scholarly journals Can We Commit Future Managers to Honesty?

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Jacquemet ◽  
Stéphane Luchini ◽  
Julie Rosaz ◽  
Jason F. Shogren
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Business School ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Ethical Standard ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Strategic Game ◽  
Ethics Management ◽  
Joint Product ◽  
Effective Form ◽  
Executives And Managers

In a competitive business environment, dishonesty can pay. Self-interested executives and managers can have incentive to shade the truth for personal gain. In response, the business community has considered how to commit these executives and managers to a higher ethical standard. The MBA Oath and the Dutch Bankers Oath are examples of such a commitment device. The question we test herein is whether the oath can be used as an effective form of ethics management for future executives/managers—who for our experiment we recruited from a leading French business school—by actually improving their honesty. Using a classic Sender-Receiver strategic game experiment, we reinforce professional identity by pre-selecting the group to which Receivers belong. This allows us to determine whether taking the oath deters lying among future managers. Our results suggest “yes and no.” We observe that these future executives/managers who took a solemn honesty oath as a Sender were (a) significantly more likely to tell the truth when the lie was detrimental to the Receiver, but (b) were not more likely to tell the truth when the lie was mutually beneficial to both the Sender and Receiver. A joint product of our design is our ability to measure in-group bias in lying behavior in our population of subjects (comparing behavior of subjects in the same and different business schools). The experiment provides clear evidence of a lack of such bias.

Business ethics, CSR, sustainability and the MBA

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 641-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman S Wright ◽  
Hadyn Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Business School ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Delivery Modes ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Corporate Social

AbstractThe issues of business ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability have come to attract increasing attention in management education in recent years, at least from the perspective of potential employers, accrediting bodies and business school alumni. This paper examines the extent of penetration of these three subjects in to global MBA curricula through an examination of course content and structure pertaining to the Financial Times Global MBA Rankings top 100, the Australian Financial Review BOSS top 17 ranked Australian MBAs, and the seven MBA programmes currently offered by universities in New Zealand. The findings reveal that: a variety of delivery modes are utilised; while the teaching of ethics has achieved considerable penetration, only about fifty percent of MBA programmes include it as a required subject (and even then it may only constitute part of a larger subject); and that the teaching of sustainability has achieved much lower penetration, with only six percent of MBA programmes examined incorporating the topic into their core curriculum. Implications for the design of MBA programmes and future research directions are then discussed within the context of a business environment in which increasing prominence is being given to these subject areasx.

Politics and class: The Turkish Business Environment in the Neoliberal age

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 27-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayşe Buğra ◽  
Osman Savaşkan
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Business Associations ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Current Context ◽  
The Right

AbstractThis article investigates the contemporary Turkish business environment as shaped by the economic, political and cultural transformations of the past 30 years. The changes in the forms and mechanisms of government intervention in the economy, the spatial relocation of industry, the rise of “Anatolian capital,” and the cleavages within the business community generated by the increasing salience of Islam in society and politics are some of the interrelated themes that will be pursued in the article. To understand the current context and the configurations of interest in the business community it is necessary to have a closer look at the manifestations of politics in business life. Political factors are important at the level of government-business relations where the political authority continues to mobilize a series of legislative and administrative mechanisms for the privileged treatment of those businesspeople with the right political and sectarian affiliations. Politics also enters the business environment through the role played by different business associations. These associations not only represent the interests of different segments of the business community, but they also shape the ways in which economic interests are defined, presented in policy terms and pursued through different strategies. In this context, the article also draws attention to the political cleavages that are manifested at the local level where they are managed and kept under control with different degrees of success.

scholarly journals CENÁRIO ATUAL E FUTURO DA IDENTIFICAÇÃO POR RADIOFREQUÊNCIA DOI:10.7444/fsrj.v1i2.36

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-42
Author(s):  
Félix Larrañaga
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Implementation Costs ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Favourable Evolution

Radio Frequency Identification Technology (RFID) that arose from World War II developments has become one of the most attractive management tools to the business environment yet has faced scarce current applicability. This study analyses the opinion of specialists engaged in the industry, trade and logistics management of diverse economic segments with views to presenting an amplified perspective of this technologies current and future behaviour, as well as its inclusion within the corporate environment. The subject matter of choice derives from the author’s personal curiosity, as leveraged by numerous publications that failed to reveal coincidental opinions and operational approaches concerning the use of this technology. This seems to have found ground given the lack of technical knowledge within both the business community and the public in general and, undoubtedly, considering its high implementation costs.  The research, of bibliographical nature, concludes that effectively there are favourable and unfavourable opinions concerning this technology’s application at the surveyed industries and organizations, although most acknowledge its high potential business management efficiency and effectiveness. It is understood that only a favourable evolution of economic activities will promote the necessary investments and drive players into furthering in-depth studies concerning the varied RFID possibilities in addition to analysing the strategic convenience of its application. Key-words:  RFID. Logistics. Strategic Management. Supply Chains.

scholarly journals Use Of A Real World Business Panel To Assist In MBA Program Outcomes Assessment And Curriculum Refinement

