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Performance-Enhancing Drugs at Work: An Ethics Poll

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...

Tags: Human Resources, William Baker, Leadership, Management, Performance Management, Business Ethics, Ethics, Drug, Performance, Workforce Management

Blog posts 2008-05-12

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...

Tags: William Baker, Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Workforce Management, Business Ethics, Dilemma

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...

Tags: Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Business Ethics, Client, Ethics, Management, William Baker, Leadership, Human Resources

Blog posts 2008-05-02

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...

Tags: Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, Policies And Procedures, Business Ethics, Litigation, Culture, William Baker

Blog posts 2008-04-22

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...

Tags: Survey, Ethics, Toyota Prius, Business Ethics, Marketing Research, Benefits, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Human Resources, William Baker, Statement

Blog posts 2008-04-09

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...

Tags: Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Business Ethics, Ethics, Privacy, Workplace, Advertisement, Web, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, William Baker

Blog posts 2008-03-10

Additional Resources

International Association of Business Communicators/Houston Announces 2006 Executive Communicator of the Year Award Finalists; Annual Bronze Quill Ceremony to Highlight Houston's Communication ALL STARS in Baseball Studded Event

HOUSTON -- The Houston Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators IABC announced today the finalists of its Executive Communicator of the Year Award. The winner will be announced at the 2006 IABC/Houston Bronze Quill ceremony, "A Salute to Houston's Communication ALL STARS" on August 24,...

Articles 2006-07-27

Robert E. Rich, founder of Rich Products dies at 92.(Obituary)

After 92 years of innovation, passion and commitment to his family, business, industry and community, Robert E. Rich, founder and chairman of Rich Products Corp., passed away peacefully on February 15, 2006, surrounded by his loving family. While Mr. Rich's...

Articles 2006-02-01

High School Juniors Meet Racism Head On At Teen Leadership Institute

Entertainment, Teen & Lifestyle Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photos are available in a Smart News ReleaseTM on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com NEW YORK--ENTERTAINMENT WIRE--March 22, 2001 500 Students And Their Teachers Joined...

Articles 2001-03-22

Women At The Top In Corporate America - Brief Article

THE face of leadership in corporate America is changing. African-American women are making their way up the ladder of power to the top tier of the most successful companies in the United States. In positions such as CEO and corporate president, from the fields of finance, law...

Articles 2001-03-01

News and Notes.

Stephen G. Fischer of Kendall received the Florida Lawyers Action Group 1999-2000 Award at the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers Annual Convention in Tampa. Michael Cohen of Florida Lawyers Assistance, Inc., served as moderator for the five-day online CLE seminar,...

Articles 2000-10-15