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Taking the Bullet: Interesting debate taking place over at the Harvard Business site on the idea that true leaders take responsibility when things go wrong -- even if they are not personally at fault. Former Morgan Stanley co-president Zoe Cruz recently lost her job apparently because, according...; Tags: Leadership, Sean Silverthorne, leader; Blog posts 2007-12-05
The Themes of Responsibility: In this modern and diverse society, responsibility plays a very decisive role in term of "Job recruitment and work delegation." Does one believe that sense of responsibility is the most important factor for job criterion and political position? This is one of the facts that is rarely revealed and explored....; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, EzineArticles.com, job; White papers 2006-03-21
Global Sourcing Operations: How and Why?: The expansion of world trade and world prosperity is an unending responsibility for business and government leaders. The acquisition of materials, parts or components, services and capital equipment is all part of world trade. Supply managers have a dual responsibility to society, and these vital roles include significant conflicting responsibilities....; Tags: DuPont Co., capital equipment, acquisition; White papers 2005-05-01
Legal Liability of Water Systems for Terrorist Induced Harm: Simply put, the safety and security of drinking water are issues that cannot be taken for granted. Water utilities now operate under a new "Culture of security." Water systems have a responsibility to ensure that when customers open up their taps and pour themselves a glass of water, that it...; Tags: civil lawsuit, security; White papers 2005-02-22
Creating a Vision for Environmental Responsibility in Multinational Corporations: Executive Leadership and Organizational Change: A sea change is occurring in the way multinational corporations MNCs deal with environmental management issues. Many have progressed from a strategy of avoidance or minimal compliance with regulations to one of pro-active voluntary environmental management that exceeds legal requirements. A complex set of forces brought many executives who saw...; Tags: vision, compliance, strategy; White papers 2004-07-12

Guideline on Design Responsibility: For design-build construction projects, the responsibility for the plans and specifications must be extended to the design-build entity in order to ensure project success. Delegation of professional services which constitute the practice of architecture or engineering, should ordinarily be limited to manufactured products such as curtain walls and elevators, and...; Tags: professional services, wall; White papers 2003-10-31
Explaining Enron: Communication and Responsible Leadership: Although a variety of explanations are available for the recent collapse of the nation's seventh largest corporation, this analysis employs principles of communication- based leader responsibilities to explain Enron's demise. These responsibilities include: communicating appropriate values to create a moral climate; maintaining adequate communication to be informed of organizational operations;...; Tags: Enron Corp., leader, leadership, analysis; White papers 2003-08-01
Making Ethical Decisions And Managing A Socially Responsible Business: Unethical decisions in an organization not only damage the company’s repute in the market, but also incur financial losses owing to loss of control of the firm to regulators or others. This paper presents the pyramid of business responsibility with the philanthropic responsibility at the top, while ethical responsibility, legal...; Tags: financial; Presentations 2003-01-01
Business Ethics And Social Responsibility: Ethical conduct in business has an overall impact in the society in general. All legal actions are not ethical, while all unethical actions are not illegal either. Organizations have ethical responsibilities towards customers, employees, shareholders, foreign countries, and of course, employees’ have responsibilities towards the company. At the end of...; Tags: business ethics, ethics, shareholder; Presentations 2003-01-01
Take Responsibility Before It Takes You: We all love to take credit when things go right, and shift the blame when things go wrong. It’s especially tempting as a leader. The leader is perfectly positioned to blame just about anyone and anything when things go wrong. As a leader, you must take responsibility. “Take” is...; Tags: Leadership, leader; White papers 2003-01-01
Extended Product Responsibility: Extended product responsibility EPR refers to the responsibility shared by various groups, including industry, consumers, and government, for the environmental impacts of a product over its lifecycle. It is a broad principle that captures other environmental strategies, including eco-efficiency, design for the environment DfE, supply chain environmental management, and product...; Tags: strategy, supply chain, environment, industry; White papers 2003-01-01
Leadership & Management: Leadership in any organization is vital for the success of the organization. Some of the leadership triad, which forms an element, is responsibility, accountability, and authority. In addition, delegation includes variety and magnitude of responsibilities, discretion/range of choice allowed in carrying out responsibilities, authority to take action/implement decisions. Some...; Tags: delegation, leadership, accountability; Presentations 2003-01-01
Sales Success or Failure - Whose Fault Is It?: From the executive summary: 'No one operates in a void within any organization. However, any organization is just that. A group of people aligned for a specific set of purposes. How well that organization functions is a not one, single person's or even the organization's responsibility. Instead, it is the...; Tags: Sales strategy, sales; White papers 2003-01-01
Taking Responsibility for Teamwork: This article shows how contrary to popular belief, teamwork is not just a group process. It's a personal responsibility and skill-especially in this new and "flatter" work world of teaming, partnering, and collaborating. Today all work is teamwork, and the challenge is to perform when sharing responsibility to get...; Tags: Team management, teamwork; White papers 2003-01-01
The Impact of Social Responsibility on Business Performance: This paper presents social responsibility of business organizations not as a "nice to do"' gesture but rather as a critical driver of corporate performance. The paper proposes a perspective on how social responsibility is currently perceived by the global business community, how it is defined and measured. The paper then...; Tags: Performance management, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., performance, best practice, environment; White papers 2002-12-30
Lessons Learned From Three Generations of Technology Contracts: Drafting Tips for Financial Institution Transactions: As insurance companies, banks and other financial institutions are faced with competing pressures?for example, increasing performance while also cutting costs?according to the paper one is continuing to see a dramatic increase in the importance of CIOs, CTOs and their staffs. Responsibilities that used to be handled by lowly MIS directors...; Tags: Financial services, Financial Planning, financial company, MIS, risk management, financial, insurance, bank, IP, performance; White papers 2002-08-01
The Ethics of Innovations in Alternative Service Delivery: The Case of the Management of Canada's Irradiated Nuclear Fuel: The basic ethical assumption of this paper is that public sector innovations based on values of business ought to be coupled with legislative or regulatory assurances that values of distributive justice will be upheld in the delivery of public services. Where the responsibility for the delivery of a public service...; Tags: public service, public sector, ethics; White papers 2002-02-10
Obiligations And Responsibilities Of Selling: Anyone in business, be they a business, practice, school, government (yes, schools and government are big business) or individuals have obligations and responsibilities. This article reviews what usinesses' or individual's obligations and responsibilities are to their customers. Business is not all one-sided and while there are obligations and responsibilities owed...; Tags: Vertical industries, government; White papers 2002-01-01
Managing Social Responsibility And Ethics: Typically, there are four critical criteria ethical decision-making—Utilitarianism, Individualism, Rights approach and Justice approach. A company may have to identify the relevant area to judge ethics of business decisions. This paper provides a brief tutorial on how companies can manage business ethics and social responsibility. It also gives a few...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, McGraw-Hill Companies, ethics, decision-making, business ethics, benefit, strategy; Presentations 2002-01-01
Quality Performance vs.Poor Performance: This article mainly focus upon Quality Performance vs Poor Performance in an organisation. Quality managers can hire quality employees by using a simple hiring process. The process is simple and constitutes responsible hiring on the part of the manager. For the innovative manager, the hiring process includes more than merely...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Refresher Publications, hiring, performance; White papers 2001-01-01