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Executives Most Likely To Cheat During Good Times

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, the researchers even suggest that the economic conditions we encounter when entering a role can provide an ethical baseline that endures. The authors also believe their findings could have implications in the way people recruit if they’re looking to hire people who might behave ethically (or not). Driving misconduct.

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Can Resume Padding Help Society?

The Horizons Tracker

The act of inflating one’s career achievements is usually viewed in negative terms. Some aspects can be verified, like education level and previous employment, while others, such as leadership qualities and work ethic, remain unverifiable, incurring high costs for verification.

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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. Here are five questions to ask: Do your company’s incentives match its policies? Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. But it is the employee incentives that really matter. billion in inflated profits.

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The Elements of Transformational Leadership

Skip Prichard

Looking at our first point, leaders do not necessarily have to be charismatic to inspire others, they can have deep values, be highly ethical, champion a cause and such-like descriptions. Within this aspect we can introduce elements of continuous professional development, coaching, mentoring and career opportunities.

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Leadership & Political Correctness | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. They are admirable qualities so long as they don’t take precedence over, ignore, or contradict truth. How sad is this?

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Finance Can Be a Noble Profession (Yes, Really)

Harvard Business Review

As graduates explain their career choices to family and friends, they will confront the idea that our best and brightest are wasting their talent in an industry that doesn’t do anything worthwhile. But this anti-finance sentiment is detached from the reality of the profession and obscures the promise and peril of a career in finance.