| Are You Selling Out Your Integrity? by Nick Arrizza, M.D. | | Integrity in business is a quality that is highly under-rated by executives these days. Many executives are so "pushed and pulled" by a not so hidden force called the "profit motive" that they often find themselves compromising something that without which they could lose all credibility and ... Full Article | | Views: 268; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 660; Article Characters Count: 3917 |
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| Business Ethics: An Oxymoron by Nick Arrizza, M.D. | | An oxymoron: the juxtaposition of contradictory words or concepts. That is what we have with the term "Business Ethics." The very contradiction that is inherent in this latter phrase is an indication of the challenge that individuals who work for organizations face as we all approach the resource... Full Article | | Views: 328; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 1117; Article Characters Count: 6176 |
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| Business Ethics: An Oxymoron? by Harry Hoover | | Why do I believe good PR and business ethics are inextricably linked? It comes down to definitions. Ethics is learning what is right and what is wrong and then doing the "right thing." PR involves providing counsel on the "right thing" to do and then helping the organization get credit for it. Full Article | | Views: 341; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 236; Article Characters Count: 1337 |
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| Business Ethics: How The Sales Function Can Transmit Company Values by Sharon Drew Morgen | | I recently got a "thank-you" call from a man who read my new e-book Buying Facilitation. "Boy," he said, "this method sure helps me close more deals and make more money. Thanks!" "Glad I could help. Is that all you're looking for? To make more money?" "What do you mean...all? ... Full Article | | Views: 356; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 2365; Article Characters Count: 13389 |
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| Business Ethics: The Law of Corporate Karma by Jeremiah P. Huck | | According to the shamanic traditions, the great mystery of being is that all things are alive and have a level of intelligence. This is because all things are a part of the Great Spirit. However, all things also function individually, in thought and action. It is in these individual actions that ... Full Article | | Views: 474; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 457; Article Characters Count: 2606 |
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| Enron's Ultimate Victim: Ethics by Paul Shearstone | | FROM the 'MORAL HIGH GROUND', where we imagine ourselves, the Enron fiasco should have come as no surprise. Enron is simply a quintessential example of the degradation of principles such as trust, loyalty and ethical standards. Why it happened,however,is what really needs to be understood ... Full Article | | Views: 213; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 699; Article Characters Count: 4321 |
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| Ethics in Business - Please Have Some by Scott Sedwick | | Is your business ethical? What I mean is "Does your business do the right
thing when faced with that decision?" It's a
simple question, which many businesses struggle
with. I just don't understand the struggle part? I have worked for companies that believed they were
ethical, and ... Full Article | | Views: 293; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 680; Article Characters Count: 3828 |
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| Ethics in Business...A Lost Art by Sue And Chuck DeFiore | | While watching Face the Nation one Sunday earlier this year, Bob Schiffer discussed the airline industry, his mother and ethics in business. Like Bob, I think it is a sad commentary today, that we have to police businesses. Whatever happened to going into business to provide a needed service, ... Full Article | | Views: 477; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 678; Article Characters Count: 3857 |
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| Ethics In The Workplace by Myron Curry | | Workplace Ethics is a subject that we have all heard of. In fact, the subject of Ethics in general is something that most people are familiar with. And, what is commonly understood about ethics is there are ethics and then there are workplace ethics. What most people don't realize, however, is ... Full Article | | Views: 322; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 875; Article Characters Count: 4868 |
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| Ethics? How To Take the Measure Business by Patty Baldwin | | When asked to write a small piece pertaining to ethics and integrity in the business world, my first inclination was to draw on personal experience. Everyone has bad experiences to relate. We deal with a business, determine that we were treated shabbily therefore that business has no ... Full Article | | Views: 406; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 489; Article Characters Count: 2826 |
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| How To Build A Business Ethics Program by Chris Anderson | | Recent corporate financial scandals have highlighted the importance of business ethics and legal compliance. Yet a recent National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) survey of 280 corporate CEOs and directors found that "only one of three directors felt that they were highly effective in ... Full Article | | Views: 457; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 529; Article Characters Count: 3289 |
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| Laws and Ethics... Who's Kidding Who? by Paul Shearstone | | Years ago I read an article by a renowned psychologist wherein he wrote his studies found one percent of all human beings would never lie, cheat or steal. One percent would always lie, cheat or steal and given the right set of circumstances, the rest of us would likely lie, cheat and/or steal. Full Article | | Views: 71; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 1587; Article Characters Count: 9184 |
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| MacDonalidisation: Braverman, Taylor & Mayo by Michael Hart | | Background:
George Ritzer defined McDonaldization as ."..the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurants are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world." For our purposes, MacDonaldisation is a process of ... Full Article | | Views: 492; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 787; Article Characters Count: 4762 |
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| No Credit is Due: Bad Telemarketing by Greg Gagliardi | | Just a few minutes ago I was debating what to write about this week - something interesting, perhaps, or maybe it was about time to give some credit to snails, I thought. Then, by some random stroke of luck, fate or writer's lightning (a term I created just now), I received a phone call from a ... Full Article | | Views: 484; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 616; Article Characters Count: 3202 |
