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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

Effective leaders set the right tone at the top, which becomes the organization’s ethical standards. Employees trust and want to work for an organization with high ethical standards, and work for a leader who lives by those standards. Allow your direct reports to share a contrary point of view. Meet your commitments.

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Why do managers behave un-ethically?

Chartered Management Institute

The ethical behaviour of our managers has been in the spotlight in the past few weeks as the drama at Barclays has unfolded. That the behaviour of managers at the bank was not at all ethical seems hard to dispute, but if we want managers to start behaving better an understanding of why they break the rules is critical.

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Don’t Be a Leader of Stupid Rules

Lead Change Blog

Undaunted by bureaucratic ignorance, Bismarck finally found an elder soldier who reported what his father, also a palace guard, had told him. Organize a “service garbage patrol” to spot and report places service is a needless hassle for customers. Clearly there are circumstances where rules are crucial to safety, ethics and fairness.

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Using AI For The Good Of Society

The Horizons Tracker

The latest to add its thoughts to the mix is a new report from Qatar University, which highlights how unregulated AI is a significant threat to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Throughout the last few years, various austere bodies have highlighted the need for AI to develop in ways that benefits all of society.

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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. Whether it’s a fresher role or one that requires experience, Qualee reports that it takes a new hire approximately eight months to reach their full productivity.

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New Paper Explores How We Should Use Digital Technology Responsibly

The Horizons Tracker

As technology has advanced more and more discussion has revolved around ensuring it develops in an ethical way and to the benefit of all of society. The negative unintended consequences of technology use are now routinely reported in the media,” the researchers conclude.

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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? Volkswagen. and the U.K., Cross-cultural differences.

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