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- 10 gaffes to avoid with respect to Chinese culture
- If you're doing business in China, meeting with people from China, or planning to work there, you'll want to avoid certain missteps. Calvin Sun explains a bit about Chinese culture and provides a heads-up on a few common mistakes and misconceptions. by Calvin Sun
- Tags: China, Person, Character, Gaffes, Republic, Western, Business Ethics, Food & Beverage, Telecom & Utilities, Leadership, Management, Manufacturing, Calvin Sun
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Chevron Aims to Accelerate Production and Reduce Downtime Through Implementation of New Business Intelligence Platform Providing Consistent, Available Data in Real Time
- The challenge facing the main players in the oil industry is to service this growth in demand by increasing productivity in both upstream and downstream activities, without losing sight of wider goals including safety, and overall corporate responsibility. Chevron is the second-largest integrated energy company in the United States and...
- Tags: Downtime, Chevron Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Business Ethics, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Leadership
- Case studies
- HMRC Meets Tough Targets for Recycling, Thanks to HP Planet Partners
- Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs HMRC needed to increase its recycling if it was to meet ambitious corporate responsibility targets. Within the first 18 months of joining the HP Planet Partners programme, it had recycled 13.1 tonnes of HP toner cartridges from 200 of its 900 sites. The fact that...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Partnership, Recycling, Printers, Business Ethics, Hardware, Peripherals, Leadership, Management
- Case studies
- Ethics & Code of Conduct Training: Your Critical Role in Compliance
- In the post Sarbanes-Oxley workplace, the ever-evolving world of corporate compliance and risk management has been largely considered an issue for Risk Management and Accounting. The critical need for ethics and "Code of Conduct" training for the entire workplace, however, is changing that viewpoint, placing Training, HR, and Employee Relations...
- Tags: Compliance, Training, Code Of Conduct, Ethics, Business Ethics, Policies And Procedures, Workforce Management, Leadership, Management, Human Resources
- Webcasts
- A Case Study of Social and Corporate Responsibility in Bridging the Digital Divide
- Being on the wrong side of the digital divide limits the life chances of the socially excluded, who have had neither the wherewithal nor the opportunity to obtain highly paid, skilled positions in IT. Irish policy makers see education as the solution to this problem. However, providing institutional support for...
- Tags: Education, Corporate Responsibility, Information Technology, Digital Divide, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management
- Case studies
- Best Practices for Application Service Management in Law Firms: Compuware Vantage Solution
- Lawyers are known for their hard-working business ethics and their long hours put in at the office - and now, thanks to technology, outside the office. Because so much of a lawyer's work involves technology today, it is imperative that the technology be available and working correctly when a lawyer...
- Tags: Service Management, Lawyer, Compuware Corp., Best Practice, Upside Research, Litigation, Business Ethics, Business Operations, Leadership, Management
- White papers 2006-08-04
- Sonja Thompson, Ethics Officer
- I'm finally making my way through recent editions of TechRepublic's IT News Digest newsletter, which I intentionally flagged in my inbox so that I could go back and blog about some of the more interesting news stories that have bubbled up to the surface.One of these stories is about HP...
- Tags: Ethics, Ethics Officer, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Environmental Sustainability and Microsoft Dynamics
- Financial results are no longer the only defining measure of a company's strength. Increasing importance is being placed on each company's approach to Corporate Social Responsibility ("CSR") and Environmental Sustainability in particular. What is the "Convenient truth"? It is seen as the untapped potential of the information that currently resides...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Sustainability, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Corporate Law, Leadership, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-11-03
- Respect Your Elders: Don't Fall Victim to Intergenerational Conflict
- Ever get into a conflict with another rep over seemingly trivial issues? Ever cause a customer to become upset without quite understanding why? If so, there may be intergenerational issues at work in the customer service center. Different generations come equipped with different interpersonal attitudes, value systems, and work ethics,...
