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Asking Tough Questions

By Sandra Gray - Listed here are some questions that leaders should ask of their organizations to ensure that ethical concerns and issues are addressed in a timely manner. (Added: 26-Feb-2007 Hits: 1253 )

Audit Your Ethics

By Sandra Gray - You can learn more about auditing your organization's ethics here. Learn about the audit process and what to do with your ethics audit results. (Added: 26-Feb-2007 Hits: 1072 )

Avoiding On-the-Edge Ethical Choices

By Sandra Gray - Why do good people sometimes make bad ethical choices? According to Michael G. Daigneault, president of the Ethics Resource Center, Washington D.C. and Judy Belk, vice-president of community affairs for Levi-Strauss Foundation, San Francisco, people often make bad ethical choices based on any number of rationalizations. Find out more when you read this article. (Added: 26-Feb-2007 Hits: 1107 )

Blind Spots: We're Not as Ethical as We Think

By Sean Silverthorne - Think back to recent events when people making unethical decisions grabbed the headlines. How did auditors approve the books of Enron and Lehman Brothers? How did feeder funds sell Bernard Madoff's invesments? We would never act as they did, we think. We operate under a higher standard. But the fact is that while we like to think of ourselves as fair, moral, and lawful, recent science shows us that we are quite capable of committing unethical acts, or approving of the dishonest acts of others, even as we believe we are doing the right thing. ^new (Added: 27-Nov-2011 Hits: 123 )

Borderline Ethics?

By Bernard Liebowitz - Take a look of some of the business practices that take place in the name of competition these days. An example would be giving two customers two different price quotes. Read the author's reasons for calling borderline ethics dangerous to business and society. (Added: 7-Feb-2007 Hits: 858 )

Business And Leadership Ethics

By n a - According to Kenneth Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale, authors of The Power of Business Ethics Management, there are three questions you should ask yourself whenever you are faced with an ethical dilemma. Find out what the questions are and read the scenario described here to help develop your personal leadership ethics. (Added: 2-Feb-2007 Hits: 1202 )

CEOs: Setting the Ethical Tone

By n a - The role of the CEO in setting a company's ethical culture was the focus of a panel at the April 6 meeting of the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership, a program of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and 13 corporations. See what each CEO does in his organization to set its ethical tone. (Added: 26-Feb-2007 Hits: 878 )

Codify Your Ethics

By Sandra Gray - One reason that you should codify your ethics is to avoid ethically compromising situations within your association. This article willl help you to develop a code of ethics to be used as a resource for your staff. (Added: 26-Feb-2007 Hits: 825 )

CONNECTING THE DOTS BETWEEN LEADERSHIP, ETHICS AND CORPORATE CULTURE

By James O'Toole - With increasing frequency, farsighted corporate leaders, the business media, and the most progressive business schools are using a new management vocabulary. This new lexicon includes words and phrases such as Globalism, Sustainable Growth, Stakeholders, Continuous Innovation, Corporate Culture, Ethics and Values-Based Leadership. While these words may appear unrelated, the dots between them can be connected. When they are, they constitute a formidable challenge for the business community: Leaders of global corporations must learn how to create socially and economically sustainable corporate cultures. (Added: 24-Nov-2009 Hits: 352 )

Constructing Ethical Systems

By Sandra Gray - The author provides you with the essential steps required to construct an ethical system within your organization. Learn more about disclosure, analyis, dissemination, and sanctions to find out how these items can set up a ethical system within your company. (Added: 26-Feb-2007 Hits: 879 )

Culture Suggests Cheaters Do Prosper

By Kirk O. Hanson - A good discussion regarding ethics in everyday life that can be applied to business. Also discussed is the damage done to society when it seems that cheaters do prosper. (Added: 26-Feb-2007 Hits: 638 )

Diversity and Leadership

By Donald Clark - This article poses and then provides very detailed answers to these two questions. Why Must We Embrace Diversity? and Why Is Embracing Diversity Such A Huge Challenge? Also, provided is a great definition of diversity. (Added: 21-Feb-2007 Hits: 612 )

Encouraging Internal Whistleblowing in Organizations

By Lilanthi Ravishankar - A good read if you want to know how to encourage your employees to report unethical behaviors. Find out how to implement a whistleblowing program and good reasons for doing so. (Added: 26-Feb-2007 Hits: 673 )

Ethical Challenges in Human Resources

By James O'Toole - "Of course Aristotle never heard of a large business or corporation. Nonetheless he did raise a set of questions that corporate leaders who wish to behave ethically need to ask themselves ......" See what those questions are and how you can apply them to your business situation. (Added: 26-Feb-2007 Hits: 538 )

Ethical Leadership Military Intelligence

By Lawrence J. Haubrich - An excellent discussion about leadership ethics in the military services. Learn what is expected from leaders in the military services and how ethical leadership is developed. (Added: 7-Feb-2007 Hits: 416 )

Ethics and Company Folklore

By n a - The most pregnant moment to establish ethics is when you’re just starting up because actions that leadership takes during that phase become the folklore of the company and set the tone. These are the stories that are told about how management went about dealing with problems. The folklore is really a statement of the company’s decision-making processes—including its ethical decision-making processes—that everyone can relate to. (Added: 26-Feb-2007 Hits: 454 )

Five Standards of Excellence Practiced by Ethical Leaders | workforce.com

By Marlene Carosolli. - Book excerpt from The Business Ethics Activity Book: 50 Exercises for Promoting Integrity at Work, this article addresses important standard for guiding ethical leadership in corporations. (Added: 22-Feb-2007 Hits: 489 )

Harry Kraemer's Moment of Truth

By Keith H. Hammonds - In an era when the business section read like the police blotter, the CEO of Baxter International faced a tough ethical dilemma. And he did something noteworthy: He actually did the right thing. (Added: 16-Feb-2007 Hits: 393 )

High Ambition Leadership

By Martha Lagace - What is welcome and all too rare? Leaders who care about building great institutions, not just profits. What sets these leaders apart in their practice and outlook? Harvard Business School's Michael Beer in his new book, Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value, examines how CEOs from major companies around the globe—Becton Dickinson, IKEA, Tata Group—made a positive difference for their employees, their customers, their community, and society while not neglecting profits. Beer cowrote the book with Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote (Harvard MBA'81/JD'82), Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. "The world of business has been governed by an implicit leadership model," Beer explains. "With the exception of a minority of CEOs, however—those we interviewed and others like them—the purpose of the firm is defined by a single-minded focus on return on financial and physical assets, not creating social value." ^new (Added: 27-Nov-2011 Hits: 124 )

HighTech Women: The Business of Ethics

By Jane Collier - The author offers key suggestions for keeping your company ethical. You will want to review each suggestion to determine if you as a leader, are demonstrating these ethical principles. (Added: 7-Feb-2007 Hits: 284 )