Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Supreme Court, once said , “Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is right to do.” While the benefits are clearly far-reaching and potentially game changing, there are ethical questions to consider. Every organization and country has its own privacy culture and definition.

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Clarity Consultants

APRIL 16, 2025

This article explores the challenges of traditional onboarding, the benefits of eLearning solutions, and how companies can measure success. This inconsistency leaves new hires uncertain about expectations, company culture, and resources, slowing their adjustment period.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2019

Reward the right behavior and promote the right people, for starters.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2016

We all have the tendency to look at other cultures through the lens of our own. In my experience working and teaching across cultures, I’ve noticed one important area where this frequently causes conflicts: deadlines. Western cultures tend to view time as linear , with a definitive beginning and end. Pamela Hinds.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To find and make the most of this talent, companies need to be good at five disciplines: strategic hiring, zero tolerance for people who violate their ethics, a focus on potential, alignment of HR processes, and values-based succession at the top.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. But what role does culture play in corporate misconduct, and why do these problematic cultures persist?

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In this article, well explore why works, how to use it effectively, and tools to bring it to life in your eLearning initiatives. When instructional design consulting professionals align stories with organizational goals, they foster a learning culture that promotes innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Effective governance can serve as the bedrock of organizational culture, which shapes perceptions, attitudes, and interactions throughout the organisational hierarchy, between departments, and within project teams. This article aims to shed light on the power of governance and how to create a transformative governance structure.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Trust and openness are crucial elements of an ethical organizational culture. Only when employees are able to voice the problems they see can ethical lapses be discussed and resolved. Moral attentiveness: This describes the extent to which individuals are aware of the various ethical dilemmas at hand.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 29, 2016

However, one of the more unsettling and unintended consequences of a singular focus on ethics-as-compliance is a checkbox mentality that gives the illusion of reducing risk without really doing so. So what can a company do to excel ethically? Plato emphasized a virtue-based system of ethics 2,400 years ago in his Academy.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. But it’s also the responsibility of the company to cultivate a culture that shuns corner-cutting and prevents it from accumulating into major scandals, ones that damage the credibility of the business, endanger jobs, and threaten the entire enterprise.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2016

They learn that organizational failures result from rigid reporting lines, “one right way” problem-solving, cultures that shoot – or specify unreasonable standards for – the messenger, and restrictive communications protocols. Have we created collaborative, learning-focused cultures?

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Ethics Engineering Culture Case Study 129

Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

From 2007-2011, forced turnovers due to ethical lapses were 3.9% On a regional basis, the share of all successions attributable to ethical lapses rose most sharply in the U.S. We see five reasons for the rise of ethics-based dismissals. of all successions at the world’s 2,500 largest public companies. to 8.8%).

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Effective Managers

MARCH 10, 2024

This distinction is crucial, as it separates those who simply sell hours for dollars from those committed to a higher standard of service, ethics, and accountability. While this model has its merits, including flexibility and a wide array of services, it lacks a unified set of standards or ethical guidelines.

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Epicflow

JULY 12, 2022

During the recent decade, companies have been making efforts to transform their business processes and culture to turn into data-driven organizations. . Data privacy, ethics, and security will be treated as areas of required competency. Cultural challenges. Culture in this case refers to people, processes, and change management.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the conundrums of ethical decision making is that many moral decisions that are quite straightforward — even easy — to resolve in a classroom or during training exercises seem far more difficult to successfully resolve when confronted during actual day-to-day decision making. You and Your Team Series. Mark Chussil.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2018

At the same time, the need to win can blind us to ethical considerations. In one study, we asked 164 MBA students to read a hypothetical scenario (based on a true story) about an investment banker facing an ethical dilemma, and to estimate the likelihood that this banker would indulge in unethical behavior. Our Studies Study 1.

