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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Balancing corporate compliance costs and market protection

The rise in corporate governance and its associated disclosure requirements and costs are forcing unnecessarily higher costs and demands on businesses, draining their ability to be globally competitive, the accumulated costs and time requirements imposed on corporations to be in compliance with a…

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Transformational leadership as superior to trait and behavioral approaches

How much more successful are current views about what makes a good leader? The researcher proves that transformational leadership is the best model of leadership if one's goals include success, because it empowers subordinates and followers so that objectives and goals are more often met.

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Privacy rights and counterintelligence operations in U.S. intelligence agencies

Counterintelligence, by its very nature, is designed to be intrusive. This means that, very often, it steps outside the bounds of what ordinary Americans consider to be their right to personal privacy.

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Human Rights Watch recommendations for meatpacking industry worker safety

Workplace safety [...] Human Rights Watch (HRW) recommendations for worker safety in the meatpacking industry, and the viability of those recommendations.

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The New Haven firefighters case and reverse discrimination claims

"Firefighting is a skilled job where all of the skills learned are on the job… It's a really good job, and it's been racially exclusive in most of our major cities…" (John Payton, NAACP) (Liptak, 2009, The New York Times)

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How leaders balance personal ambition with ethical stewardship in organizations

Even upon an initial, cursory examination of the terms, there readily appears to be significant correlation between the concepts of leadership, trustworthiness, and ethical stewardship when applied to a corporate or enterprise-based model.

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Chris Argyris on individual personality and formal organization structure

Author Chris Argyris argues that there should be more information available, more research done, on the relationship between the formal structure of the organization and the individuals who work within that structure for the organization.

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Distributed and servant leadership effects on student achievement in middle schools

The effects of distributed and servant leadership within a middle school environment is best measured and made most relevant when student achievement scores, both in the short- and long-range, significantly exceed regional and national averages.

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Group behavior and role conflict in hospital organizations

There are so many different companies that have embraced executive coaching and mentoring as their principal way to support development creativities in hospital settings. However in today's corporate world these do not talk to the real-world, group dynamics that managers have to deal with.

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External threats facing Starbucks in capital markets and competition

Starbucks is faced with a multitude of challenges from outside its own environment. These threats can include increasing prices in the commodities and other resources, changing economic conditions within the global environment or any other challenges presented by the external environment.

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