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph G. Glynn ◽  
Richard A. Shick
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Real World ◽  
Business School ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Program Outcomes ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Mba Program ◽  
The World ◽  
School Curricula

The world of business operates in an extremely dynamic environment. Domestic issues (competition, cultural diversity, regulation/deregulation) global issues (competition, economic, cultural/social, and political), and rapidly changing technologies all require business school curricula that are designed to be flexible and proactive as well as reactive. An ever increasingly important responsibility of schools of business is the assessment of outcomes of their programs. Outcomes may be measured on several dimensions. One such measurement is the assessment of the skills/abilities of its graduates. This work will describe the efforts of a business school to engage the local business community in that undertaking.

scholarly journals MEDIATION IN THE ECUCATION

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmina Rajkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Framework ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Community ◽  
New Model ◽  
The Relationship

The report examines the application of mediation in education, as well as the relationship between education and the business environment. The aim of the present study is to present mediation as a method that builds a new model of behavior in the various social spheres. Based on the analysis, conclusions are made about the importance for the implementation of the mediation procedure in school and university, as well as the relationship with the business community. In order to achieve the set aim, the author examines the legal framework of mediation, the application of mediation in school, the possibility of upgrading knowledge in university and application in business.

scholarly journals Current Trends And Future Considerations Of Higher Education In Business

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Carruth ◽  
Ann K. Carruth
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Business Programs ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
Business Courses ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
Graduate Business Education

Graduate programs in business, while still highly regarded, are under increased scrutiny by both business academics and the corporate world.  There is growing evidence that graduate business programs are not responsive to the needs of the business community.  The complexity and global nature of business today requires that schools must provide their graduates with not only traditional managerial skills, but also skills relating to the interpersonal and conceptual.  These essential skills include the ability to team build, to effectively communicate ideas, and to embrace cultural diversity.  To remain relevant and viable, business schools must assess not only their teaching, but also the content of their research.  Their focus should be on establishing criteria of excellence that benefits not the business school or faculty, but rather those that hire their graduates.  The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the basic assumptions of graduate business education today, and provide recommendations for enhancing its relevance in today’s complex business environment.  Perspectives that influence these trends are analyzed and include the changing mission of graduate programs in business as well as the debate over specialization versus integration of graduate business courses.

scholarly journals Challenges for the Entrepreneurial Environment and the European Union During the Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Irina Geanina Harja ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Community ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Natural Resource Base

In the last decade, it has come to the recognition and awareness that European states and the business environment have been constantly guided by the objectives set out in the strategies by the European Union. Due to the crises, that arose, the whole of contemporary society was in a constant struggle to maintain a balance between the economic, social and environmental. Thus, the trinomial of the interdependence between economic growth, resource use and environmental protection, now known as "sustainable development", creates a multitude of activities that succeed in promoting realistic strategies on how to manage the natural resource base. Currently, due to the new crisis in the European economy, a trinomial has formed between entrepreneurship - pandemic - sustainable development. The EU continues to play its role in protecting citizens and the business community by mobilizing financial resources to minimize the negative impact of the pandemic. The purpose of this article is to highlight the fact that awareness of the emergence of a new impending crisis is forcing EU states to consider the sustainable development of the entrepreneurial environment as the driving force of the late twentieth century.

Designing OMIS-Based Collaboration for Learning Organizations

2005 ◽  
pp. 827-830
Author(s):  
Kam Hou Vat
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Organizational Knowledge ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Organizational Memory ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Culture ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Organizational Resource

Today, the view that knowledge is a valuable organizational resource has become widely recognized and accepted in the business community. This is largely due to the emergence of the knowledge-based economy (OECD, 1996), characterized by a highly competitive and turbulent business environment. One consequence is the increase in organizations’ efforts to deliberately manage knowledge. Organizations are realizing that their competitive edge is mostly the intellectual capital (brainpower) (Stewart, 1997) of their employees, and they are particularly interested in harnessing their human resources in order to stay ahead of the pack, through their soaring attention on specific aspects of knowledge management (De Hoog, van Heijst, van der Spek et al., 1999), which deals with the conceptualization, review, consolidation, and action phrases of creating, securing, combining, coordinating, and retrieving knowledge. Undeniably, with Web-based and intranet technologies (Dunn & Varano, 1999), the connectivity and possible sharing of organizational knowledge (bits and pieces of individual know-how scattered throughout the organization) are greatly enabled to cultivate the knowledge culture of the organization. In a knowledge-creating organization (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995), employees are expected to continually improvise and invent new methods to deal with unexpected difficulties, and to solve immediate problems and share these innovations with other employees through some effective communication channels or knowledge-transfer mechanisms. In fact, complete organizational knowledge is created only when individuals keep modifying their knowledge through interactions with other organizational members. The challenge that organizations now face is how to devise suitable information system (IS) support (Vat, 2000, 2002a, 2002b) to turn the scattered, diverse knowledge of their people into well-documented knowledge assets ready for deposit and reuse to benefit the whole organization. This article presents some learning organization perspectives of employee-based collaboration through the design of a specific IS support called the organizational memory information system—hence, the term OMIS.

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