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Ethics Comparison Banking Study 133

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The post-scandal scrutiny of Wells Fargo’s culture has so far focused on the high-pressure sales environment that drove employees to create as many as two million fake accounts. Along with fixing the sales culture, the bank will have to address these critical management issues to prevent the next scandal.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 4, 2021

Business ethics have existed since bartering started, with philosophers from Aristotle to Rawls discussing concepts of justice in monetary terms. In a modern sense, business ethics started in the United States in the 1970s with the rise of anti-big business protest groups. Cultural differences. No one knows if the man survived.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

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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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

This fits hand in hand with their culture of treating new hires as potential Partners, offering them opportunities early on to engage in important projects. The firm is an excellent launch pad for individuals with an excellent work ethic and aspirations of rapid career growth. OLIVER WYMAN CULTURE.

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The Consultants Peer Group

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Over a short two-day span several consulting related articles caught my attention. First, Confessions of a Whistleblower by Garrison Lovely highlighted several cultural problems at the consulting firm, McKinsey. Consider, there is a third way to truly separate yourself from the masses and brand you as a professional. Stay tuned.

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Ethics Consulting McKinsey Government 98

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2018

respond to those incentives will have limited generalizability, and may not be at all relevant in most work contexts or in other cultures. For example, if a researcher wants to understand how employees respond to particular incentives, the results of a study measuring how undergraduate students in the U.S.

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Research Journal Ethics Metrics 132

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2019

And what to do about it.

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Culture Ethics Management 132

Eupnea Management Consulting

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Article Driving Business Response to the Impact of Covid-19: Strengthening Organisational Culture Follow us on Linkedin: FOLLOW A rebalancing act bringing cohesion across all and distant parts What is the impact? Today, the current pandemic has challenged every business about the very essence and value of their organisational culture.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Second, treat purpose as an organizing principle that guides company structure, strategy, and culture. First, tell a big story about what your organization believes in and what it is trying to accomplish. Third, model courageous, purpose-driven leadership yourself.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2017

A recent merger has shifted the organization’s culture from one that values collaboration as a way of achieving high performance to one that encourages intense competition. His religious and cultural values contrast sharply with many of the values held by the majority of his colleagues and superiors in his organization.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

Immigration does not merely increase the size of the population in the destination country; it also increases demographic and cultural diversity, particularly when immigrants have come from very distant countries. In fact, whether cultural diversity carries more economic benefits than costs is still a hotly disputed question among scholars.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We found that people’s preferences differed according to the length of time they were considering — and according to their culture. Last, we wanted to test whether the pattern we saw among all of our American participants generalized to other cultures. Why this consistency?

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Ethics Study Culture Journal 133

Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

Jones’ offer was rescinded when she refused to get rid of her dreadlocks, a hairstyle that the firm deemed a poor fit for its culture. In this example, organizational culture and the legal system mutually reinforce the idea that non-Eurocentric hair is unprofessional. Now, let’s look at a different visual cue.

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Asamby Consulting

JUNE 2, 2022

Welcoming the decade of Organizational Culture. This article will explore the rise of organizational culture as a key element for healthy organizations, and how it can become a competitive advantage for SMEs. One culture is always present. In which way did it affect work ethic and performance throughout the year?

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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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Harvard Business

JUNE 9, 2017

Guided by a refreshed ethical framework, pharmaceutical companies, in partnership with researchers and clinicians, can help accelerate the spread of knowledge of new clinical science, which now is notoriously slow. Disclaimer: This article represents solely the views of the authors and not the institutions with which they are affiliated.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 7, 2024

The Society for Human Resources Management (or SHRM) has recently published a few articles on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in employment. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (or EEOC) has provided some technical guidelines on using AI to avoid adverse impact on employment selection.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

90% of them reference ethical behavior or use the word “integrity,” 88% mention commitment to customers, and 76% cite teamwork and trust. According to the Booz Allen Hamilton and Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program researchers , most corporations’ values incorporate similar words and ideas.

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Ethics B2C B2B Company 136

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Researchers found a correlation between photos of loved ones and ethical behavior.

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Ethics Research Culture 91

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

When this award structure reached the end of its four-year performance period, on June 30, 2016, in response to the ethical scandals within the bank’s life insurance arm , the bank’s board took yet another step to include even more subjective measures. ” Now a full 50% of the assessment was subjective.

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