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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

As such it is concerned with how to gain people’s commitment to the achievement of an organization’s business goals and objectives in a number of different situations.” HRM principles indicate that defining the company’s ethics and values can make maintaining a harmonious workplace that much easier.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Wells Fargo. Volkswagen. and the U.K.,

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business Review

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. The tightly-controlled automotive company fostered a mentality where the lower ranks faced immense pressure to achieve the company’s business objectives.

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Wells Fargo and the Slippery Slope of Sales Incentives

Harvard Business Review

In the early 1990s Sears sought to restore its reputation with $46 million in coupons because some employees of its automotive repair division (who were paid a commission on sales of parts and services) had allegedly enticed customers into authorizing and paying for needless repairs. Will eliminating sales goals do it?

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Before You Open a Business…

Leading Blog

Considering the overall costs and benefits of owning a business, is starting a business the best way to accomplish your goals? His achievements in building profitable and ethical companies have been featured in a variety of national media including USA Today, Automotive News, Entrepreneur Magazine , and Globe.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Sanyin Siang – Executive Director of the Duke University Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE). Keith Ferrazzi – Addresses behaviors that block the achievement of strategic goals. Author: The Launch Book.