investigates: a direct path (income ! total pay satisfaction); an indirect path (income ! the love of money ! pay equity comparison ! total pay satisfaction) using a structural equation model (SEM) based on 210 full-time employees; and the model across race and gender in multi-group analyses. Findings – The paper finds that for the whole sample, there was one significant path (pay equity comparison ! total pay satisfaction). Since African-Americans ($32,073.15) and women ($32,400.58) tended to
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executives in large multinational corporations (MNCs) today globalization is a daily reality. Yet most of those executives have not been specifically educated, trained, or groomed to deal with the complexities that are inherent in the globalization of business markets.) * In this destabilized and international context, multinational corporations and their executives face several significant challenges and the new skills to successfully meet these challenges. One of the first issues that an MNC faces
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Starbucks International Business Student’s name Name of the Institute Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 3 SWOT Analysis of Starbucks 4 Starbucks Introduction to International Business 7 Market entry strategies adopted by Starbucks 7 Porter’s 5 forces 8 Challenges and Barriers in International Business 11 Conclusion 13 References 15 Executive Summary Starbucks is one most successful example of transnational companies across the globe with its rich cultural and organizational strength
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Journal of Management http://jom.sagepub.com/ What We Know and Don't Know About Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review and Research Agenda Herman Aguinis and Ante Glavas Journal of Management 2012 38: 932 originally published online 1 March 2012 DOI: 10.1177/0149206311436079 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jom.sagepub.com/content/38/4/932 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Southern Management Association Additional services and information
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organizational levels. Institutions in which the organizational culture is highly evolved have invested in developing strong internal value systems to resolve ethical dilemmas and value conflicts, and ensure high performance, quality, social responsibility and employee professional satisfaction. Such investments contribute to both individual and organizational development and growth. There is a need to develop a viable organizational culture in institutions of the National Agricultural Research System
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therefore be viewed as a corporation's agreement with the world. CSR is most commonly used alongside the “ethics” term but they actually differ as ethics are the guidelines to be used for business decision making. Ethics, according to Preston (1996), is concerned with what is right, fair, just or good, about what we ought to do, not just what can be done or what is most acceptable or expedient. Ethics allows for set standards and rules to be used to guide behaviours which form just one level of the considerations
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(discuss Barry’s important life decision) The Nancy Barry chapter in “The Leadership Moment” is the story of a Harvard-educated woman who quickly gained success as a high-powered lending executive at the World Bank, and then went on to transform the business world as President of Women’s World Banking (WWB) (Useem, 1998). As readers, we are exposed to Nancy’s important life decision early on in the chapter when the WWB approaches her to lead their organization (Useem, 1998). At that time, Nancy was a
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in order to make them more crea-tive which are: New Product Development and Ethics From New Product Development (NDP) to Sustain-able New Product development (SNPD) The present review aims at being a summary of the main academic articles about project in-novation and the ethical considerations behind them. In 2007 Melissa S Baucus expressed her concern for the fact that creativity researchers rarely discuss ethics. Although the num-ber of companies with ethical considerations is increasing and
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Journal of Business Research 60 (2007) 277 – 284 Hofstede's dimensions of culture in international marketing studies Ana Maria Soares a,⁎, Minoo Farhangmehr a,1 , Aviv Shoham b,2 a School of Economics and Management, University of Minho, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal b Graduate School of Management, University of Haifa, Haifa, 31905, Israel Received 1 March 2006; received in revised form 1 August 2006; accepted 1 October 2006 Abstract Growth of research addressing the relationship between
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Small business social responsibility: Expanding core CSR theory Laura J. Spence Abstract This paper seeks to expand business and society research in a number of ways. Its primary purpose is to redraw two core CSR theories (stakeholder theory and Carroll’s CSR pyramid), enhancing their relevance for small business. This is done by the application of the ethic of care, informed by the value of feminist perspectives and the extant empirical research on small business social responsibility. It is
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