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1. |  Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - The Gap Between Personal and Organizational Values By: Jerry Brightman Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-MAR-1999 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - The Gap Between Personal and Organizational Values
The more proactive the leader in creating, sustaining, and communicating the vision, the more effectively he or she can close value gaps.
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2. |  By: Stuart L. Hart; C.K. Prahalad Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 26-APR-2013 Insert Date: 04-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | A brand new collection of cutting-edge
guides to sustainable capitalism
Translate sustainability and “base
of the pyramid” strategies into real profits
It’s time for capitalism’s next
reinvention. In the new Third Edition of his best-selling
Capitalism at the Crossroads, Third Edition, Stuart
L. Hart reveals tomorrow’s capitalism. He presents new case
studies and practical strategies for building companies that are
more sustainable, build deeper roots in their markets, play a
central role in solving social and environmental problems –
and are far more profitable. Hart helps you...
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3. |  By: William Sternbergh; Peter J. Neary Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-AUG-2001 Insert Date: 13-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
An important measure of a leader is the sense of values used in the decision making process.
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4. |  By: Gabriella Wennubst Publisher: Editions d'Organisation Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mobbing
PrésentationDu mal-être au harcèlement, que faire face au mobbing ?Entre 3,5 et 7,5% des salariés (tous pays confondus) sont victimes de mobbing au cours de leur vie professionnelle. Mais qu'est-ce que le mobbing ? L'auteur le définit comme une répétition d'actes hostiles par un ou des auteurs tendant à isoler, marginaliser, éloigner ou exclure la victime d'un cercle de relations données, voire à la neutraliser par une communication non éthique et un report de responsabilité sur la victime.Abordant autant les aspects pratiques que légaux, cet ouvrage apporte les réponses à toutes les...
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5. |  Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, Second Edition By: A. C. Fernando Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 24-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 08-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, Second Edition
Business Ethics and Corporate Governance offers readers a comprehensive coverage of the theories of business ethics and corporate governance. This book emphasizes the importance of ethical principles in overcoming ethical dilemmas in the highly dynamic business world of today. It also provides a detailed explanation of the corporate governance mechanism, its constituents and its implementation in India and abroad. Numerous real-life examples and case studies presented in this book help in the comprehension of concepts, and class discussions around these cases provide a better understanding...
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6. |  Leadership in Action: Thinking Straight: New Strategies Are Needed for Ethical Leadership By: Richard T. Marcy; William A. Gentry; Rob McKinnon Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 03-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Thinking Straight: New Strategies Are Needed for Ethical Leadership
After all the high-profile examples of ethical transgressions by top leaders in recent years, why do some leaders continue to make ethical mistakes? New research suggests that there is a pronounced disconnect between what leaders say they would do when faced with an ethical dilemma and what they might actually do. It also suggests that only when leaders begin to use specific strategies aimed directly at addressing certain biases and situational pressures will they be able to avoid ethical problems.
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7. |  By: Steve Winterfeld; Jason Andress Publisher: Syngress Publication Date: 28-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Basics of Cyber Warfare
As part of the Syngress Basics series, The Basics of Cyber Warfare provides readers with fundamental knowledge of cyber warfare in both theoretical and practical aspects. This book explores the battlefields, participants and the tools and techniques used during today's digital conflicts. The Basics of Cyber Warfare teaches readers the principles of cyber warfare, including military doctrine, cyber doctrine, and both offensive and defensive tactics and procedures. Readers learn the basics of how to defend against:
• Espionage
• Hactivism
• Insider threats
• State-sponsored...
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8. |  Ethical Impact of Technological Advancements and Applications in Society By: Rocci Luppicini Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Ethical Impact of Technological Advancements and Applications in Society In the modern era each new innovation poses its own special ethical dilemma. How can human society adapt to these new forms of expression, commerce, government, citizenship, and learning while holding onto its ethical and moral principles? Ethical Impact of Technological Advancements and Applications in Society explores the ethical challenges of these innovations, providing cutting-edge analysis of designs, developments, impacts, policies, theories, and methodologies related to ethical aspects of technology in society. It advances scholarship on both in established areas such as computer...
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9. |  Business Ethics: An Indian Perspective By: A.C. Fernando Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 29-SEP-2009 Insert Date: 21-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Business Ethics: An Indian Perspective
Business Ethics: An Indian Perspective introduces ethical concepts that are relevant to resolving moral issues in business. It sensitizes readers on ethical principles and develops reasoning and analytical skills needed to apply ethical concepts to business decisions. The book is interspersed with a lot of case studies, more specifically Indian scenarios making it relevant for Indian students. Chapter topics cover ethical theories underlying business, application of ethics in day-to-day business, ethics and the environment and ethics in consumer protection. It also features ethical issues...
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10. |  Corporate Governance Ethics and CSR By: Justine Simpson; John Taylor Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 11-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Corporate Governance Ethics and CSR Corporate Governance, Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility brings together the three separate strands relevant to the new demands of organizational behaviour and reporting. Taking a holistic approach to the issue of the role of the organization in society, the responsibilities within which it operates, obligations to its stakeholders (including its employees and their dependents) and the ethical underpinning which has to be in place for any form of honest reporting, the authors look not only at the organization as a reporting entity complying with a set of rules or nebulous...
