Not only does fear destroy any sense of team spirit and pride, but it also shuts down important communication channels, inhibiting the flow of creative, constructive, and corrective ideas upstream. Just how might the front-line employee fall victim to fear at the workplace? In the 1992 classic movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin masterfully portrays [...]
For children, school is the best place to work. According to the International Labour Organisation, there are over 215 million children working across the world and of these 115 million are thought to be involved in hazardous work. The number of those between the ages of 5-14 and engaged in child labour is estimated by [...]
“Doing the right thing, even when no one is looking.” If ethics could be summarized in a single phrase, I think this might be it. It applies to the destructive practice in which some buying organizations engage, when they habitually pay invoices late, settling accounts far beyond the negotiated payment terms. In my career as [...]
It’s difficult to compete with slave labor. In spite of recent scrutiny over questionable labor engagement practices and working conditions, Chinese contractor Foxconn, who assemble Apple’s iPhone line – among other items – is again in the spotlight. The David Barboza and Charles Duhigg reported in yesterday’s New York Times that Foxconn has acknowledged using [...]
If you worked for five years or more without pay, and if you were brutally beaten if you tried to run away and were caught, would you call it “cost containment” or “unethical business practice”? I would call it “slavery”. The time for polite euphemism is over. The world’s largest producer of food, Nestlé, is [...]
If there was a single fatal flaw in the Occupy Wall Street movement, it was that it became mired in the tar pits of the Greater Social Anxiety. So many causes – worthwhile and frivolous - came to attach themselves to this little band of protesters that the central message became lost as the movement grew in [...]
Shares of Walmart Stores Inc. lost $10 billion of market value in one day on Monday, as the world’s largest retailer faces allegations of bribery and corruption in connection with its retail operations in Mexico. The New York Times reported this past Sunday that Wal-Mart de Mexico had engaged in a multi-year campaign of bribery to [...]
The issue of human trafficking and modern day slavery continues to be a blight on the human condition. And by its very nature, the supply chain can become – often unwittingly – its most effective conduit. Supply chain professionals cannot afford to turn a blind eye to this growing problem. We are, in a very [...]
There are roughly 100 days to go before the opening ceremonies for the Summer Olympic Games to be held in London England. Billions around the world anxiously await the start of this glorious display of athleticism and sportsmanship. Organizers of this summer’s Games promised that they would the most ethical ever. Paul Deighton, London 2012 Chief [...]
“Cloud computing” is a term that has bounded into our everyday language with flair. But like its name implies, its definition can be a difficult thing to pin down. The Cloud is different things to different people. Some consider it to be a simple metaphor for the internet. Others consider it to be the domain [...]
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