The factors that motivate China’s executives and workers are no different from those that motivate any executive or any worker. So says Zhang Zhixue, an expert on Chinese business, who thinks Westerners are needlessly perplexed by China.
Max Bazerman is the author or editor of 16 books and more than 180 research articles, including a recent paper on why we aren’t as ethical as we think we are. In this interview, he tells why we don’t accurately assess our ethicality and why the nature of decision making can force executives to behave unethically.
Robert Frank, author of The Economic Naturalist, shares his take on the “miserably bad job” most colleges do of teaching economics and explains the effect it has on economic decision making. He also tells why simple questions like the ones his students pose have implications from the classroom to the CEO suite.