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What to Do If Your Boss Asks You to Break the Rules

Harvard Business Review

Do we go along to get along or do we resist? But these tactics fall flat when faced with disputes of an ethical, moral, or legal nature. How might an ethical but job-dependent employee respond to these disputes effectively? How we address such disputes can have serious consequences for our organization and ourselves.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

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To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. It is essential to build in a framework of virtuous and ethical principles.

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When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business Review

That in turn hurt morale and left employees feeling mistrustful. Too much transparency can spark resistance. Organizations advocating complete transparency with the explicit aim of punishing bad behavior and rewarding good behavior may come across as communicating moral standards that are impossible to meet.

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