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Organizational Altruism Affects Whether Job Candidates Haggle On Salary

The Horizons Tracker

Altruistic organizations undoubtedly perform their good deeds for their own sake, but research from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin suggests it might also influence whether job candidates negotiate on their salary or not.

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Why Organizations Forget What They Learn from Failures

Harvard Business Review

But court rulings related to the second explosion found that cost cutting had proceeded, despite the safety risks. The problem is that these safety-related behaviors fade over time and other motivating forces come to the fore, gradually launching the seeds of the next error. Employees leave the company. New executives take the helm.