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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
- 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
- Punishing the Unethical Employee
- Last week, I talked a lot about the idea of rewarding employees for ethical behavior. Some readers agreed with my contention that ethical behavior should be considered a standard of the job, and doesn't deserve an additional cookie. Others argued that rewarding ethical behavior sends a positive message to those...
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- 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
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Web-Tracking Vs. Privacy
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- 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
- Update: Minority Hiring Poll
- The unwritten rule among referees and umpires is that if you blow one, you fix it. It's called the "make-up call." Our poll on minority hiring alluded to a similar scenario, asking if it's acceptable to fix previous injustices in minority recruitment and hiring by pushing it...
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- 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
- Update: The Salary Leak
- Our poll on how to handle a Salary Leak has generated a big response, with the majority choosing to hold a staff meeting where they explain how salaries are determined and what employees can do to improve their future pay. But what's really going to happen at...
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- 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
- Poll: Racism in the Office
- Starting today, "Where's the Line" begins 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 issues of race and...
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
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- The human resources Environmental Scan for the Public Service of Canada
- This Human Resources Environmental Scan for the Public Service of Canada is designed to help federal departments and agencies better understand their operating environment, and improve their human resources planning by facilitating the identification of their current and future human resources needs. Through a review of recent human-resources-related developments and...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Auditing the human resources Function
- The purpose of a Human Resources audit is to assess the effectiveness of the Human Resources function and to ensure regulatory compliance. The audit can be conducted by anyone with sufficient Human Resources experience. There's an advantage to having the audit conducted by an external consultant. Read the article to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Managing human resources
- Efficient and effective use of human resources is one of the most important tasks of the organization. At the same time, the organization has to care and nurture its human resources to attract and retain the best talent. The function of the organization to manage its employees and to look...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
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