Reducing Healthcare Disparities Through Strategic Social Marketing
Participatory Action Research (PAR) provides an alternative approach to marketing that can address issues in segments of the population that receive lesser quality healthcare.
Ethics
Six Characteristics of Virtuous Organizations
The notion of a virtuous organization is the result of an evolving, but grounded, field of study in leadership and management that is a mash-up of ethics theory.
Sustaining an Organization in the Midst of Chaos
Using the 2008 recession, we will look at how leaders have handled economic, environmental, and organizational responsibility and sustainability during chaos.
Managing the Dark Side of Competitive Rivalry
However, competition can become so intense that it can be counterproductive and lead to alarming behavior.
Forging Ethics-Based Business Partners
The ability to be trustworthy and credible is critical for business practitioners and educators to strengthen the competitiveness of businesses and improve its image.
Integrating a Spiritual Life into the Work Life
This article addresses the growing disconnect between an individual’s personal spiritual beliefs and professional code of conduct with particular application to the academy.
Editor’s Note
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.
A Generic Problem: Should FDA Approval of Drugs Stop Consumers’ Suits for Injuries?
The Supreme Court has ruled federal law blocks consumers from suing for injuries from generic drugs, yet brand name drugs do not have the same protection.
LESSONS LEARNED: Creating Values That Work
Defining values and associated behaviors provide both a focus and the glue that binds leadership behavior and managerial culture.
Leading from Character Strength
Leaders need to examine their effectiveness at managing virtuous behavior to add value to organizations. Virtuousness is not only important from a humanistic point of view in workplace settings, but helps drive important organizational outcomes.
Justice in Ethics Programs
Ethics programs have arisen in response to outcry over the perceived unethical behavior of American business. The rapid response is encouraging, though issues have emerged.
A No Fault Approach to Recouping Executive Compensation
Having improved financial performance justifies compensation, but what happens to the compensation after a restatement?
Making Decisions with Multiple Attributes: A Case in Sustainability Planning
Decisions involving issues of sustainability tend to include an array of objective attributes along with highly subjective value judgments. Managers must find a way to factor qualitative attributes such as environmental, social, and ethical impact into the decision-making process.
The Ethics of Ethics Programs
Ethics programs are most effective when they flow out of a culture that values practicing business legally and ethically. However, there are a number of ethical issues which are themselves raised by ethics programs that demand more visibility and thought if these programs are to be ultimately effective.
UPDATE: Creating and Sustaining an Ethical Workplace Culture
The formula I offered for creating and sustaining an ethical workplace culture in 2003 is still valid today. Indeed, virtuous values, actions and behavioral standards/codes can be the basis for an approach to help drive ethical organizational behavior.