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Laurie Haughey
Intelligent Life in the Universe This 30-minute exercise begins with a cartoon-prompt and proceeds to explore evidence of ethical behavior. |
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A lexical challenge in this 30-minute exercise encourages ethical leaders to consider multiple viewpoints. |
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Take Offense and Take the Offensive Real-world scenarios are used in this exercise, which urges participants to speak up in order to right wrongs. It takes about 25 minutes to complete. |
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In this 20-minute exercise, participants identify attributes of ethical leaders and then engage in a related brain teaser. |
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This 15-minute exercise examines the ethical responsibilities leaders have to weigh their words carefully before expressing them. |
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Park Your Ethicar in the Harvard Yard Participants in this 45-minute exercise compare current reasons for unethical behavior to those given in a Harvard study a quarter-century ago. |
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You Don’t Need Leaders to Tell People the Good News This exercise, which requires 45 minutes, has participants complete a comparison matrix and then work on delivering a bad-news message. |
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Machiavellian, Manipulative, or Masterful? A quiz starts off this 30-minute exercise, after which participants explore two case studies taken from actual corporate occurrences. |
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In this 25-minute exercise, participants consider the best way to propose organizational change. |
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Individual and group consensus choices are made in this 45-minute exercise, which examines the correlations among power, leadership, and ethics. |
Thomas J. Mitrano
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Eve Strella and Gwen Martone The timeframe for this exercise is 60 to 90 minutes. It explores verbally abusive behavior and its ramifications through a series of interactive activities. |
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This short, 15-minute exercise aims to make participants aware of personal and organizational liabilities associated with unethical use of the Internet. |
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To Be or Not to Be . . . Civil The letter of the law and the spirit of the law are considered in this 25-minute exercise, based on a real-world scenario. |
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Librarians Don’t Rule the World! Pictorial images are employed in this 15-minute exercise as a means of describing the ethical climate in participants’ organizations. |
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Lloyd A. Conway Minor but pervasive ethical violations that occur in the workplace are examined in this 20-minute exercise. |
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Eve Strella and Gwen Martone In this 60 to 75-minute exercise, participants are asked to think about the consequences of seemingly innocent behavior. |
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Based on a controversial political practice, this 45-minute exercise raises a series of ethical questions for employees. |
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Participants will need 15 minutes to compare personal values to organizational purpose in this exercise, which calls for the formulation of a challenging question. |
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Based on Jack Welch background material, participants are asked to devise ways to make job loss less devastating. |
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This 25-minute exercise examines the difficulty of doing the right thing when that “thing” causes private morality to conflict with company loyalty. |
Robin Wilson
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This 20-minute game asks participants to relate common phrases to the ethical climate in their organization. |
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A Sale of Need Is a Sale Indeed The importance of bidirectional selling is emphasized in this 25-minute exercise. |
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Participants have 45 minutes to write and deliver a full-disclosure script selling their organization’s product or service. |
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With this 20-minute energizer, triads compete to list 26 ethical sales behaviors. |
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Participants in this 45-minute exercise identify the ideal celebrity to sell their product or service and then prepare a short pitch incorporating a quality associated with that person. |
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Newspapers are used in this 40-minute exercise to determine the reasons why consumer faith is eroding. These reasons are then used to actually persuade buyers. |
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A matrix is used in this 30-minute exercise to determine what customers need to know and what they deserve to know. |
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An assessment tool regarding the sales culture forms the basis of this 25-minute exercise, which also explores the degree to which those at the top influence culture as a whole. |
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Customer-appeal words are considered in this 20-minute exercise. Participants then explore how to use these words both ethically and unethically. |
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In this 30-minute activity, participants learn some strategies for overcoming objections and then discuss whether, from an ethical perspective, those objections should be overcome. |
Nan DeMars
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Mike Morrell Participants have 60 minutes to analyze a copy of their organization’s ethics policy and to report their subgroup findings. |
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During this 30-minute exercise, based on a real-life executive’s poor choice of words, participants determine how best to modify such communications. |
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Regina Robertson The ethical issues of giving and taking credit are studied in this 35-minute exercise. |
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This 25-minute exercise gives new meaning to everyday acronyms and then asks participants to relate these to ethical situations managers often face. |
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Participants in this 30-minute exercise explore nonmanipulative communication as it relates to both upward and downward expression. |
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This 20-minute exercise starts off on a light note, but proceeds to look seriously at the elements that constitute ethical management. |
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Will the Real Ethical Manager Please Stand? The focus of this 25-minute exercise is the ethical gap between perception and reality. Participants fill out an ethical profile and use it as a discussion and action resource. |
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A monograph is distributed to participants in this 50 to 60-minute exercise, which culminates in the formation of a set of workplace principles. |
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Mike Morrell In this 60-minute exercise, participants compare their responses on a number of workplace situations involving ethical choices. |
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M. Vasudevan Designed to improve performance levels, this 45 to 60-minute exercise treats participants to Indian parables and anecdotes illustrating key management concepts. |
Kristin J. Arnold
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Stephen Hobbs This 60 to 75-minute exercise highlights trustworthiness in relation to team–member interactions during the course of a guided tour through real and metaphorical obstacles. |
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Forty-five minutes is the time needed for this exercise, which uses a case study to encourage input regarding a choice that might be more cosmetic than cosmological in its impact. |
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Participants serve as ex officio judges in this 45-minute exercise that has them compare team situations to the court’s ruling in comparable, actual cases. |
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This 10-minute energizer illustrates the potential danger associated with seemingly innocent remarks that may violate the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. |
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Partners in this 20-minute exercise work on real-world scenarios involving ethical decision-making teams. |
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How Do You Spell “L-E-A-D-E-R”? This 20-minute game prompts discussion of the qualities needed for ethical team leadership. |
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With this 15-minute exercise, participants will have a better understanding of the problems associated with a leader’s or public figure’s far-reaching or poorly expressed statements. |
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Participants in this 25-minute exercise undertake a study of the fear team members and leaders may have to deal with. |
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This Is the House That MAC Built This puzzle-dependent exercise has participants take 20 minutes to consider what constitutes ethical teamwork. |
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Relevant research and storytelling combine in this 45-minute exercise to challenge participants’ creativity by asking them to glean ethical insights from real-world situations. |