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5 Signs Your Organization Might Be Headed for an Ethics Scandal

Harvard Business

Corporations often approach ethics as an individual problem, designing oversight systems to identify the “bad apples” before they can turn the organization into a “rotten barrel.” And our explanations for ethical scandals are incomplete without a focus on group dynamics. Vince Streano/Getty Images.

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When Competition Between Coworkers Leads to Unethical Behavior

Harvard Business

At the same time, the need to win can blind us to ethical considerations. In our research, recently published in the journal Human Resource Management, we found that performance evaluation schemes based on peer comparison can encourage unethical behavior. Our Studies Study 1. We invited 160 participants of U.S. Participants averaged 3.39

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People Don’t Want to Be Compared with Others in Performance Reviews. They Want to Be Compared with Themselves

Harvard Business

They also consider it fair when their evaluations are accurate and are conducted based on ethical and moral principles. We call those temporal comparison evaluations. We call those social comparison evaluations. Specifically, employees perceive the fairness of evaluation processes when they feel included and respected.

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4 Key Consulting Fit Interview Questions You Must Prepare For

Management Consulted

In thousands of hours of interview preparation every year, we find similar themes with EVERY client: you love breaking your brain for the case interview, and assume that for the the fit interviews – being more predictable by comparison – you can wing it. Au contraire, peeps. “What’s your greatest weakness?”

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

In comparison to many strategy consulting firms, Oliver Wyman consultants tend to specialize earlier in their career. The firm is an excellent launch pad for individuals with an excellent work ethic and aspirations of rapid career growth. Oliver Wyman employees are known for their passion, work ethic, and solid team efforts.

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Consultant Marketing Trust Barometer

Jerry Fletcher

What makes it more important is the ongoing comparison of results it affords the viewer and the efforts of the company to find and report on those points where the findings begin to diverge from previous norms. But is faulted on ethics. It is one of the longest running studies on Trust. Diverging Trust. Trust in the light.

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Personal Ethics -- in Consulting Offers and in Business

CaseInterview.com

My Reply: There is no right answer for everyone and depends on your personal sense of ethics. But , there will be one person out there in the world who considers you at worst dishonest, at best lacking ethics. Looking forward to hearing from you! If at all possible, try to avoid rescinding an acceptance on an offer.

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