Workplace Ethics

Dr. Rob Douk has made it his life mission to make a difference - and to help others do the same. As a therapist turned socialpreneur, Douk has paved the way for companies with a strong social purpose to grow their business as they improve the world. The Fearless Socialpreneur outlines a series of five foundations and five principles that generate success for "socialpreneurs", those who launch innovative enterprises that achieve financial returns and social benefits. It is Douk's belief that good people working together can overcome any challenge to make a profound difference.

Are American businesses generally less ethical than their counterparts around the world? Does a particular unethical mentality exist in the American business-culture? This book presents a number of cases of unethical conduct at American companies, along with a part on such conduct in companies in other regions of the world. Rather than following with the traditional orientation to ethical decision-making, the emphasis here is on the underlying mentality out of which the decisions come. The mentality itself, often times mendacious, is presented here as inherently unethical in itself. A variety of industries are represented so to demonstrate such a lower common denominator.

LEARN TO HANDLE EMPLOYEE CORRECTIVE ACTIONS LEAGALLY AND ETHICALLY A quick guide to legally and ethically mastering progressive discipline and structured termination, from the leading voice in HR expertise. Paul Falcone, author of 101 Sample Write Ups for Documenting Employee Performance...

Failures are a common phenomena in civilization. Things fail and society responds, often very slowly, sometimes inappropriately. What kinds of things go wrong? Why do they go wrong? How do people and organizations react to failures, and what are the best ways to react? William B. Rouse takes an analytic approach to these questions and addresses 18 well-known cases of high-consequence failures. He employs a multi-level framework to integrate findings across the case studies, and, in turn, uses these to outline a conceptual approach to integrated failure management.

Give a Damn!: The Ticket to Cultural Change is for individuals and organizations that need to develop a stronger awareness and understanding of their toxic thoughts, which lead to behaviors and actions that are selfish, irresponsible, and destructive. This occurs globally across all organizations, government, and in the home. This audiobook creates an acute awareness of what has lead us down this path and provides the solution for a simple but also challenging mindset change that is necessary for society to prosper.

To bridge this gap between the "talk" and the "walk", Freeman and Auster provide a process through which organizations can collectively surface deeply held values that truly resonate with everyone, from top to bottom. Their Values Through Conversation (VTC) process focuses on four key types of values conversations: introspective, historical, connectedness, and aspirational.

Brian Cruver first entered the Enron's office complex, in March 2001. He was an eager MBA ready to cash in as a new hire with one of America's most highly valued companies. But, from his first day - when his new boss warned him, "there was a mix-up in the hiring process," but that it was "no big deal...just think of it like you're adopted" - to his last, when he and his colleagues were given thirty minutes to leave the building, Cruver found himself enmeshed in a business cult that each day grew only more bizarre.

Through the eyes of an inventor of new markets, Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation tells the story of how financial innovation - a concept that is misunderstood and under attack - has been a positive force in the last four decades. If properly designed and regulated, these “good derivatives” can open vast possibilities to address a variety of global problems. Filled with provocative ideas and valuable lessons, this book will provide both an insightful interpretation of the last 40 years in capital and environmental markets.

This book is written for The Floor by someone from the floor, but who has also run a small business. It is my hope that those who truly seek to be better managers and supervisors can find the value in the experience of those who work the job day after day after long, long day.

Al mismo tiempo que la compañía ocupó la posición número 1 del mundo en materia de sostenibilidad durante once años. Paul Polman revela por primera vez cómo hacerlo. En colaboración con Andrew Winston, una de las voces más inspiracionales del mundo en temas de sostenibilidad empresarial, Paul Polman, muestra a los líderes empresariales cómo enfrentarse a los mayores y más urgentes desafíos de la humanidad —el cambio climático y la desigualdad— y construir, de este modo, un negocio próspero.

Marcus Aurelius's timeless insights into human behaviour show that 2000 years on, not much has changed in the workplace and we could all do well if we focus on what we can control and worry less about things we can't. As head of the Roman empire, he encountered his fair share of difficult people, frustrating situations and political infighting. In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius encouraged us to accept other people's inevitable shortcomings, make the most of our short life, resist the temptations of fame and flattery and, when things get too much, take a cosmic perspective of our existence.

Tenacity chronicles the evolution of entrepreneur Ron Coury, a major business figure in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the surrounding Western states. As Coury, a former US Marine, climbed the ladder toward his success, he faced a barrage of constraints, including political and police corruption, bribery, coercion, and even death threats. Coury details the struggles he faced and the losses he endured in this eye-opening look behind the curtain of business during the “good ol’ boy” days of Southern Nevada.

Gazprom, Google und der Fluch der Abhängigkeit: Warum Monopole so gefährlich sind. Gazprom, Google, Blackrock, USA, China und Russland: Konzerne und Staaten mit übergroßer Marktmacht greifen tief in unser Leben ein. Der Monopolismus mit seiner Herrschaft über Rohstoffe und Kapital, Energie, Nahrungsmittel und Daten droht den Wettbewerb abzuschaffen. Die Folgen sind weniger Innovation, höhere Preise, aber vor allem wirtschaftliche und politische Abhängigkeiten.

This book provides a short introduction to the philosophy of humanism and discusses how and why it is being applied to business and why it is so effective when you do so. Humanism helps us prioritize human value as important. It supports positive interpersonal relationships and collaborative and respectful decision-making. Since all businesses are in the business of solving problems, good problem-solving is essential to good business.

In Future Ready: Your Organization’s Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability, a team of business leaders with deep expertise in engineering, planning, finance, project, program implementation and advisory consulting perspective delivers an essential guide for executives, managers, and other business and infrastructure organization leaders to set and implement a resilience, sustainability and ESG strategy in complex project and operating environments.

A partir de ejemplos que van desde Silicon Valley hasta el sector financiero pasando por las grandes farmacéuticas, Mariana Mazzucatomuestra de manera magistral cómo las nociones borrosas que tenemos del valor han permitido a ciertos actores de la economía retratarse a sí mismos como generadores de valor, mientras que en realidad se limitan a mover el existente o, lo que es peor, a destruirlo.

The Ultimate Guide to Sustainable Scale: Scale to Summit introduces another set of requirements and considerations across all eight elements of every holistic business to hit the accelerator competently and confidently to ScaleUp your business.

In today’s polycrisis world—where pandemics, political instability, online outrage, and fractured supply chains collide—business as usual is a recipe for failure. Responsible Management in Crisis breaks through the noise with gripping, real-world case studies of a dozen leaders who faced extraordinary pressure and made one defining choice: to lead with principle or retreat into safety.

A portion of the proceeds from Front Row Seat will be donated to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Disease research and the Positive Coaching Alliance to help coaches lead and develop America’s future leaders. America's youth sports industry has changed dramatically over the past two decades. The days of playing for your town or local YMCA team, be it baseball, soccer, basketball or lacrosse were coming to an end.

In today's cut-throat, get-ahead-at-all-costs world, the idea of showing basic decency toward one another has sadly been pushed to the side. Yet, the power of respectful, positive leadership can be more impactful now than ever before. Gracious leaders stand apart because they have a better way. Leaders who listen with purpose, recognize they don't have all the answers, and demonstrate uncompromising respect to all can - and will - lead their teams to peak performance.