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3 Popular Goal-Setting Techniques Managers Should Avoid

Harvard Business Review

In 2002, professors Edwin A. But many organizations don’t follow Locke and Latham’s advice. Creating an Ethical Workplace. Locke and Gary P. Latham, two of the best known academic researchers on goal-setting, wrote an article in American Psychologist summarizing their 35 years of research. You and Your Team Series.

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The SCOTUS Case That Could Give Voice to More Whistleblowers

Harvard Business Review

Supreme Court will take up a complex business case that might expand the universe of employees protected under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). Ethics Government' In mid-November, the U.S. In Lawson v. FMR LLC , the Court will have to discern what Congress meant when it allowed a whistleblowing employee to sue for retaliation.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Getting bad advice from the wrong people, mainly other tech professionals. Executives never stayed long.