Do Company Practices Affect the Acceptance of a Job or Assignment? On Wednesday, July 30, I posted a blog on my “Ethics Sage” blog sight that addresses the ethics of the Big 4 accounting firms and whether candidates for a position with the firms should check out the record of ethics for these firms. I believe, at […]
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Report from Resume Now Explains Why Values in the Workplace Are Sometimes Ignored Every so often, I come across an interesting survey that emphasizes the importance of ethics in the workplace. I just read one that deals with values. This new survey from Resume Now shows a widespread “values gap”—the disconnect between corporate messaging and lived employee
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Are College Graduates Equipped for the Jobs of the Future? I’ve been concerned about the overuse of AI systems such as ChatGPT by college students who rely on it too much. It has the potential to detract from using creative thinking in responding to questions and in creating essays and term papers. I was curious
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Are You Suffering from Job Burnout? I have been blogging about workplace culture for some time. Recently, I discussed the issue of ‘quiet cracking,’ which has been defined as a persistent feeling of workplace unhappiness that leads to disengagement, poor performance, and an increased desire to quit. Of course, there is more to it than that. Quiet Quitting I
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Ethical Foundations Ethics is the backbone of the company. Employees want to work for an ethical company free from workplace discrimination and harassment. They want to work for a company that values their opinions, treats them fairly, takes complaints seriously, promotes transparency including having a hot line, and one that does not retaliate against them
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The Professionalization of College Athletes Perhaps you read that a federal judge signed off on a controversial change in how college sports are administered including paying college athletes of former players who were barred from millions of dollars as soon as in July 2025. The terms of the settlement of a lawsuit filed by Arizona State swimmer
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Meeting Employees Where They Are At Last week I blogged about ‘quiet quitting’ and how it can affect workplace behavior. In today’s blog, I examine the concept of ‘quiet cracking’ and how it relates to quiet quitting, job performance and job satisfaction. Reviewing ‘Quiet Quitting’ Quiet quitting refers to employees who disengage from their roles
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Distinguishing Quiet Quitting from “Resenteeism” Today’s blog is the beginning of a series of blogs that will discuss Gen Z workers and whether they are any different from millennials and their predecessors–Gen X and Baby Boomers. I look at the concept of “quiet quitting” today and how it affects workplace behavior. But first, let’s look
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Benefits of Work Experience Gen Z workers complain about being labeled as lazy. One explanation that is discussed in an article by Marissa Matozzo in the New York Post is that ‘People like to talk about us but not talk to us.’ When I read this statement, it made me think about a blog I wrote in October 2024
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A Case of Government Overreach I have previously blogged about the accomplishments and questionable actions by Donald Trump since assuming the office of President of the U.S. I did not tackle the question of the fairness of cutting federal funding to the elite and other universities because of the way they oversaw student behavior on campus towards
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