs. Students are asked annually, at the beginning of...
Portfolio Partners PPL is leading the way in corporate governance with the release of a third policy paper - Human Capital - linking culture and people to organisational performance. The essence of the Human Capital Policy Paper is incorporated in PPL's company valuation process. PPL is of the opinion that...
Although recent episodes of corporate corruption triggered an avalanche of commentary and analysis, several vexing questions remain: What exactly went wrong and why? How extensive is the problem and how if at all is it related to the widespread instances of unethical conduct on college campuses? What needs to be...
This article focuses on corporate codes of ethics in the area of child labor as possible expressions of Strategic International Human Resource Management. It analyses whether 50 leading multinationals adopt universal ethical norms or relativist ethical norms. Child labor is not an issue where universalism prevails. Although some multinationals adhere...
The interaction between conflict management and ethics in organisations occurs within a complex web of power relations, organisational structure and belief systems. Added to this have been the significant reforms organisations have undertaken in order to remain competitive in increasingly globalised markets. The role of Human Resource Management HRM policies...
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...
From the executive summary: ‘The health care industry, both profit and non-profit, is no stranger to ethical lapses and even spectacular scandals. After all, the health care industry is subject to the same stresses and strains as other businesses. But, society expects better of its health care institutions; they should...
From the executive summary: ‘The paper argues that, as a normative matter, Sarbanes-Oxley Section 307 was well intentioned. As a practical matter, however, Section 307 seems unlikely to effect significant changes in corporate governance. On the other hand, the problematic approach taken by the Securities and Exchange Commission in implementing...
This Article argues that, as a normative matter, Sarbanes-Oxley Section 307 was well-intentioned. As a practical matter, however, Section 307 seems unlikely to effect significant changes in corporate governance. In our view, the nature of legal practice, the largely unchanged relationship between lawyers and managers, and the problematic approach taken...
In a substantial departure from its proposed "financial expert" definition, the SEC has adopted a more realistic final definition of "audit committee financial expert." The SEC final rules adopted pursuant to Sections 406 and 407 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 will require a public company to disclose, for fiscal...
The paper highlights a survey in April 2003, which indicates that nearly half of Human Resource HR professionals believe ethical conduct is not rewarded in business. Troubling figures show that during the last five years, HR professionals feel increasingly more pressure to compromise their organizations' ethics standards; however, they also...
"Pursuant to Sections 406 and 407 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC adopted final rules on January 23, 2003 to implement the requirements of the sections. This article discusses the new rules and the potential implications for public companies. Final rules under Section 404...
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