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Differences In Financial Performance And Risk Tolerance At Faith-Based Credit Unions, Bruce J. Toews
Differences In Financial Performance And Risk Tolerance At Faith-Based Credit Unions, Bruce J. Toews
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
In the United States, faith-based and other small credit unions are vanishing at the rate of nearly a credit union each workday. The purpose of this causal-comparative study was to provide managers of faith-based credit unions with information about differences in financial performance and risk tolerance between faith-based and non-faith-based credit unions in order to improve their investment strategy and long-term sustainability. The study included a comparison of ratios measuring the financial performance and risk tolerance of randomly selected faith-based credit unions in the United States with the corresponding ratios of non-faith-based credit unions of similar size and location from …
Ethical Insights Of Early 21st-Century Corporate Leaders, Kevin B. Jones
Ethical Insights Of Early 21st-Century Corporate Leaders, Kevin B. Jones
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
From 2001 to 2010, a lack of documented standards within ethics programs inhibited decision making, management practices, and corporate strategies for corporate leaders in the United States. Seminal theories in transformational, charismatic, servant, spiritual, and ethical leadership formed the conceptual framework for this phenomenological study, whose intent was to explore how senior leaders of Fortune 500 companies in Washington, DC integrated ethics into daily business decisions and the role in organizational performance. A convenience sample of 20 Fortune 500 leaders participated in face-to-face semistructured interviews to explore the assessment, definition, and documentation of various ethical standards in the company; the …