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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Some of these activities included inherent conflicts of interest; others simply caused leaders to have to act counter to their values (loyalty, for example). Perhaps people are promoted according to unwritten rules that will ensure compliance with the status quo. How employees feel about the company. Do you talk to the boss?

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When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business Review

A paper by Daylian Cain, George Loewenstein, and Don Moore, published in the Journal of Legal Studies, demonstrates that when salespeople disclose conflicts of interest, destructive behavior can emerge down the line. So emphasize that your ultimate goal is learning, not compliance.

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Dating the boss, crossing an invisible line?

HR Digest

The problem is that office romance doesn’t sit well with human resources, especially when you’re hooking up with someone within your chain of command. There are also multiple possibilities of potential conflicts of interest that can be hard to resolve. Your affair could be fodder for office gossip.