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Periscope: Teeing off for a short ethics lesson
By: Ted Streuli for The Journal Record
I was playing with two boys from the neighborhood. I knew them from church and as we got older we’d all been in Cub Scouts and a few other groups. When we’d finished our nine holes, my friends proposed stepping over to the fifth tee and replaying the last five holes. I objected because I didn’t have another 50 cents to play another round, and they made clear that the whole point of teeing off on No. 5 was to play a little more without paying any more. Read more |
Main Street: How to build ethical behavior into organizations
By Dr. Edward Piatt, Ed.D. for Kankakee Daily Journal
Every day we are inundated with unseemly, unethical and even illegal behavior as reported in the media. How then do we implement ethical behavior in the organization, and, more importantly, into our everyday decision-making processes? Read more |
Five leadership lessons I learned the hard way
By Robin Cangie for Forbes
I’ll never forget the first time someone quit my team. This person — let’s call her Kelly* — was bright, talented, a high performer and, as I learned too late, extremely dissatisfied.
After she left, I struggled with a lot of self-doubt and was very hard on myself at first. Did this mean I was a bad manager? Had I inadvertently driven her away? Read more |
The Professor Is In: The ethics of backing out
By Karen Kelsky for The Chronicle of Higher Education
For example, it is generally considered unethical to renege on your acceptance of a tenure-track offer. In such cases, the stakes are high for a department. If its top candidate backs out late in the game, its second and third picks already may have taken jobs elsewhere. Unless the institution’s human-resources protocol allows the search committee to dip back into the candidate pool, your change of heart is likely to result in a failed search. And the department may even lose the line. Read more |
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