Business ethics for corporate growth: A case study of Infosys in India “To achieve our objectives in an environment of fairness, honesty and courtesy toward our clients, employees, vendors and society at large” Mission Statement of Infosys. Starting in 1981 in Bangalore, India with seven colleagues who dared to dream and who were lucky to be among the first in the economic liberalization of India in 1990s, Infosys has crossed billion dollars in revenues in 2004.The company has maintained
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Introduction Infosys was founde in 1981 by a number of entrepreneurs. Mr. Narayana Murthy is the CEO and the chairman of the company. Infosys is a software development company that provides information technology (IT) consulting services to local and the international clients. Infosys could not do any kind of imports and exports as the Indian Government laws were very stringent prior to 1991. Hence the company had to develop software services as a solution to these stringent laws. But the company
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/rpz'ac/xbe Recognizing the need for grooming leaders in the Indian IT industry, Infosys Technologies Ltd. has emerged as the first Indian company to setup an institute exclusively for the purpose of developing leaders to sustain Infosys' legacy... Early200l saw the birth ofInfosys leadership Institute IL! with the visionto be a globally recognized institution thatnurtures leaders and advances the field ofleadership development. Over thepast decade the growth wimessed at Infosys coupled with globalization
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leadership has been a very fluid concept. Various scholars and researches (maybe influenced by the leaders of their respective times) define the term differently with each definition possessing unique features, qualities and its significance to the society as whole. For example, in 1930s, E.S. Bogardus defined it as “a process in which the activities of many are organized to move in a specific direction by one leader”. This definition signifies ‘Directional leadership’, which is to say one-leading-many. In
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of human resources for Infosys Group, left the conference room with a mixture of excitement and apprehension; a feeling that, they decided dryly, was familiar after a strategy meeting with the chairman and chief mentor of the Infosys Group, Narayana Murthy, and the CEO, Nandan Nilekani. tC The cofounders had set a new and aggressive milestone for the HR group, the latest in a long line of challenging goals that had been set for them. By 2007, the cofounders wanted HR to ensure that Infosys
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of human resources for Infosys Group, left the conference room with a mixture of excitement and apprehension; a feeling that, they decided dryly, was familiar after a strategy meeting with the chairman and chief mentor of the Infosys Group, Narayana Murthy, and the CEO, Nandan Nilekani. The cofounders had set a new and aggressive milestone for the HR group, the latest in a long line of challenging goals that had been set for them. By 2007, the cofounders wanted HR to ensure that Infosys was on
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Managerial Ethics: First Take-home Exam – Group Project June 16, 2013 Instructor: Fr. Ozzie Mascarenhas SJ Terms and Conditions: 1. Form groups of 5 or 6 batch-mates with wide disciplinary coverage. This is a take-home group exam carrying 15% marks. 2. Do either Project 1 OR Project 2, in less than 15 pages each. Or, formulate and frame your own Project with equivalent structure, challenge, content and questions as long as it reflects an ethical-moral-legal violation (e.g., Satyam
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Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader. -Indra Nooyi I strongly believe in Leadership by example. A leader, who stands first in line, rolls one’s sleeves up and gets to work. A leader who inspires others to dream, believe and achieve. One who is strategically driven and fuelled with undying optimism and energy. Needless to say, attributes like great technical or intellectual capacity are
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countries compared to US corporations. The leadership excludes the political leadership as such and ability to win votes even though the shared vision, hope (President Obama’s Hope) and mass communication is as much an application of EI as any corporate leaders. Some of the practical aspect of the EI is added in this article to make it more direct and meaningful to practical organisational life. The applications of Intentional Change Theory, shared visions are discussed as useful tool. At an individual
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1.2 COMPANY PROFILE Infosys Technology Limited (NASDAQ: INFY) was started in 1981 by seven people with US$ 250. Today, there are global leaders in the "next generation" of IT and consulting with revenues of US$ 6.35 billion (LTM Q1-FY12). Infosys defines designs and delivers technology-enabled business solutions for Global 2000 companies. Infosys also provides a complete range of services by leveraging domains and business expertise and strategic alliances with leading technology providers. The
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