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For her New Year’s resolution, Gaowen has determined to finally get organized. She puts up shelves and racks, adds new filing cabinets, cupboards, a desk, and assorted bins, and sets about putting her electronics equipment, clothes, dishes, books, keys, and everything else all in their proper places. You can think of data objects as containers to help you get organized.
The company culture at the sports equipment manufacturer, unsurprisingly, is that most employees regularly participate in outside-of-work sports activities.
In 1900, sponge divers near the Greek island of Antikythera came upon a Roman shipwreck bestrewn with ancient statues, jewelry, and other treasure, and an odd looking, very encrusted gear mechanism. Retrieved and then studied for decades, it took until 1974 for scientists to unravel the mystery of the mechanism’s purpose. It was a computer, designed and built in Egypt around 100 BCE, that could predict the positions of the sun, moon, and planets, and the timings of solar eclipses and Olympic Games events.
There is a criminal trial in progress and the prosecutor tells the jury that the defendant’s DNA was found at the crime scene. This, says the prosecutor, is enough to prove that the defendant did commit the crime. In fact, someone’s DNA was indeed found at the crime scene, and it could be the defendant’s, according to a DNA expert who testifies that there is only a 1 in a million chance that the DNA could be from someone else. Even so, the prosecutor insists, that means there is a 99.99999% chance that the DNA is from the defendant, which is so overwhelmingly conclusive that any reasonable person would agree the DNA must be from the defendant. The prosecutor presses the jury for a conviction.
Here is the game. You are presented with 3 doors. You can’t see what is behind them, but you have been truthfully told that behind 1 door is a fabulous luxury car, which you want. Behind the other 2 doors are goats, which you don’t want. You get to choose any 1 of the doors and receive the prize behind it.
Could a European swallow fly a coconut from the African continent to the British Isles? You can think of bagging as convening a committee of general experts to answer some questions, perhaps questions involving aerodynamics (the study of flying), carpology (the study of seeds and fruits like coconuts), and ornithology (the study of birds like swallows).
Alan Strudler’s “Lying about Reservation Prices in Business Negotiation: A Qualified Defense” challenges a number of claims I make in a prior essay, “A Lie Is a Lie: The Ethics of Lying in Business Negotiations.” Here, I examine Strudler’s critique and seek to refute his various arguments—in particular, those based on assumption of risk and the signalling value of reservation price lies.
This essay reconsiders the possibility and prospects for the relationship between business ethics scholarship and the world of business practice. More specifically, to a field that often considers the question, “What should be the role of business in society?” it poses the question, “What should be the role of the Society for Business Ethics in business?” My intent is not to solve the related epistemological question of whether we have to “be one to know one.” It is, however, to encourage scholars to leave our laboratories more often to engage with the work and world of those we study. To that end, the essay poses a series of questions for us – individual scholars, members of the Society, and the Society itself – to consider about our relationship with business. It concludes with a postscript response to one of those questions: When, if ever, should the Society make public statements?
Compelling and robust, this book provides an analysis of challenges in public service outsourcing and considers how to avoid failure in the future. Examining how barriers to implementing this idea within the existing EU and UK legal frameworks may be addressed, the book formulates actionable policy proposals.
Employee voice and silence research shows workers’ ability to express dissatisfaction is impeded by a range of factors. This paper focuses on two: the power asymmetry inherent in the employment relationship, and work context. It examines early career academics (ECAs) – mainly doctoral students, associate lecturers, and assistant professors – many of whom are immersed in atypical, employment or employment-like relationships that are frequently experienced as disempowering. A scoping review provides a frame for understanding ECA voice and silence. It finds there is little on ECAs in the employee voice and silence literature. However, broader concepts of voice and silence are discussed in higher education research on doctoral students and other types of ECAs. Complex work arrangements, difficult supervisory relationships, and hierarchical norms stifle ECA voice. Supervision conceptualised as co-created ‘critical friendship’ facilitates voice. Studies that expand knowledge of ECA voice and silence are recommended, especially as concerns about ECA wellbeing grow.