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Nonprofit CEO Search: Strategies for Finding Mission-Driven Leaders

N2Growth Blog

They lead with integrity, ensuring ethical decision-making remains at the forefront, even in challenging situations. Ethical Leadership: A commitment to ethical decision-making, ensuring the organization operates with integrity, transparency, and accountability. Use a consistent set of questions to facilitate comparison.

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Pfizer’s Straight Talk on Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

In comparison, the word “employees” makes people sound more like a means to an end in order to achieve business results rather than unique individuals worthy of respect in and of themselves. People are more committed and loyal to an organization that is ethical. The word “colleagues” conveys a greater level of respect for people.

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When Competition Between Coworkers Leads to Unethical Behavior

Harvard Business Review

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. We invited 160 participants of U.S.

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The Big Picture of Business – What Business Must Learn: Putting.

Strategy Driven

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. In order to complete the chain, organizations must insist that suppliers, professional services counselors and vendors show demonstrated quality programs, as well as ethics statements. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Faster innovation.

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The Big Flaw in Corporate Sustainability Rankings

Harvard Business Review

After all, no matter how green a company's operations and supply chains are, political efforts aimed at weakening environmental laws and regulations can have far greater environmental impact. A full list of our comparisons is reported in our recent Newsweek/Daily Beast article "What Green Rankings Don't Tell You." ). But perhaps not.

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The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

Strategy Driven

Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 Don’t base the business on ‘apples to oranges’ comparisons. Pro-bono community involvement is a factor because it indicates character, ethics and integrity. 17 percent).