Journal of Business Ethics (2008) 77:431–449 DOI 10.1007/s10551-007-9358-8 Ó Springer 2007 The Dark Side of Authority: Antecedents, Mechanisms, and Outcomes of Organizational Corruption Ruth V. Aguilera Abhijeet K. Vadera ABSTRACT. Corruption poisons corporations in America and around the world, and has devastating consequences for the entire social fabric. In this article, we focus on organizational corruption, described as the abuse of authority for personal benefit, and draw on Weber’s
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as how they view other people, their organizations, and the world around them. It then discusses how managers’ values, attitudes, moods, and level of emotional intelligence can impact the way they perform their job. The chapter closes with a discussion of organizational culture and explains how managers both create and influence it. LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Describe the various personality traits that affect how managers think, feel, and behave. (LO1) 2. Explain what values and attitudes are
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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 many are considering words such as sustainability and respect to human rights to their values and mission statements, still
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hospital’s trustees would take their time deciding on a new CEO and would make that decision using a process agreed to up front by the facility’s 24-member board of trustees, its medical staff and its parent system, St. John Health. • Developing a profile of the ideal CEO, based on a position description, a plan for the hospital’s near-term future and the priorities for the CEO’s first 12 to 18 months. • Identifying and evaluating candidates. “We seized the opportunity to learn from our mistakes
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Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction The advances in computer technologies have affected everybody’s daily life. Computers support and assist almost every single human activity. Traditional Decision Support Systems (DSS) has focused on computerized support for making decisions with respect to managerial problems (Turban 2005). Information is power. Providing significant and updated information is important to an administration because it is committed to promote transparency
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Task 1 An organization is an entity that exists to achieve a purpose through collective efforts of the people who work in for it. Organizations can be described as systems which are affected by their environment, have a structure that has both formal and informal elements. (Armstrong, 2012) An organization is formally defined as a collection of people working together in a division of labour to achieve a common purpose. This describes a variety of clubs, voluntary, organizations and religions
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Final Paper on Donald Sterling Ethics MGT511X 6/8/14 Caitlin Filteau Case Background Donald Sterling came into the ethical spotlight in April 2014, with a voice recording of him talking to his then mistress, “It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?” “You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that … and not to bring them to my games.”Don’t
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BUS 403 : Crafting and executing Strategy 2/6/2013 | | Part i | Organizational Analysis | Bus | Table of Contents | Executive Summary...........…………………………………………………………………….2 Business Overview…………...………………………………………………………………...2 Organizational Strategies…………...……………………………………………………...3 Organizational Design and Effectiveness……………………………….………………4 Organizational Structure……. ...…………………………………………………………...5 External Environment………………………………………………………………………6 Internal Environment…………………
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28-06-2013 Lecturer Profile Name: Mr. Try Sothearith -Western University: Dean of Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences - Ministry of Planning: Director of Department - Working and Teaching since 1994: Statistics, Research Methods SPSS - Consultancy: UNs, NGOs, Gvts, … - Contact Address: trysothearith@gmail.com Tel: 012 585 865 / 016555507 WU: Statistics for Management Chapter 1 Overview on Statistics by Try Sothearith trysothearith@gmail.com Tel: 012 585
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CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS CSR? eople create organizations to leverage their collective resources in pursuit of common goals. As organizations pursue these goals, they interact with others inside a larger context called society. Based on their purpose, organizations can be classified as for-profits, governments, or nonprofits. At a minimum, for-profits seek gain for their owners; governments exist to define the rules and structures of society within which all organizations must operate; and nonprofits (sometimes
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