Harvard Business

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Most companies have ethics and compliance policies that get reviewed and signed annually by all employees. “Employees are charged with conducting their business affairs in accordance with the highest ethical standards,” reads one such example. Creating an Ethical Workplace. You and Your Team Series. Mark Chussil.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.” You’ll Never Convince a Skeptic.

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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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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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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.

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Effective Managers

MARCH 27, 2024

In an industry that spans diverse cultures and business practices, having a common standard is vital for maintaining a uniform level of quality and professionalism. Fostering Ethical Practices and Transparency Ethical practices and transparency are at the heart of ISO 20700.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

The swift discipline of employees who violate ethical standards is recommended. This is the case even in organizations that on the whole are considered highly ethical. In our third study, we took into account the organization’s ethical environment and still found the same pattern of results.

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Effective Managers

MAY 10, 2024

This universal standard is a potent tool in a global market, ensuring clients that the quality and professionalism they receive from you meet consistently high standards, regardless of their location. When clients trust in your expertise and ethical approach, they are more inclined to engage your services and recommend you to others.

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IMC USA

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Moreover, in July a personal trip to Russia gave me the opportunity to meet with four IMC members from that country. Leverage Ethics for Professional Success. Surveys of consultants and clients confirm that ethics are the foundation of what it means to be a “trusted advisor.” Visit the IMC USA Ethics page here.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The Wells Fargo fake accounts scandal drew a lot of media attention, particularly around the intense pressure on staff to meet sales goals. Several Wells Fargo employees alleged that they had surfaced concerns about the pressure to meet impossible sales targets at branch offices.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

I attended a meeting led by the VP of construction for a company for which I was the VP of marketing. I joined the meeting virtually from another part of the building via Microsoft Teams. After the meeting, he called me back into the conference room. The president of the company sat beside the VP in the same room. Gildan Media.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

And mostly, they don’t always know how to adapt their behavior to meet their employee’s work and emotional needs. ” In our disconnected culture, we are starved for community. If you are a consultant or coach who want to serve your client and the people who are impacted by your work ethically, then you are not alone.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

When lacking, company performance and culture suffer. An organizational culture of accountability is architected. Here are five psychological levers for creating workplace accountability and making it a part of your company culture. In a toxic culture without accountability, employees ignore, deny, blame and play the victim.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2014

I had a few conversations about his experience, and we determined it might be a good idea for me to meet his colleagues. After meeting the group in Seattle, I determined that this was an industry and company I really wanted to work in/for. 30 minutes, questions covering my background, experience, fit, etc.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

We also know from organizational culture assessment data that one crucial attribute often distinguishes great leaders from the rest of the pack — fairness. We know from project postmortem data that leadership fairness affects organizational culture, employee performance, and employee engagement. The benefits meet their needs.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2013

In the years that followed Sogeti’s founding, the company opened offices in Switzerland and France to meet the needs of clients. CAPGEMINI CONSULTING CULTURE. With all of the rapid growth Capgemini has experienced in the last 10 years, the firm has lost some of its cohesive one-firm culture. Diversity Programs.

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Peter Stark

JULY 6, 2017

Every day we are bombarded with news about decisions made by leaders that cause us to question their integrity and ethics. We are facing a new kind of poverty – ethical leadership. Organizations and their cultures are, therefore, shaped by the values and ethics of their leaders.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 5, 2018

By under-appreciating these spillover effects, a few malignant employees can infect an otherwise healthy corporate culture. In these mergers, financial advisors meet new co-workers from one of the branches of the other firm, exposing them to new ideas and behaviors.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

When trust is sullied, rancor, animosity, and misgivings can turn a culture of cooperation into a mosh pit of dysfunction. conducting creative icebreakers at the beginning of team meetings. Ethics and empathy should be the tandem directive for conduct. Always Wear White. Be a Role Model.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2018

Working with the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, we conducted 86 in-depth interviews with women in the program, observed 36 discussion groups, and sat in on 15 program-wide meetings. ” Creating organizational cultures and policies that recognize these sacrifices is crucial. Parenthood Pressures.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 9, 2017

Within the last five to 10 years, several major professional societies considered banning or did ban industry scientists from presenting their research at annual meetings or publishing in the society’s journal regardless of the merits of the research. And continued vigilance is prudent.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

” That speaks to why they did this in the first place: To meet sales quotas and earn incentives. The culture in such sales forces may be sales-oriented and even competitive, yet salespeople still behave ethically and remain focused on meeting customers’ needs. Things escalate and spread from there. .”

