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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. But must employees, investors, and other constituents accept harmful employment cultures in fast-growth organizations until a crisis occurs?

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Incentives vs Integrity: The BCG Bribery Scandal

Tom Spencer

Between 2011 and 2017, Boston Consulting Group ( BCG ), which is one of the world’s leading management consulting firms, engaged in high level bribery in Angola. Secondly, the bribery scandal indicates that there was a culture within BCG’s Lisbon office that either tolerated or encouraged unethical behaviour.

Ethics 97
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Recruiters You Should Meet to Staff for Success

Harmonious Workplaces

Retained search firms and recruiters play a crucial role in attracting and retaining human capital in organizations across cultures (Allen & Vardaman, 2017). However, I have found that the best results came from working with highly motivated, strongly competent, and extremely ethical recruiters who own and operate small businesses.

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Company Culture: Are You Tolerating Toxicity?

Organizational Talent Consulting

No leader strives to create a toxic culture. Leaders need to be concerned about toxic culture. Here are five signs of a toxic culture and two detoxing steps every leader can take. Why Leaders Need to be Concerned About a Toxic Culture. Company culture is the one thing that influences every aspect of a business.

Culture 52
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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

The Empathy Index seeks to answer the question: Which companies are successfully creating empathetic cultures? We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. How do you go about infusing your company culture with more empathy?

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Nurturing Psychological Safety in the Workplace Through an Age-Diverse Lens

Harmonious Workplaces

Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Leaders who embrace and leverage the strengths of each generation through intentional collaboration and reverse mentoring build a workplace culture that prioritizes psychological safety. Lester et al. Baby Boomers may tie psychological safety to job security and respect for hierarchy.

Journal 96
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How Men Get Penalized for Straying from Masculine Norms

Harvard Business

A study from 2017 found that men who cry at work are perceived as more emotional and less competent than women who cry. In addition, given the many benefits of humility , organizations should create a culture where men who are humble are praised. What happens when they show emotions other than anger? So what can leaders do?

Research 132