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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). Rules and regulations often don’t cover the majority of ethical issues, especially those around people and resource trade-offs. You and Your Team Series.

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Ten Essential Tips for Hiring Your Next CEO

Harvard Business Review

Use an evaluation system that links the company’s strategic requirements with the prospects’ individual capacities and performance, with the latter focusing on their integrity and ethics, team building, execution excellence, shareholder return, and personal gravitas—and ability to work in the boardroom.

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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.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – The Ugly Truth About Partisan Public Project Labor Agreements

Strategy Driven

3 Obama claimed “it was the government’s policy to encourage the use of labor agreements to avoid misunderstandings about the cost of labor and to ensure that one contractor’s workforce problems during a project not delay other teams involved in the contract.” Statistically speaking, only 13.2 percent of the 2012 U.S.

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