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

In our first meeting, Alan recommended the book The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes & Posner. Merging insights from leading consulting firm McKinsey, academic journals, and contemporary cultural references like Ted Lasso , this blog explores the multifaceted nature of leadership to which many, if not most, organizations may wish to aspire.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2017

The Chief Operating Officer of one of the world’s biggest banks described the environment that fostered the culture that enabled the Libor and related scandals: “It all begins with the organization’s biggest lie.” So we meet someone and label them as: woman or old or American or rich. ” This lie?

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Rick Conlow

MAY 17, 2023

This type of leadership creates a culture of trust, respect, and open communication within the organization. 10 Cultural Principles of Servant Leadership Embrace the ten key principles of servant leadership. By elevating the needs of their team members, servant leaders create an environment in which employees feel valued and respected.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 21, 2011

Regardless of the name of the step or phase, the consultant can learn a great deal about the client — and even get a sense for the likelihood of the client’s participation in (and thus, success of) the project — by asking useful questions when first meeting the client. Business Ethics, Culture and Performance.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

This is the same organization where some franchisees got caught systematically underpaying vulnerable staffers, and charging for visa sponsorships , in order to meet their financial goals. Cultures like this come from the top. (The This included base pay of $AU4.7 The head office was accused of turning a blind eye to the problem.

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 31, 2022

Seldom does a day go by without another story in the media about a leader–in government, religion or business–that bites the dust because of an ethical or behavioral failure. Leaders today need to ask more questions, listen better, hold better and purposeful meetings, and engage their employees more.

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Melissa Agnes

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Meeting the demands and pressure of real-time communication. It’s also an overwhelming challenge if you aren’t adequately prepared to meet this expectation. Focus on strengthening / rebuilding the invaluable relationship you share with your stakeholders. I won’t lie.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2016

And while companies recognize the need for internal capabilities such as language and cultural adaptation skills in a new market, they tend to overlook other, less obvious internal requirements, only to discover too late that they are ill prepared for what awaits them. Training and sensitizing stakeholders on cultural differences.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 26, 2011

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Consulting and Organizational Management

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Cultural integrity – an understanding of the Asian way of life. Change Awareness and Hierarchy are clear leaders followed by Responsibility, Cultural Integrity, Consensus and Education. Business Ethics, Culture and Performance. Families – Asia is heavily focused on the family unit. What do you think? Consulting.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The organization’s previous attempts to meet its own needs were not successful, for example, the organization developed a Strategic Plan that was never implemented. Organization members continue to disagree about how to meet the need and, thus, bring in a consultant to provide expertise or facilitation skills to come to consensus. .

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 14, 2013

« Previous Next » Meet this Blog’s Co-Hosts Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organization development and consultant training services, and is developer of the Free Management Library. Business Ethics, Culture and Performance. Thus, my cynicism. Librarys Blogs. Boards of Directors.

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Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I allowed my typical goatee to return, and, on the first meeting with the team, this individual grimaced and said they didn’t remember me having a beard and that it made me look very old. This bias, predicated on age, undermines the principles of equity and diversity with potential ethical issues. link] OECD/Generation.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2017

He tolerated (and even encouraged) ethically questionable sales practices. Results looked excellent at first, but the sales culture became so unpleasant that good performers began leaving in a trickle, and then in a flood. Third, it takes time to rebuild the culture a poor leader creates. He ruled by fear.

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