Background
Collins, Denis was born on January 12, 1956 in Bronx, New York, United States. Son of Walter J. and Gloria T. Collins.
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Denis Collins believes that participatory management systems are inevitable in democratic societies because they are ethically superior to authoritarian management systems. Managers must begin to share decision making and economic outcomes with their employees if they want to obtain long-term efficiency and effectiveness in a competitive business environment. Changes in power relationships are bound to occur in the transitional period, Collins reports, and will challenge the flexibility of management.Scanlon Plans were developed in the 1930s as a way to link improvements in productivity to employee wages. Popular because of the large amount of employee involvement in their design, Scanlon Plans are in place at 260 Fortune 1000 companies, as well as many smaller firms. To understand the considerable variation in the success of gainsharing plans and participatory management more generally, Collins studied six companies that used Scanlon Programs, explaining the nuts and bolts of each plan. He addresses the concerns of workers, managers, and unions when they were present, highlighting political games employees must address to enhance success. Collins then offers a new theory of gainsharing based on conflicts of interest at work.
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Behaving Badly: Ethical Lessons from Enron puts the reader in the shoes of Enron executives through the journey of the once prominent and now infamous company. Enron began as a newly merged firm in 1985 with too much debt, rose on Wall Street during the 1990s, and collapsed in December 2001. This is the first book to treat Enron's financial problems as complex ethical issues managers may face daily - often without recognizing them as such. Key decisions are presented in real-time from several perspectives, including those of Lay, Skilling, Fastow, board members, auditors, lawyers, and investment bankers. The seemingly simple question readers are asked to consider is: What would you have done, had you been employed by, or doing business with, Enron? Readers can debate their answers with colleagues. Award winning business ethics professor Denis Collins also provides advice on creating and sustaining an ethical culture in any company, offering a decision-making tool and framework that managers can use to intentionally steer their company away from the road Enron traveled. Readers may share answers to decision points at: http://business.edgewood.edu/behavingbadly
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This book is designed as a supplemental text for readings in Business Ethics, Business and Society, or any area in which the user wishes to emphasize ethical coverage. The text uses the hypothetical multi-national corporation Big Mess, Inc. to offer a teaching methodology and model for analyzing ethical dilemmas in any business. The 24 ethical dilemmas that affect the managers of Big Mess Inc.'s eight departments enable the user to focus on the functional area of business that is of interest.
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The essential guide to creating an organization ofhigh integrity and superior performance With the high-profile corporate scandals that have taken place in recent years, corporate ethics are more important to a business than ever before. The failure of ethical leadership in an organization is very destructive-it demoralizes the workforce, breeds public distrust, and ultimately results in organizational decay. Based on more than two decades of consulting, teaching, and research, Denis Collins's Essentials of Business Ethics is designed with appreciation for your demanding professional obligations, with easy-to-find, at-your-fingertips information. Its nuts-and-bolts presentation provides you with practical "how-to" examples and best practices on every area of managing ethics inside your organization in a handy, concise format. This brief yet powerful guide presents executives and leaders with timely discussion on: • Human nature and unethical behavior in organizations • Determining the ethics of job candidates • The differences between a Code of Ethics and a Code of Conduct • The best practices for managing diversity • Using Management-by-Objectives to establish work goals that encourage ethical behavior • Performance appraisals that reward ethical behaviors • Aligning community outreach with the company's mission and assets • Handling the environmental change process • How to manage three internal communication mechanisms for employees to report potentially unethical or illegal behaviors: an Ethics & Compliance Office, Ombudsman, and Ethics Hotlines Providing a five-step ethics job-screen process and an ethical decision-making framework, as well as guidelines for conducting a variety of business ethics workshops, Essentials of Business Ethics is the only guide you will need containing all the relevant facts on business ethics, all in one place.
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Collin's Business Ethics: An Organization Systems Approach to Designing Ethical Organizations provides theoretical and practical information to help create organizations of high integrity and superior performance. The text offers ways to design organizations that reinforce ethical behavior and reduce risks. It's organized based on an "Optimal Ethics Systems Model" which includes ethical job candidates, decision making, training, officers and hotlines, leadership, work goals and performance appraisals, environmental management, and community outreach. Early chapters present types of ethical issues organizations face, history of government regulation, the importance and extent of codes of ethics and conduct, an ethical decision-making framework, and the importance and extent of managing the natural environment and being a good corporate citizen - as well as new ideas and models. In addition, Collins provides a much broader array of best practices in business ethics to immediately implement many of the management techniques.
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Collins, Denis was born on January 12, 1956 in Bronx, New York, United States. Son of Walter J. and Gloria T. Collins.
Bachelor of Business Administration, Montclair State College, 1977; Master of Arts in Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, 1987; Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration, U. Pittsburgh, 1990.
He received a Bachelor of Surgery in business administration from Montclair State University in 1977, an Master of Arts He specialized in business ethics, teaching it at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Bridgeport, and Edgewood College. They typically take the form of step-by-step instructions, like recipes. Collins offers empirical evidence that sustained financial success requires implementation of this model.
The offers best practices in five categories:
Hiring practices
Procedures for recruiting individuals who demonstrate and sustain ethical behavior over time
Orientation practices
Procedures for orienting new employees to a code of ethics and conduct
Procedures for orienting new employees to an ethical decision-making framework
Training practices
Procedures for teaching ethics
Operating practices
Procedures for nurturing respect for employee and customer diversity
Systems for reporting ethical misbehavior
Procedures for ethical leadership and management (rewarding ethical behavior)
Procedures for managing interaction with the natural environment
Procedures for conducting meaningful community outreach
Evaluation practices
Procedures for continually improving best practices
Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, 2004–2007
Journal of Business Ethics, 2003–
Journal of Academic Ethics, 2002–
Organization & Environment, 1996–1999
International Association for Business and Society, 1995
Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management, 1995–1998.
(The essential guide to creating an organization ofhigh in...)
(Collin's Business Ethics: An Organization Systems Approac...)
(Denis Collins believes that participatory management syst...)
(This book is designed as a supplemental text for readings...)
(Behaving Badly: Ethical Lessons from Enron puts the reade...)
(Creating an Organization of High Integrity and Superior P...)
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Speaker on business ethics. Member Academy Management (various committees since 1990), Society for Business Ethics, International Association Business and Society (proceedings editor 1993, 94), Beta Gamma Sigma, Delta Kappa Psi.
Married Dianne Jenkins, July 27, 1984;children: Seth, Anna.