The authors explored the role of goal setting in motivating unethical behavior in a laboratory experiment. It was found that people with unmet goals were more likely to engage in unethical behavior than people attempting to do their best. This relationship held for goals both with and without economic incentives....
It may not be right, but we often overlook unethical behavior in others. In a recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Max Bazerman and colleagues explain the psychological reasons why this is so, and what companies can do about it. The paper, See No Evil: When...
Unethical behavior in business imposes a variety of economic costs, including weakened trust in the marketplace and a heavier burden of compliance carried by the vast majority of businesses that have always played by the rules, said Jack Guynn, Atlan Unethical behavior in business imposes a...
The white paper presents an investigation that talks about size and quality of the networks of firms engaging in illegal and unethical acts are affected by those acts. Using legitimacy, status and resource dependent theories it hypothesizes that size will be affected and quality will deteriorate. Using a sample of...
Her efforts exposing illegal and unethical behavior brought down Enron - and now, area businesspeople will have the opportunity to hear her story.Her efforts exposing illegal and unethical behavior brought down Enron - and now, area businesspeople will have the opportunity to hear her story.
From the executive summary: ‘The trouble with demanding ethical behavior is that unless those doing the demanding heed their own words, the call rings hollow. In fact, it is likely to do more damage than good if one is going to proclaim such behavior, but practice otherwise. Sadly, at best,...
WASHINGTON, July 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Karl Rove's involvement in leaking the name of a CIA operative for political advantage during wartime could be just the tip of the iceberg as far as unethical behavior, since his web of influence extends to the most WASHINGTON, July 14 /U.S. Newswire/ --...
This paper examines and discusses the costs of unethical behavior for the corporation, for the perpetrators, and for other stakeholders that are potentially catastrophic: insolvency decimated stock values, ruined reputations, monetary fines, jail terms, resignations, reduced orders, and massive layoffs. Sometimes the ethics issue involves excessive compensation arising from the...
There has been much work attempting to develop a general theory of leadership. Trait, transactional, transformational, path-goal, contingency and situational theories, all abound. These theoretical constructs seek to both define and explain leadership. Without a theoretical foundation of support, the concept of ethical leadership is impotent to guide human behavior....
Leaders teach organizational values to every new member of the organization. These values establish the foundation of the leaders' character. Once members learn these values, their leaders enforce adherence. Unethical behavior destroys morale and cohesion and undermines the trust and confidence essential to teamwork and goal accomplishment. Ethical conduct must...
CHICAGO -- Although compliance programs, internal reporting and policies can address the surface issues surrounding business ethics, the real problems often go deeper. Appropriately, the Engagement feature in the March issue of Workforce Performance Solutions magazine examines how ensuring that leadership walks the talk is part of making ethical corporate...
It has been observed that the ethical exposure—any risk a company takes by behaving unethically—is not mentioned in risk management textbooks. Yet, unethical behavior can expose a company to potential property loss, liability torts and other risks. The risk manager need not be reminded of the criminal and civil lawsuits...
From Baseball to Accounting: Why We Encourage Unethical Behavioranswer to: why we aencourage unehtical behaviorAs a speaker, executive coach and trainer for Ethical, CSR and Sustainability conferences & workshops I have presented, The Ethical Enterprise, A Global Study, 2005-2015, work that I had researched and authored for the American Management...
WASHINGTON -- Six years after high-profile corporate scandals rocked American business, there has been little if any meaningful reduction in the enterprise-wide risk of unethical behavior at U.S. companies, according to the Ethics Resource Center's 2007 National Business Ethics Survey[R]. ERC is a private, nonprofit organization whose research and advocacy...
Ethical behavior is not a global standard. In some geographies, paying a bribe is not considered an ethical or moral issue -- it's just the cost of doing business. So should you pay the bribe, too? Harvard Business School professor Bill George makes the...
Sexual harassment exists at all levels within an organization in relationships categorized as male-to-female, male-to-male, female-to-male, and female-to-female. Through research, there have been attempts to conceptualize sexual harassment. In a recent review, Lengnick-Hall (1995) identified several frameworks apparent in current research: gender approaches, role approaches, power approaches, and demographic approaches....
Few years back, a stock market disaster cost ordinary investors trillions of dollars at the hands of a small group of deceptive business leaders. The Enron scandal and other similar scandals damaged investors' confidence in the accuracy of corporate financial statements. In response to the public outrage, Senator Paul Sarbanes...
The new corporate reforms mandate strong, effective reporting systems that allow employees to blow the whistle on audit and legal irregularities. Yet many corporations still have internal feedback system that fail to measure up. Unless the employees feel free to report illegal or unethical behavior, easily and anonymously, top managers...
Here's a good one: Coach bags doesn't like that its trademarked products are so often counterfeited and sold as real. So as part of its anti-counterfeiting initiative, it teams up with a college PR class to create a fake blog about a college student who loses her genuine Coach bag,...
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