While advancement opportunities, corporate culture, salary, and signing bonuses are important factors when considering a job offer, a Penn State authority on ethics and leadership advises conducting an ethical culture audit before joining any firm, and suggests 15 questions to ask.
The collapse of Enron came first from insiders on message boards. In April 2001, four months before Enron collapsed, an anonymous e-mail warned of the impending doom of the financial giant. Recent research indicates that insiders may have warned of Enron's fall as much as four years before it actually occurred.
In a 1987 article, a University of Illinois law professor warned that coziness between auditors and managers and pressure to sell consulting services to corporations were distorting the "core standards" of large accounting firms.
Although many large corporations now have formal programs for managing ethical behavior and legal compliance, human resources departments often play only a minor role in companies' ethics management efforts, according to a new study.
Many organizations are devoting substantial resources to formal ethics programs in efforts to discourage unethical behavior, but a new study co-authored by a researcher in Penn State's Smeal College of Business shows that the success of those efforts will depend in part on whether employees perceive that their organization treats people in a generally fair way.
Harassment at school differs from harassment in the workplace, because in the latter there is a legal course of action to pursue to stop the harassment, according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham management professor.
The image a corporation projects to external audiences through its public affairs efforts deeply impacts its employees, according to a study authored by researchers in Penn State's Smeal College of Business. (Journal of Public Affairs)
Responsible business practices are successful business practices.
As lawyers across the country debate the merits and drawbacks of lawyers forming partnerships with non-lawyer professionals, a University of Arkansas law professor sits on the committee that will recommend a course for Arkansas.
"Pay-to-play," the practice whereby lawyers make political contributions to government officials who award legal contracts, has been stubbornly resistant to reform, according to a University of Illinois legal scholar.
Business is the most dominant social organizing force in the world today and, as such, it owes significant obligations to society, according to a Vanderbilt University professor.
Driven by growing participation in global markets, the contribution that common business conduct standards can make to improving Asian, African, and Latin American development prospects, and increased emphasis on corporate and individual conduct, companies in all regions are formulating, implementing and monitoring global business practice standards, according to a Conference Board study.
A new study shows that corporate ethics programs work as long as the company values moral conduct as much as the bottom line. "A firm's approach to ethics and legal compliance has an enormous impact on employees' attitudes and behaviors," says Linda Klebe Trevino, professor of management at Penn State.
An international group of health leaders released a "Shared Statement of Ethical Principles for Those Who Shape and Give Health Care" in today's issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
When it comes to ethical standards, convicts and MBA students rate about even, says a Ball State University researcher.
A new study suggests that MBA students have clear ideas of which tactics are ethically proper and improper in the course of business negotiations. But the students' views are shaped by their gender, nationality, age, work experience, and other factors.
A new study soon-to-be published in the Journal of Business Ethics finds that most major corporations that have formal "ethics" programs are only "going through the motions."
Programs to empower workers almost always fail because managers promise more than they can deliver. So says Joanne Ciulla, professor of leadership and ethics at the University of Richmond's Jepson School of Leadership Studies. She has written a paper entitled, "Leadership and the Problem of Bogus Empowerment," recently published as a working paper of the Kellogg Leadership Studies Project.
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