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The Death of Shame
Unlimited greed and obscene compensations for top executives are not just limited to corporations; academia is not far behind. Can you trust your leader?
Crisis in Confidence in Corporate America
Corporate governance has become a hot topic for discussion. More than half of Americans have low or very low confidence in the honesty and integrity of CEOs and CFOs.
Employee Involvement to Improve Safety in the Workplace: An Ethical Imperative
Companies in general have not lived up to their ethical responsibility in assisting workers to decrease work-related accidents and illnesses. A four-stage employee involvement model is presented to improved workplace safety and morale.
An Investigation of Poison Pill Securities, Long-Term Debt, and the Wealth of Shareholders
Poison pill securities can be used to deter takeover activity by making the acquisition cost prohibitive or to increase the bargaining power of target firms. Empirical evidence indicates that the capital structure of firms plays an important role in the perceived strength of poison pills.
The Meaning Behind the Message: Climate Perceptions and the Psychological Contract
Using a hierarchical regression model and responses from 370 employees from a variety of organizational settings, this article examines the influence of employees’ perception of their work environment on their contract with their organizations.
The Perceived Impact of Outsourcing on Organizational Performance
This article explores reasons for outsourcing activities and relationships between outsourcing strategies and organizational performance. Study results indicate that organizations have benefitted from outsourcing but not to the extent expected.
Perceptions of Women as Managers in Chile and the United States
Using the Women as Managers Scale (WAMS), the authors in this article examine the perceptions of women managers among 412 male and female respondents from the U.S. and Chile. Males had more stereotypical and negative perceptions of women as managers than did female respondents.
The Social Responsibility of Management: A Reprise
The authors defend their thesis (published in Vol. 18 No. 1) of the shareholder paradigm as opposed to stakeholder theory in determining social responsibility of management and respond to Frederick Post’s comments. They argue that the stakeholder theory of corporate governance provides an ethical facade for self-serving management.
The Social Responsibility of Management: A Critique of the Shareholder Paradigm and Defense of Stakeholder Primacy
The author responds to Coelho et al., defends his argument of stakeholder primacy, and offers a critique of shareholder theory in determining the social responsibility of management. He argues that the shareholder theory allows management to ignore the interests of other constituencies while pursuing its own narrow self-interest.
