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. Effective governance also impacts employee commitment to ethical conduct.

Government 88

Government Culture Ethics Agile 88

Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

When instructional design consulting professionals align stories with organizational goals, they foster a learning culture that promotes innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Developing strong storytelling skills can make abstract topics like leadership, ethics, and innovation more tangible and memorable.

Training 130

Training Training Case Study Case Studies 130

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. Who gets promoted?

Ethics 71

Ethics Company Policies Sales 71

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.

Ethics 70

Ethics Culture Agile Exercises 70

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.

Leadership 128

Leadership Banking Ethics Culture 128

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.

Ethics 133

Ethics Comparison Banking Study 133

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.

Data 187

Data Analysis Efficiency Survey 187

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?

Ethics 118

Ethics Engineering Culture Case Study 118

Consulting and Organizational Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Managing Boundaries in Systems By Jim Smith on September 28, 2010. Organization Development is all about change in work systems. Everybody talks about systems but what does that mean? General Systems Theory is an organizational theory. Look around and you will see “systems” everywhere. Guest Writer Submissions.

System 66

System Management Organizational Development Nonprofit 66

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.

Ethics 70

Ethics Training Training Exercises 70

Management Consulted

MARCH 18, 2015

IMS HEALTH INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . A breakthrough occurred in 1979 when they introduced the Multinational Integrated Data Analysis (MIDAS) system. IMS CONSULTING GROUP CULTURE . You will be surprised to find that the highest number of applicants are through the online system, followed closely by campus recruiting.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Consulting 100

Consulting and Organizational Management

JULY 26, 2010

Systems Thinking- What’s That? It was 1968 when an obscure academic at the University of Edmonton, Ludwig Von Bertalanffy, publish the book General Systems Theory. It was the first major look at the foundations and applications of systems thinking across a broad array of practical and scientific fields. Living Systems.

System 54

System Management Organizational Development Nonprofit 54

Consulting and Organizational Management

AUGUST 16, 2010

Systems View: A Social-Technical Perspective By Jim Smith on August 16, 2010. We need just a bit more theory before we can take the next step, which is broadening this monologue on systems from theory to principles of re-design and change. Organization as a Socio-Technical System. The human system operates the technology.

System 57

System Consulting Organizational Development Methodologies 57

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. Unfortunately, in our view, it’s not likely that business schools will redesign performance management systems to include the metrics we listed above.

Research 131

Research Journal Ethics Metrics 131

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?

Recruiting 140

Recruiting Recruitment Finance Agile 140

Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 17, 2010

Designing and Building Real-Time Learning Systems By Jim Smith on May 17, 2010. ” The response to the second question is on the one hand, “isolated problems,” and on the other hand, “whole systems.”. Without thinking systemically, most people were trying to do the best they could within their areas of influence.

System 57

System Consulting Organizational Development Nonprofit 57

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Secondly, the bribery scandal indicates that there was a culture within BCG’s Lisbon office that either tolerated or encouraged unethical behaviour. The revelation that the firm engaged in bribery to secure contracts in Angola raises concerns about its commitment to ethical standards and the integrity of its business practices.

Ethics 97

Ethics Boston Consulting Group Government Financial 97

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.

Ethics 128

Ethics Video Case Interview Survey 128

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.

Case Interview 131

Case Interview Fashion Culture Insurance 131

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

.” In 2012 the Commonwealth Bank restructured its evaluation system so that 75% of CEO incentives came from the bank’s total shareholder return (TSR), relative to a set peer group, and 25% from customer-satisfaction results, benchmarked against another peer group. ” Now a full 50% of the assessment was subjective.

Financial 120

Financial Banking Metrics Benchmarking 120

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 9, 2016

The book is definitely addressed to entrepreneurs, but even if you aren’t planning on starting a business, author Dale Partridge has some great insights on our culture of consumerism, as well as what makes healthy culture in business. Partridge begins by suggesting that the system is broken. What system? QUICK OVERVIEW.

Automotive 100

Automotive Efficiency Culture System 100

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.

Culture 59

Culture Survey Policies Benchmarking 59

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?

