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AIG's financial bailout and ethical failures during the 2008 crisis

The exceptional lack of ethics during the first years of the 21st century immediately triggered an onslaught of global legislation that sought to enforce governance and compliance across businesses globally.

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Managing conflicts through identity in post-apartheid South African organizations

Diversity in the workforce is one of the most critical issues of concern for modern managers today.

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Pricing strategies for pharmaceutical benefit manager generic drug programs

As a pharmaceutical benefit manager, I have a variety of pricing strategies at my disposal, to determine the amount charged to employers for prescription drugs. This paper will briefly assess each of these strategies. Despite these tools, as Jones (2003) notes,

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Michael Abrashoff's "It's Your Ship": leadership and management transformation

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What are the key leadership skills that today's Human Resource professionals need in order to function seamlessly and effectively?

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Pre and post-acquisition safety culture at a roofing company

Describe the safety conditions that existed before the company was sold to the new owner. Before the company was sold to a new owner, Mundy claims that "management did only what it perceived as 'absolutely necessary' to avoid OSHA fines," (p. 3).

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Improving supervisor-employee communication at Kongsberg Automotive

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Jane Goodall, Roger Revelle, and Michael Pollan on global warming's impact

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Xeriscaping as a water conservation solution for American households

While many Americans are more concerned about the increasing scarcity of oil supplies around the world, the harsh reality is that water is far more valuable than oil and it is becoming even scarcer as aquifers are depleted and the global human population continues to grow.

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The Dust Bowl and agricultural policy in Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck's novel the Grapes of Wrath is a fictional account of a very real period of American history -- when the soil literally blew away on the farmlands of America.

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