Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Finally, after tough negotiations with Republican leaders, the President announced a comprehensive tax package that not only addressed income, capital gains and estate tax rates, but also the AMT, unemployment insurance and many expiring individual and business tax credits and incentives. What’s in the Tax Bill?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Legal compliance and precautions plan is annually updated, with measurable goals. Assets are adequately valued and managed. Each product-service is budgeted.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Some employees even claimed that they were fired for calling the internal ethics hotline. These claims raise important questions that every major company needs to ask: Are employees aware of our ethical standards and the laws surrounding our business? Or, like Wells Fargo, is management tone-deaf when employees try to blow the whistle?

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Management Ethics Banking Tips 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

One of the many things managers worry about is employees breaking the rules. Companies have tried many different ways to limit unethical behavior, from creating codes of conduct to implementing ethical training. These results point to a relatively simple way to support rule compliance at work.

Ethics 8

Ethics Participative Process Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

For enterprise risk management, key policies include a statement of risk appetite and explicit risk tolerance levels for critical risks. The company's performance measurement and incentive systems, and the degree to which risk management is considered, will also have a profound impact on employee behavior. Set clear policies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Traditional mass manufacturing is based on principles of “Scientific Management” that date back to the 19th century. Managers hold virtually all decision-making authority. Here’s a simplified description of the difference between the two approaches. Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations.

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Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Late last month, on the second anniversary of the story nearly to the day, Walmart released its first Global Compliance Report (GCR). Also at issue are what and when management told the board and what processes the board had for oversight. The Global Compliance Report does respond, in general, to issues raised in the original story.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Convincing employees to go above and beyond the call of duty may be the epitome of personnel management. To find out, we designed a pair of studies that would measure the ethical repercussions of externally motivated organizational citizenship. How talent management is changing. In other words, compliance leads to deviance.

Licensing 8

Licensing Morale Motivation Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Here’s how he defined it: Culture relates to the implicit norms that guide behavior in the absence of regulations or compliance rules—and sometimes despite those explicit restraints. And what happened to the compensation of the typical JP Morgan managing director? Each managing director was financially interdependent with every other.

Banking 8

Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Some of the worst corporate disasters of the past two decades were heralded by whistleblowers: Sherron Watkins raised the red flag internally at Enron, Cynthia Cooper let management know of major accounting problems at WorldCom, and Matthew Lee brought problems to his management team at Lehman Brothers. But that’s not the case.

Company 10

Company Report Compliance Officer System 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Whether the questions raised are about police officers’ use of force, politicians’ use of email, or managers’ use of compensation, the answer is the same: more transparency. Though that may sound like perverse logic, or perhaps a reaction to a poorly thought-out incentive system, research has found they’re not alone.

How To 8

How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2015

In research by Frances Milliken of New York University and two colleagues, the majority of 40 employees at knowledge companies reported having concerns about such issues as workflow improvement and ethics — but not speaking up about these issues to their supervisors. But to her surprise, the management team agreed to all of her terms.

Influence 8

Influence Participative Compliance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

Whether it''s a smoking cessation program or working with a coach to improve management skills, people claim they want to change or drop dysfunctional behaviors from their lives, but then fight like Ninja warriors to defend them. An ethical coach doesn''t bring pom-poms to meetings with clients, so hire to your needs.

Executive Coaching 8

Executive Coaching Execution Commitment Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Roughly 18% of companies currently use personality tests in the hiring process, according to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management. Since the cost of a bad hire is widely estimated to be at least one year’s pay, there are huge incentives for organizations to get hiring right. Know the law.

Pre-Employment Screening 8

Pre-Employment Screening Human Resources How To CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Roughly 18% of companies currently use personality tests in the hiring process, according to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management. Since the cost of a bad hire is widely estimated to be at least one year''s pay, there are huge incentives for organizations to get hiring right. Know the law.

Pre-Employment Screening 8

Pre-Employment Screening Human Resources How To CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income. CEOs and boards: Esquel's governance and incentive structure allow it to persistently embrace and pursue the values described above.

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