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BUSINESS SCHOOLS ETHICS
Master the Most Basic Business Basics: The key to survive tough
times
-- Dan Coughlin
Companies around the world, irrespective of their size or industry in which they
operate, have seven basic business basics. The key to business success is to keep mastering
these basics, irrespective of the changes in the business environment.
© 2010 Dan Coughlin. All Rights Reserved.
BUSINESS SCHOOLS ETHICS
Teaching Business Ethics in the Age of Madoff : Issues We Must Face
-- R Edward Freeman,Lisa Stewart,Brian Moriarty
The financial crisis has created a window of opportunity for both business and
business schools to re-imagine how they might engrain ethics into the DNA of their activities so
as to make business, and the world that business affects, better. The real journey
begins when we actively engage, as live issues, the presuppositions about markets,
economic models, and human nature that are foundational to prevailing beliefs about business.
And for those who teach business ethics, it begins when we stop fighting for legitimacy
and start affecting business in the positive ways.
© 2010 This Article is Reprinted with Permission.
BUSINESS SCHOOLS ETHICS
Can Ethics Be Taught?: The Big Debate Continues
-- Stephanie Jones
We can teach ethics as we try to teach any other subject, but there is always the
concern that, despite a high level of interest from students, the issues remain of academic
rather than practical interest. The main problem of teaching ethics - at any level and to
any audience - is that we can take a horse to the water - but can we make it drink the water?
© 2010 Dr. Stephanie Jones. All Rights Reserved.
BUSINESS SCHOOLS ETHICS
Ethical Leadership : Principles for Developing
Moral Leaders
-- David Jack Cherrington
Ethical leadership requires people with high moral character; you cannot be a
great transformational leader unless you are a moral person. Ethical leaders influence
the behavior of their followers and contribute to the economic success of their organizations.
Unethical leaders destroy the trust and confidence that are needed for employees to
have feelings of commitment and dedication. Four steps are involved in the development
of ethical leadership: ethical awareness, ethical discernment, ethical motivation, and
ethical internalization.
© 2010 David Jack Cherrington. All Rights Reserved.
BUSINESS SCHOOLS ETHICS
Reducing crime and corruption : Mission impossible?
-- Ronald J Burke
Today, one cannot pick up a newspaper without reading one or more stories about
crime and corruption; often three or more such stories appear on the same page and
these stories cover all sectors of the economy and private, public and
nonprofit organizations.While organizational morality seems to be an
oxymoron today, the ethical shortfalls and greed of the past decade has encouraged
discussion of ethical issues and an increasing number of individuals, organizations, and governments have become
committed to behaving in more ethical, transparent and accountable ways.
© 2010 Ronald J. Burke. All Rights Reserved.
BUSINESS SCHOOLS ETHICS
Why is Management Learning Important? : From Individual to Organizational Learning
-- Chris Rowley, Irene Hon-fun Poon
Organizational Learning (OL) has been increasingly recognized as a critical factor for
an organization's ability to create ongoing economic value and maintain
competitive advantage. The OL process consists of the way people learn and work together
to overcome changes, gain better knowledge and improve their performances. It
involves experimentation, observation, analysis, willingness to examine both successes
and failures, and knowledge sharing among individuals.
© 2010 Dr. Chris Rowley and Irene Hon-fun Poon. All Rights Reserved.
BUSINESS SCHOOLS ETHICS
BOP and The Ethical Perspective : Principles for Developing
Moral Leaders
-- Jay Rajasekera
One way to get around the ethical debate of BOP is to let the companies involved in
BOP markets, whether in the developed countries or developing countries, be open and
do what is best for them. If MNCs want to help the poor in BOP markets, they should
help the companies from emerging countries by forming alliances and creating the
so-called ecosystems.
© 2010 Jay Rajasekera. All Rights Reserved.
PERSPECTIVE
The Moral of the Moment : Can Ethics Be Taught?
-- Rob Jolles
One of my favorite assignments in my
25 years of teaching various corporations was being involved in not
one, but two programs while with Xerox. It taught me a great deal about many things,
but perhaps the greatest lesson it taught me was the answer to the question, "Can
ethics be taught?"
© 2010 Rob Jolles. All Rights Reserved.
PERSPECTIVE
Customer Ethics : Looking Beyond the Obvious
-- Jochen Wirtz
Although much has been said and made
about the unacceptable level of service rendered by frontline employees, all
too often, we also find customers competing with such staff to be rude and
uncooperative. Some `ugly' customers are reluctant
to adhere to rules and norms, which dictate that they behave in a certain manner
when a service is rendered.
© 2010 Jochen Wirtz. All Rights Reserved.
PERSPECTIVE
Teenage Workplace : Five Organizational Trends Leaders will See in the 2010s
-- David Burkus
As the new century reaches its teenage
years, organizational leaders are left wondering: what more will change? Will
the adolescent years of the next century be as unpredictable as the adolescent years of
a teenage son or daughter? Organizational leaders and strategists alike are
looking toward the future to find the trends that will shape the workplace in 2010. Here
are five trends they've found so far.
© 2010 David Burkus. All Rights Reserved.
LEADERSHIP
Business Schools : Can They Restore Ethical Leadership
-- GRK Murty
A king can easily cross the oceans of the world with kingly duties as his boat, urged on
by the breeze of gifts, with the scriptures as the tackle, intelligence as its helmsman and
kept afloat by the power of righteousness.
INTERVIEW
-- Paul JH Schoemaker
The MBA culture inculcates a rational, reductionist mindset that serves business well
in times of stability but not when discontinuity is upon us and entrepreneurship is called
for.
The interview was conducted by
-- Vandana Jaykumar
Team Leader,
IBS CDC, www.ibscdc.org
INTERVIEW
-- James O'Toole
The faculties at prestigious b-schools (and their wannabes) are increasingly composed
of discipline-oriented professors, researchers
The interview was conducted by
-- Dr. Nagendra V
Chowdary,
Consulting Editor, Effective Executive
Dean, IBS CDC, www.ibscdc.org
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