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| Private Carrier Pepsi Embraces Diversity Amongst Employees by Margaret Wommack | | Many companies claim to be committed to diversity, but private carrier Pepsico has proven their desire for a diverse employee base. With the progression of globalization in the world, Pepsi continues to embrace and value diversity in customers, suppliers and employees. If you are interested in ... Full Article | | Views: 265; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 318; Article Characters Count: 2072 |
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| Protect Your Laptop from Theft by Ted Demopoulos | | Laptop computers are often stolen. They are small, easily sold, and valuable. When a laptop is stolen it is a major inconvenience at best, and if company confidential data gets into the wrong hands the results can be truly catastrophic. Many professionals use a laptop, often transporting it... Full Article | | Views: 345; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 376; Article Characters Count: 2100 |
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| Selling Truth as a Differentiator by Lawrence Groves | | The last few years have been a period of heightened scrutiny and scandal for the financial services industry. Most recently, the SEC issued a report on pension consultants regarding conflicts of interest and the objectivity of advice given to retirement plan sponsors. It's become vital to the ... Full Article | | Views: 463; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 480; Article Characters Count: 2932 |
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| Six Reasons to Give by Martin Cohn | | If you run a business, you undoubtedly feel many pressures
on your time and money. Why would you want to add "giving
to the community" to your "to do" list? Here are six reasons
... 1. It feels good. Making contributions to the community is
personally rewarding. Our values are ... Full Article | | Views: 92; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 291; Article Characters Count: 1896 |
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| Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: Diversity And Success, In The Workplace by Josh Greenberg | | This article relates to the Diversity in the Workplace Competency, commonly evaluated in employee satisfaction surveys. This competency explores whether your organization provides understanding and supports interaction among diverse population groups while respecting individuals' personal values ... Full Article | | Views: 163; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 651; Article Characters Count: 4004 |
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| Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: Work Ethics and the Customer by Josh Greenberg | | This article relates to the Ethics in the Workplace competency, commonly evaluated in employee surveys. It gives examples of how employees and customers consider ethical behavior and sound values an integral part of your organization. This competency covers a variety of topics like customer ... Full Article | | Views: 373; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 603; Article Characters Count: 3477 |
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| The Need to Survive; A Death Knell For Organizations by Nick Arrizza, M.D. | | Changing the driving force upon which business decisions are based is crucial in order to not only restore ethics in business but to truly improve the lives of those whom they were meant to benefit: executives, employees and consumers. After all, weren't business activities meant to improve the ... Full Article | | Views: 332; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 590; Article Characters Count: 3493 |
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| The Only Thing You Get for Free in Life is Hungry. by John Dyer | | My grandfather was a very wise man. Simple but wise. He once told me "The only thing you get in life for free is hungry." There is a lot of truth in that. I see it all the time online and offline that people are looking for the perverbial "free ride." Online it takes the form of "get ... Full Article | | Views: 440; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 653; Article Characters Count: 3389 |
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| The Social Implications of Computing by Michael Hart | | Directed by Mark Harrison, "Visions of Heaven and Hell" is a three-part cautionary tale come documentary commissioned by Channel Four, that warns of the impending infiltration of technology and pessimistically endeavours to communicate the sentient of an old Buddhist proverb which states "To ... Full Article | | Views: 95; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 2016; Article Characters Count: 12345 |
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| The Three Schools of Business Ethics by Michael Neill | | G. Richard Shell, author of Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People, identifies three primary schools of ethics in negotiation. To me, they are equally valuable in examining ethics in the context of business in general. 1. The Poker School - "It's a Game" Full Article | | Views: 480; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 640; Article Characters Count: 3665 |
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| The Views of Karl Marx VS Max Weber by Michael Hart | | Compare and contrast the views of Karl Marx and Max Weber with regards as to what motivates people to work. Karl Marx:
[1] Exploitation [2] Proletariat have to sell their labour-power [3] The machines of the industrial revolution eliminate creativity require only the ... Full Article | | Views: 154; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 481; Article Characters Count: 2903 |
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| What is a Ponzi Scheme? by Mike Jolley | | This is for those who don't believe me when I talk about the dangers of "mystery money" schemes. The terms "pyramid scheme" and "Ponzi scheme" are used almost interchangeably. However, the scheme for which Charles Ponzi is most remembered was not a pyramid. If you aren't aware of the... Full Article | | Views: 315; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 485; Article Characters Count: 2681 |
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| Work Ethics – A Paradigm Shift by Leanne Hoagland-Smith | | Work ethics is a hot topic in today's business and educational worlds. Yet, how do we define this hybrid phrase with the word work meaning more than a specific outcome and the word ethics being more than the values that enhance that outcome? When we say we are going to work, work becomes ... Full Article | | Views: 277; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 570; Article Characters Count: 3536 |
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| Top 10 Principles for Positive Business Ethics by Philip E. Humbert | | This morning, I read about a company using on-line auctions to defraud customers. Last week, I consulted on an ethics complaint where a business coach betrayed a client's confidentiality. And, recently a Physician was convicted of insider trading based on information from a patient, a violation ... Full Article | | Views: 434; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 764; Article Characters Count: 4609 |
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