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Category Archives: Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Resources for Discussing Racism in the Workplace
Current events have put renewed emphasis on the subject of racism in contemporary society, and the workplace is one of the most important aspects of this vital conversation. To provide ideas for class discussion, we have pulled together a variety of articles that you may find useful. Harvard Business Review assembled a reading list of […]
The 50 Most Miserable Cities in America
"Not the worst, just the most miserable. "We've identified the 50 most miserable cities in the US, using census data from 1,000 cities, taking into consideration population change (because if people are leaving it's usually for a good reason), the percentage of people working, median household incomes, the percentage of people without healthcare, median commute […]
Teaching Introduction to Business: The Crisis in Business Ethics and Public Confidence
Business in Action, 7th Edition, offers instructors and students a much-needed alternative to texts that either overload students with distracting features and excessive detail or underserve them by making compromises on essential coverage. Business in Action is up to 20 percent shorter than other comprehensive texts, setting the standard in high-productivity learning.
Thriving in the Digital Enterprise: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
As one of the most powerful technologies ever developed, artificial intelligence (AI) is already influencing human life in multiple ways and promises to do so even more in the future. Although many of these developments are positive, AI shares the two-sided nature of every major technology: The power that enables it to be a positive […]
Teaching Introduction to Business: The Crisis in Business Ethics and Public Confidence
Business in Action, 7th Edition, offers instructors and students a much-needed alternative to texts that either overload students with distracting features and excessive detail or underserve them by making compromises on essential coverage. Business in Action is up to 20 percent shorter than other comprehensive texts, setting the standard in high-productivity learning.
How Can You Tell a Great Leader When You See One? Look for This 1 Uncommon Sign
"To reach that state of loyalty where people trust you at your every word requires the daily act of exposing your values, beliefs, convictions, and morals to others in close quarters. When your actions are observed, and you know you can trust your own actions out in the open, your reputation is upheld. People never […]
Pictures Taken Undercover in Apple’s Chinese iPhone Factories Show Filth and Overcrowding
An exhausted worker resting on the floor. "The video shows work rules that ban tattoos, died hair, short people, and certain ethnic groups from the factories."It also shows exhausted workers sleeping on the floor, using buckets to wash in, squalid communal showers rigged in parking garages, and a disgusting, unclean urinal. "The film also shows […]
How Companies Learn Your Secrets
NYTimes.com takes a look at "how companies learn your secrets." Via www.nytimes.com
Global Corruption Index
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