Ethikos Editor’s Weekly Picks: Go Ahead, Tell Them Who You Think They Are

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Ethikos Editors Picks Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Editor: Kortney Nordrum


Examining ethics and compliance issues in business since 1987


Go Ahead, Tell Them Who You Think They Are

Kristy Grant Hart on ComplianceKristy.com:
Have you ever noticed that most people act exactly the way you thought they would?  The Rule of Expectations is the principle that when someone know how another expects him or her to behave, he or she will consciously and unconsciously try to satisfy the expectation.  How you think and talk about the managers and employees in your business will affect the way that they behave. Read more

How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions

Joseph L. Badaracco for Harvard Business Review:
Every manager makes tough calls—it comes with the job. And the toughest calls come in the gray areas—situations where you and your team have worked hard to gather the facts and done the best analysis you can, but you still don’t know what to do. Read more

Do Corporate Values Matter

Andrew Rudin for Customer Think:
Visit the website of a great company, and you’re certain to find a values speil.
UnderArmour dedicates an entire web page to explain its Mission and Values. Whole Foods describes its Core Values, offering a subtitle, What’s truly important to us as an organization, to drive home the point. IBM outlines Our Values in a nearly-tweetable 153 characters. Read more

Zero Tolerance Policies: Do They Work or are They a Sham?

Mark Faris on LinkedIn:
As someone deeply concerned about abysmally low worker engagement levels and the lack of purposeful leadership in our workplaces, I cannot help myself in tackling the many zero tolerance policies floating around today. Do zero tolerance policies provide organizational upside or downsides? Read more

A Gold Medal in Integrity

Adam Turteltaub for The Compliance & Ethics Blog:
The run up to the Olympics has not exactly been a positive one.  There were stories about delayed construction and Brazilian corruption.  And, if that weren’t enough, there were countless reports of state-sponsored doping by Russian athletes. Read more