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Is an organisation corrupt or just ill?
When we hear about a corrupt organisation we often are surprised and outraged. What we fail to consider is that all organisations are never completely healthy. They are all ill to some extent. They will have practices that are dubious, … Continue reading
Posted in coruption, culture, leadership, management
Tagged Ethics, leadership, organisation, Senior management
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How work can compromise our ethics
Before we enter the work place, we are never warned that the work can deform us ethically. We hear about accidents, sexual harassment, or even fraud, but how many of us are warned about the way that work can deform … Continue reading
Posted in coruption, culture, leadership, learning organisation
Tagged Corporation, Crime, Ethics, Hannah Arendt, Lehman Brothers, Moral responsibility, Rotherham Council
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The myth of the transparent organisation.
We will hear that transparency is good for organisations and organisations will even tout their transparency. In many cases, the organisations believe what they are doing is transparent. They publish information on a regular basis that describes decisions, financial positions, … Continue reading
Posted in compliance, coruption, learning organisation, transparency
Tagged Accountability, Business, Enron, management, Organization, transparency, United States
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8 Steps to ensure your investigation does not appear to be a cover-up
This post has been removed as it has been superseded by the post How to write transparent investigation reports. I would like to thank Donna Boehme of the Compliance Strategists for comments on 8 Steps to ensure your investigation does … Continue reading
Posted in compliance, coruption, information management, learning organisation, local government, management
Tagged Complaint, Freedom of information, investigation report, Organization, People, Terms of reference
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Three reputation management reasons explain why Penn State and the NCAA settled so quickly
In the United States, the Jerry Sandusky scandal has gripped college sports unlike any scandal it has ever faced. The story centres on his criminal convictions for sexually assaulting young boys when he was a coach at Penn State and … Continue reading
Posted in change managment, coruption, culture, management
Tagged Jerry Sandusky, National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA, Penn State, Pennsylvania State University, PSU, reputation management, Taylor Branch, what price glory
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RBS vs. Lehman Brothers failures in leadership, culture, and regulators.
In January 2012, the Financial Services Authority published its report on the Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) failure. The report is surprisingly candid. It is also a rarity. The FSA does not usually publish its regulatory reports. However, the size … Continue reading
Posted in coruption, culture, leadership, management
Tagged ABN Amro, Financial Services Authority, Fred Goodwin, FSA, Hector Sants, Lehman Brothers, RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland
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Good Corporate Citizen or Good Person: check your ethics at the door?
With the recent financial crisis hitting the world, there have been a several attempts to understand what went wrong with the system. A financial and economic system that delivered staggeringly good results and provided economic benefits to billions of people … Continue reading
Posted in coruption, culture, management
Tagged Business, Consulting, corporate citizens, Corporate citizenship, Ethics, leadership, Lehman Brothers, management, Philosophy, politics, Research, unethical behaviour
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