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Pfizer’s Straight Talk on Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

In comparison, the word “employees” makes people sound more like a means to an end in order to achieve business results rather than unique individuals worthy of respect in and of themselves. People are more committed and loyal to an organization that is ethical. You May Also Enjoy. 3 Lessons from the Attack on Amazon.

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When Competition Between Coworkers Leads to Unethical Behavior

Harvard Business Review

At the same time, the need to win can blind us to ethical considerations. In our research, recently published in the journal Human Resource Management, we found that performance evaluation schemes based on peer comparison can encourage unethical behavior. We invited 160 participants of U.S.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

’ Metrics seem to emphasize what organizations find immediately measurable — even if those are low value — and tend to ignore high value measurements simply because they seem harder to measure (whether they are or not). It is a mindset that permeates organizations from top-down as well as bottom-up.

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The Big Picture of Business – What Business Must Learn: Putting.

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. How much further should we extend ethics? Dickens Jr.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Today's workforce will need three times the amount of training that it now gets if the organization intends to stay in business, remain competitive and tackle the future successfully. Niche trainers impart their own perspectives out of context to the whole of the organization. Training is rarely allowed to be extensive.

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The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

Strategy Driven

Any company or organization is like a tree. Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 Don’t base the business on ‘apples to oranges’ comparisons. by Hank Moore. Therefore, it does not fully grow and bloom.

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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business Review

Rather, it is characterized by a steady increase in the automation of traditionally human-based decision processes throughout organizations all over the country. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. This is not an argument for algorithmic absolutism or blind faith in the power of statistics.