Culture 59

Culture Ethics Data Groups 59

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

External standards can also be a powerful tool in support of those efforts, helping companies strengthen ethics and compliance practices by offering a clear framework for action. And consumers are placing a higher and higher value on whether a company has ethical practices, too.

Company 70

Company Ethics Tools Operations 70

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In 2018, NAVEX Global, the leading provider of whistleblower hotline and incident management systems, provided us secure, anonymized access to more than 1.2 We found that a one standard deviation increase in the use of an internal reporting system is associated with 6.9% But that’s not the case. fewer pending lawsuits and 20.4%

Research 131

Research Company System Report 131

Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 11, 2022

No leader strives to create a toxic culture. A doctor – let's call him Strange – was a newly hired surgeon employed by a cash-strapped healthcare system. A doctor – let's call him Strange – was a newly hired surgeon employed by a cash-strapped healthcare system. Leaders need to be concerned about toxic culture.

Culture 52

Culture Company Healthcare Leadership 52

Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

BearingPoint Interview and Culture. Read on to discover interesting nuances of culture and competence that are unique to the global consulting firm. BearingPoint was also in the midst of integrating all of its international acquisitions into the old system. BEARINGPOINT CULTURE. Preparing for a BearingPoint interview?

BearingPoint 139

BearingPoint Interviews Oliver Wyman Capgemini 139

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Class-based bias, just like gender- and racial-based biases, can seep into workplace systems and artificially hinder the career success of those groups. Here are some examples of common workplace systems and processes that can get tainted by class-based bias: Hiring, Onboarding, and Culture Fit. What is culture fit?

Company 132

Company Resumes Sports Culture 132

Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

And with Bain’s globally-recognized social culture, Vault ranked Bain as the Best Place to Work in 2015. As one of the oldest and most storied cities in North America, Boston is full of historic sites and leading cultural institutions which the employees and their families enjoy on holidays or weekends.

Oliver Wyman 72

Oliver Wyman Mercer Consulting Deloitte 72

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In virtually every country across the globe, a broad range of governmental and ethical issues directly and immediately shape what companies can and cannot do. CEO acumen on business-in-society issues is thus imperative in addressing fundamental corporate issues, from business strategy to compliance to ethical standards to risk management.

Ethics 70

Ethics Policies Government Examples 70

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The tech industry remains very male and fairly culturally homogeneous. People building AI test their systems for utility, safety, and scalability, with a focus on eliminating product flaws and security vulnerabilities. Eliminating Biases in AI: The People. This lack of diversity is reflected in the products it produces.

Engineering 131

Engineering Talent Productivity Ethics 131

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2013

4 years later, Sogeti acquired both CAP, its major European competitor, and Gemini Computer Systems. CAPGEMINI CONSULTING CULTURE. Capgemini Consulting is not the best place to end your career; again, the pay (limited) and lack of cohesive firm culture don’t match up even to major industry positions. Diversity Programs.

Capgemini 192

Capgemini Interviews Consulting Accenture 192

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

We now have AI systems that learn from vast amounts of complex, unstructured information and turn it into actionable insight. We also expect AI systems to pervasively support the decisions we make in our professional and personal lives in just a few years. And it often makes us a little uncomfortable.

Ethics 70

Ethics System Data Development 70

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. Their contributions are recognized.

Leadership 68

Leadership Ethics Culture Data 68

Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

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. Journal of Business Ethics 113 , p. link] Parris, D.L. & & Peachey, J.W.

McKinsey 98

McKinsey Sports Ethics Leadership 98

Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Is the business getting started, i.e., new in a market OR has it been so successful and grown fast that it needs internal systems? Focus on leadership and managment “systems/structures,” not on people (which can be hard to do with today’s infatuation with heroic leaders. Business Ethics, Culture and Performance.

Consulting 76

Consulting Organizational Development Nonprofit Small Business 76

LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Competitive or Collaborative Culture in the Workplace. When designing the ideal organizational culture to best execute your business and people strategies, what is the best balance between healthy competition to motivate performance and smart collaboration to ensure that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts?

Culture 39

Culture Ethics Accenture McKinsey 39