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Motivation: To Do or Not to Do

Leading Blog

In comparison, other people are motivated by moving “toward” things that they want to achieve, accomplish, or attain. As with all knowledge that enables you to be highly persuasive, you have a responsibility to apply this information ethically and with utmost integrity.

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Use the Right Scorecard

Lead Change Blog

Social comparison—how we compare ourselves to others in terms of traits, skills, abilities, appearance, opinions, net worth, career, material goods, connections, and achievements. Michael Josephson, law professor and founder, Joseph and Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics. Christina Hibbert, clinical psychologist, and author.

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Race Against Bias: Are we aware of our own unconscious bias?

HR Digest

For companies seeking to implement a workplace-wide awareness training, however, it is important to find out the kinds of unconscious bias and their influence on a person or group’s behavior. To be influenced by the way in which information is presented rather than the information itself. Confirmation Bias. False Causality Bias.

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5 Signs Your Organization Might Be Headed for an Ethics Scandal

Harvard Business Review

Corporations often approach ethics as an individual problem, designing oversight systems to identify the “bad apples” before they can turn the organization into a “rotten barrel.” And our explanations for ethical scandals are incomplete without a focus on group dynamics. Vince Streano/Getty Images.

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Your Company Can Benefit If a Top Politician Is Your Friend

Harvard Business Review

For comparison, past researchers have estimated the returns to being connected to powerful officials at 5% in Italy and Turkey and 8% in China. Sarkozy, who served until 2012, was recently put under official investigation in France and charged with corruption and influence peddling.

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The Big Flaw in Corporate Sustainability Rankings

Harvard Business Review

To find out, we turned to political and business ethics research from the Center for Political Accountability (CPA) and the University of Pennsylvania's Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research. A full list of our comparisons is reported in our recent Newsweek/Daily Beast article "What Green Rankings Don't Tell You." ).

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Why Your Customer Loyalty Program Isn’t Working

Harvard Business Review

Shoppers are rewarded for their loyalty to Walmart by having Walmart do comparison shopping for them. Or a two-thirds as profitable customer whose comments and critiques on Twitter and Yelp influence hundreds of prospects? Loyalty here is as much about ethics as it is business. A profitable repeat customer?