Shlomo Ben-Hur teaches leadership, organizational behavior and corporate learning at the business school IMD.
Outside of the allegations in the case, what the posturing by Shell highlights is the alarming disconnect between corporate social responsibility practices and actual corporate behavior, including the choice of litigation strategy and legal positions.
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And government: Government incentives and disincentives can have a huge effect on consumer and corporate behavior.
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Audit Integrity has back-tested its proprietary metrics to 1996 to establish correlations between corporate behavior and negative events.
Regulatory pressures have failed to guarantee ethical behavior and social responsibility in corporate America, and efforts at self-management have fallen short time and again.
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It uses this term to describe its crowdsourced review model as lots of bits of light that collectively illuminate and transform corporate behavior.
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We changed the argument from one about the "rights" of so-called private clubs to one about the "wrongs" of a cadre of industry titans using the fig leaf of such memberships to exclude women, the standard this behavior sets in corporate America and damage it does to women at all levels.
And, by the way, trust in corporate behavior low in places like the USA and Germany.
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The idea is to use a team of volunteers to develop a crowdsourced website for responsible shopping, where user-generated information about corporate social and environmental behavior is reviewed by peers and organized into simple scores.
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As with the term resource, HR and corporate strategy also treat behavior in a neutral sense, denoting a measureable set of actions that can enable business outcomes, not something that is to be manipulated through fear or chicanery.
Eventually the corporate police stamped out errant behavior and insisted on generic projects to please everyone.
Illegal or reckless behavior threatens company profits, corporate jobs, and the very existence of corporations.
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Almost every corporate HR guide has information about harassment and unacceptable behavior.
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For nearly 120 years, the Sherman Antitrust Act has been the main vehicle through which the government and private parties have regulated the so-called anticompetitive behavior of corporate America.
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But today Redstone cites the need for proper corporate governance and claims Shari must "change her behavior" to win over the boards of Viacom and CBS. Several people say she has rankled Viacom's Dauman, CBS Chief Leslie Moonves and some directors by being, in their view, too assertive and meddlesome.
You see the same corporate behavior happen around the time companies issue annual bonuses, and I will tell you there are few things more insulting and aggravating, from a financial perspective, than being laid off right before bonuses are issued.
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What was lost in the transition between these two economic worldviews in the last 30 years was a recognition that business is embedded in society, a society ruled by laws that govern behavior and set long-term economic priorities and goals, often to the benefit of corporate America.
Researchers at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, led by Joris Lammers, looked at the behavior of more than 1, 500 professionals and found that women who are higher up the corporate ladder are more likely to cheat (just as higher-status men are).
The U.S. Government, and the U.S. Congress, can play a catalytic role in supporting corporate behavior modification.
Additionally, women leaders are more likely than their male peers to demonstrate types of leadership behavior that improve corporate organizational performance, including participative decision-making, role modeling, inspiration, expectations and rewards, and mentoring (p. 7).
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