Tips for Keeping Employees Focused on Your Company’s Mission
By making your company’s mission to serve humanity, your employees become part of a fundamental goal and will, in return, experience a re-invigorated sense of purpose and motivation.
Ethics
Understanding Our Roots To Determine Our Future
2 Book Reviews: However, if you a want a quick tutorial on the documents underpinning our laws, our government, and our rights these books are both well worth reading.
What do Music, Business, and Academia Have in Common?
Welcome to the new issue of the GBR. We believe that you will find these articles informative as well as a challenge to take a deeper look at your business life, your work life, and as it applies, to your academic life. In this issue we have two articles on the importance of ethics in … Continued
Are Financial Markets Doomed? MF Global Bankruptcy Strikes at the Core of Markets
If our financial markets cannot guarantee safety of funds deposited with brokers or banks, our economic system will fall into a dark medieval state.
Ethics and Loyalty: There May be a Sea Change on the Horizon
In order for ethical programs to have an impact on customers, they must work and be seen to work.
Unethical Behavior: Psychological Traps That Everyone Falls Prey to
The study of ethics can continue its important task of telling us what we should be doing and psychology can help us stop our immoral behavior and motivate us to do the right thing. Moral decline will continue in America until ethics is integrated with psychology.
“Risky Business:” Hahn Gives Historical Context for the BP Oil Spill
Energy markets expert and Graziadio School professor Joe Hahn commented on BP’s Gulf oil spill and oil drilling in California on the KNBC-TV morning program
The Gulf Disaster, BP, and the Aftermath
As long as planes fly in defiance of gravity, they will come down. As long as cars travel faster than the human body can on its own, traffic accidents will kill us. And as long as we drill oil, there will be accidents.
The Costs and Benefits of CSR
Along with his co-authors, Dr. Harjoto’s research on CSR was awarded the prestigious 2009 Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing at SRI in the Rockies, the largest and longest-running sustainable and responsible investing conference in the world. Below is a summary of his paper offering the most salient points for managers. You can read the … Continued
The Art of Strategy During a Recession
Dr. Kurt Motamedi discusses strategy in time of crisis.
Values-Centered Leaders More Successful in the Long Term
Can’t see the above video? Click here to watch or you can read the transcript. In this video interview, Kevin S. Groves, PhD, Assistant Professor of Organizational Theory and Management at the Graziadio School of Business and Management, discusses his research on executive development and succession planning, managerial thinking styles, social and emotional intelligence, and … Continued
Putting the Heart Back into Business
This post first appeared in BizDean Talk and is reprinted with their permission. A prominent hedge-fund manager pleads guilty for running a scam with worldwide investor losses as high as $50 billion. A Texas billionaire is accused of conducting an $8 billion investment fraud. A major assisted living operator and its founder are accused of … Continued
Why Change Happens in Politics–NOT in Business
Barack Obama swept into the nation’s capitol, and with a few scribbles of his name, started the process of dismantling eight years of Bush policies. He faces a Congress that will largely embrace his changes, mostly because the Democrats have a comfortable majority in the House and only a 2-seat deficit to get to the … Continued
What You Need to Know About the Future
Linnea Bernard McCord, JD, MBA Peter Drucker, the famous management consultant, who is credited with creating the professional field of management, died a few years ago at age 95. He was the quintessential non-emotional thinker—a voracious reader who observed dispassionately what was going on around him without bias or preconception. He invented the word “knowledge worker” decades … Continued
The R-Word and the Future of the Economy
This is a guest post by Sean D. Jasso, PhD, practitioner faculty of economics. The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. ~ Peter F. Drucker The big question on the minds of most people is: What is the future of the economy? The answer is not always … Continued