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Employees Don’t Trust Anti-Retaliation Statutes

HR Digest

The magnitude of this significant problem is outlined in ECI’s Global Business Ethics Survey. It noted that 44 percent of employees suffered retaliation after reporting wrongdoing of some kind – up from 22 percent in 2013. Further, military service IGs did not meet most goals for handling cases within prescribed timeframes.

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The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business Review

Former employees have alleged a “soul-crushing” culture of fear and daily intimidation by managers, where they were pressured to reach extreme sales goals, some by breaking the law. The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely.

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Case Study: Is It Ever OK to Break a Promise?

Harvard Business Review

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. He’s part of my operations team now, and he hopes to transition to a management position. I think his real goal is to work more closely with you at headquarters? Date: May 12, 2013 21:37. Date: June 6, 2013 20:16.

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. The goal is to attract the British middle classes, and it appears to be working.

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Narrowing the Chasm Between PR Professionals and Wikipedia

Harvard Business Review

Public relations and communications professionals—and the academic programs that train them—find themselves operating in a radically new environment. But we hope this statement is a first step toward a productive conversation about how ethical corporate communicators can productively serve the editor community.

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Watching Wise Leaders Deal With Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Mackey told us in our interview that he believes that in recent decades, capitalism has lost its ethical mooring and that the explosion of corporate scandals is evidence of this drifting. Based on their experience, Mackey and Sisodia have coauthored a book, Conscious Capitalism , that was published in January 2013.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. “We had to train harder, measure our goals better, and become a better team,” Bunge said. As a start, staff members had to become stronger, in more ways than one.

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