Ethikos Weekly Editor’s Picks: How to Protect Yourself from an Unethical Boss

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How to Protect Yourself from an Unethical Boss

From Kellogg Insight from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University:
Do you ever feel pressured to compromise your ethics at work? Maybe your boss asks you to lie and say he is at a meeting when he really went golfing, or a supervisor asks you to turn a blind eye when some petty cash goes missing? Read more

People Love Games – but Does Gamification Work?

From Knowledge@Wharton:
Online games and game-like activities have been cropping up more frequently in business, education, fitness and other areas. Big companies such as Starbucks and Unilever have used games for training and customer loyalty programs. Read more

If We’re Not Laughing Something Is Wrong

From Liz Weber for The CEO Refresher:
As I finished a client’s strategy session report this morning, I kept thinking about how the CEO has changed over the past five years since we last worked together. He’s still brilliant, tenacious, out-spoken, aggressive, driven, blunt, and not politically correct — Can you see why I like him? Yet he’s changed. He’s no longer afraid to laugh. And that change has caused a huge shift in how he and his senior staff interact, plan, work, produce, profit, and succeed. Read more

Will Your Ethics Hold Up Under Pressure?

Ron Carucci contributing to Forbes:
No executive wants to wake up and find themselves on the cover of the Wall Street Journal, exposed in some widespread breach of ethics. The Volkswagen debacle is every leader’s worst nightmare. Waiting to see if your organization’s ethical fabric is as bullet proof as you hope isn’t a great strategy, argues Jonathan Haidt. Read more

Study: Small-Business Employees More Likely to Face Abuse

From Caitlin Huston of The Wall Street Journal:
According to a study published in the Journal of Ethics and Entrepreneurship by Dale Eesley and Patricia Meglich, workers at firms with 50 or fewer employees reported more abuse from their supervisors than those at larger businesses. The abuse included everything from forcing long hours on workers to yelling and behaving in a threatening way. Read more