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11. |  By: Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch Publisher: Business Expert Press Publication Date: 04-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 09-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Academic Ethos Management This topical and much needed book constitutes an important part of the debate on the integrity in an academic context as a sine qua non of responsible management education. Like you, we’ve all been listening to the highly publicized corporate scandals and instances of management misconduct that have eroded public faith. Simultaneously, management scholars and educators have begun to question the assumptions underlying the traditional management education, which in their view not only contributed to a recent moral crisis but has also failed to prepare students and executives for coping with...
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12. |  By: Cam Caldwell Publisher: Business Expert Press Publication Date: 21-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 09-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Moral Leadership
The challenge facing leaders in the 21st century is to restore stakeholder trust, build employee commitment, and create organizations that are able to sustain long-term competitive advantage. Great leadership combines both character and competence, but corporate values must include excellence and quality as well as integrity and honesty. Creating organizational systems that reinforce and support core values and that achieve outstanding performance must be founded upon principles that work on the street, in the office, and on the shop floor. Ethical leadership that honors a commitment to...
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13. |  Business Integrity in Practice By: Agata Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch; Wolfgang Wolfgang Amann Publisher: Business Expert Press Publication Date: 18-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 27-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Business Integrity in Practice The quest for integrity in business is not only a reaction against malfeasance in business and associated calls for reform but also a search that stems from changes and new demands in the global business environment. Among the sources of these new demands are the expectations of stakeholders that corporations and their leaders will take more active roles as citizens within society and in the fight against some of the most pressing problems in the world, such as poverty, environmental degradation, defending human rights, corruption, and pandemic diseases. This book presents and critically...
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14. |  Managing for Ethical–Organizational Integrity By: Abe Zakhem; Daniel Daniel Palmer Publisher: Business Expert Press Publication Date: 08-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 24-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Managing for Ethical–Organizational Integrity
It was once believed that business and ethics constituted separate and
mutually exclusive realms. Businesses that perpetuate such a belief or still
hold that â??business ethicsâ? is an oxymoron are at risk.
If you are a manager, you may have been called on to actively promote
ethical-organizational integrity. But this means understanding the defining
principles of and creating an organizational culture that measurably
encourages ethical conduct. This book will help provide you and other
managers with much needed guidelines for ethical decision making in
business that are philosophically...
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15. |  A Strategic and Tactical Approach to Global Business Ethics By: Lawrence A. Beer Publisher: Business Expert Press Publication Date: 18-APR-2010 Insert Date: 24-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Strategic and Tactical Approach to Global Business Ethics Ethics is a compendium of moral interpretations steeped in a multitude of religious and philosophical applications. It is subject to various cultural intrusions as well as independent personal interpretation. The study of international business and all related managerial disciplines usually includes ethical content. The majority of global management textbooks offer a chapter on ethics, and its often misaligned cousin, social responsibility. They tend to cover the subject matter by stating the problem and then reciting laws enacted to combat social injustice as well as including...
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16. |  Corporate Ethics, Governance, and Social Responsibility: Precepts and Practices By: A.C. Fernando (ed) Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 02-JUN-2009 Insert Date: 25-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Corporate Ethics, Governance, and Social Responsibility: Precepts and Practices
The Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai, organized a two-day conference, where it brought together a group of illustrious and experienced practitioners of each component of the ethical trilogy of business ethics, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. This volume collates the speeches of Indian and international speakers like M. Damodaran, the ex-chairman of SEBI, J.J. Irani, Director, Tata Sons and N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu. What emerges from their insight is a holistic perspective and a true appreciation of three interrelated concepts that...
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17. |  By: Kord Davis; Doug Patterson Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 20-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 20-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Ethics of Big Data This book contains a framework for productive discussion and thinking about ethics and Big Data in business environments.With the increasing size and scope of information that Big Data technologies can provide business, maintaining an ethical practice benefits from a common framework of understanding and vocabulary for discussing questions about coherent and consistent practices.A framework provides you with a set of conceptual terms and tools that help decision-markers to engage difficult questions the expanding role Big Data plays in an increasing variety of products and services. The...
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18. |  Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism By: Muhammad Yunus Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 16-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 21-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe. But traditional capitalism has been unable to solve problems like inequality and poverty. In Muhammad Yunus’ groundbreaking sequel to Banker to the Poor, he outlines the concept of social business—business where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today’s most serious problems: feeding the poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet. Creating a World Without Poverty reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already underway.
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19. |  Building Success with Business Ethics: Advice from Business Leaders (Collection) By: Helio Fred Garcia, Jon Huntsman, Ken Blanchard, Colleen Barrett, Doug Lennick, Fred Kiel Ph.D. Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 25-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 28-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Building Success with Business Ethics: Advice from Business Leaders (Collection) A brand new collection of powerful
insights into ethical and effective business leadership… 4
pioneering books, now in a convenient e-format, at a great
price!
4 remarkable eBooks help you lead more
successfully by leading more ethically
Honor, ethics, and compassion are central to
effective leadership. Now, an extraordinary new eBook collection
reveals why this is true, and how you can lead more honorably and
successfully in your own organization. In Winners Never Cheat:
Even in Difficult Times, New and Expanded Edition, Jon M.
Huntsman shows how to succeed at the top, without...
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20. |  Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era By: Christina Akrivopoulou; Nicolaos Garipidis Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-APR-2012 Insert Date: 23-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era Globalization, along with its digital and information communication technology counterparts, including the Internet and cyberspace, may signify a whole new era for human rights, characterized by new tensions, challenges, and risks for human rights, as well as new opportunities.<br><b>Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies</b> explores the emergence and evolution of ‘digital’ rights that challenge and transform more traditional legal, political, and historical understandings of human rights. Academic and legal scholars will explore...
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