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The Side Effects of Culture Change: How to Anticipate and Manage Them

When a company transitions to a new culture, everyone, from those who are leading the change to those who are experiencing it, can have complex responses. Some are positive — and some are bad enough that they threaten the likelihood of the change’s success. It’s a leader’s role to manage those responses, including his or her own.

China’s Product Safety Problem: How Should Marketing Managers Make Ethical Decisions in China?

By Bang Nguyen and David De Cremer

China has been known to be the world’s largest manufacturer, but its growth has reduced and thus is affecting consumer’s decision to buy due to various reasons. Bang Nguyen and David De Cremer will tackle in this article on how marketing managers in China can make ethical decisions while still maintaining business as usual.

A Time for European Diplomacy to Come of Age: Responding to the Refugee Crisis

By Susi Dennison

“People will always want to migrate for a better life: this is a constant reality.” But the harrowing images on the news that the general public are confronted with of men, women and children arriving en masse on European shores are of refugees – not migrants – escaping from war and conflict in countries where the situation is getting worse, not better. In this article Susi Dennison discusses the worsening refugee crisis, and how the challenges it presents the EU can be tackled by its foreign policy.

The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance

The Leader’s Role: Leverage Your Soap Box

By Jim Whitehurst

In this edited excerpt from his book “The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance”, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst discusses that by having capable, engaged people who recognize the importance of the goal and then expecting them to solve it in their own way is a much richer and subtler approach than a top-down planning process would generate.

Fads and Fashions in Management

By Adrian Furnham

In this article, the author shows that many fads and fashions in management are short lived and based upon flimsy evidence, yet enjoy a period of support. His arguments are important tools for managers who want to understand the substance and rigour, or lack of it, associated with modern management ideas and concepts.

Ethics in Finance: Why is it such a problem?

By John Hendry

Despite the best efforts of all concerned, the financial sector continues to have a bad reputation for illegal and unethical behaviour and to be more prone to ethical lapses than other business sectors. John Hendry explores why this should be, and what might be done about it in practice.

Making Renminbi a World Currency would not be Bad for Euro

By Dan Steinbock

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will decide this month whether to make the Chinese Renminbi the fifth international reserve currency. For the Euro, that would not be a win or lose game.

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