- Tags: Generation, Business Ethics, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Leadership, Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Know your workplace obligations
- By Paul GlenWouldn't it be nice if every boss came with a standard API?It would be so easy to look at the interface specifications and know exactlywhat he expected, in what format he expected it, when you should deliver it,what predictable events would result from your input and how you...
- Tags: Business ethics, subordinate, Workplace
- Technical articles 2006-11-27
- Free mug to the greatest Geek Trivia fan!
- Attention Geek Trivia fans: Start using digg, reddit, and del.icio.us to pimp my columns! One of my professional goals for the year 2006 is to get the buzz-factor up on Geek Trivia. While I could do a lot of work and hit up some potential...
- Tags: Del.icio.us, Business Ethics, Business Structures, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Leadership, Management, Finance, Hardware, Components, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-03-07
- The Tone at the Top and Ethical Conduct Connection
- The study discussed in this paper suggests that corporations whose top managers value ethics are less likely to pressure employees to materially alter financial results. Tone at the top plays a critical role in the control environment. And corporations whose top managers value ethics are also somewhat more likely to...
- Tags: Ethics, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Tips and Trends for Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection
- There are now 13 industry sectors classified as critical infrastructure. Identifying the assets, which collectively constitute a critical infrastructure sector, is not always easy to define. Regardless of the sector, however, securing any critical infrastructure from the constant and varied threat of terror requires flexibility, cooperation, and an understanding of...
- Tags: Infrastructure Protection, Sector, Homeland Security, Business Ethics, Government, Leadership, Management
- White papers 2004-12-23
- The Ethics of Severance Payments
- Executives often describe their position as "high-risk, high-reward" Leonhardt. These golden parachutes have drastically changed the executive position by making it much less risky. Even if a CEO fails to perform his or her job successfully, he or she will still receive the severance payment that was agreed upon in...
- Tags: Payment, Ethics, University Of North Carolina, Business Ethics, Operational Accounting, Leadership, Management, Finance
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Implications of Cultural Variety for IT Codes of Ethics
- IT organisations are growing along with the international businesses they service. Driven by globalisation, the world is becoming a single workplace and marketplace. Like all professionals, IT professionals who work within these organisations regularly face problems of an ethical and moral nature. In making decisions, what...
- Tags: Professional, Culture, Information Technology, Ethics, Business Ethics, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Leadership, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2001-03-11
- At tech firms, time again for flextime?
- It can work if...It can work if you don't have micromanaging weasels above you who operate under the myth that if they don't see you, you are goofing off.At the college I work at, I negotiated a telework arrangement. Since I live 55 miles away from campus, the time and...
- Tags: business ethics, comptech3, flex-time
- Discussion threads 2004-11-15
- Dilemma: When personal ethics don't align with those of the organization
- Being asked to ignore certain copyright infringements was too much for this TechRepublic member. Read his story and give us your thoughts on what to do when business ethics contradict personal ethics.By R. Jason SmithSome months ago, I joined the ranks of a remanufacturing company as project manager. I considered...
- Tags: Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Jason Smith, business ethics, site license, job, ethics
- Technical articles 2002-10-08
- Most organizations follow a business ethics code
- Recently, corporate fraud has become a big issue for the United States. Part of this issue deals with ethics and how businesses handle them. In a recent Polling Place Quick Poll, we asked members if their organizations have some kind of code of ethics.
- Tags: Policies and procedures, Leadership, TechRepublic Staff, business ethics
- Technical articles 2002-08-02
Additional Resources
- Research Bibliography: Ethics as a Leadership Issue
- Research bibliography compiled by the Ethics Resource Center in 1998-1999.
- Tags: Business ethics, Reed Elsevier Inc., ethics, leadership
- White papers 1999-01-01
- "everybody is ignorant, but just about different things"
- The fact that we don't know how to do other people's jobs as well as they do illustrates libertarian, or classic liberal, ethics, fairly well. We also do not know how to live other people's personal lives as well as they do, and have no right to attempt to...
- Tags: Business ethics, Absolutely, ethics
- Discussion threads 2007-04-30
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