Business Ethics: The Law of Corporate Karma

According to the shamanic traditions, the great mystery of being is that all things are alive and have a level of intelligence. This is because all things are a part of the Great Spirit. However, all things also function individually, in thought and action. It is in these individual actions... Read More

Ethics in Business...A Lost Art

While watching Face the Nation one Sunday earlier this year, Bob Schiffer discussed the airline industry, his mother and ethics in business. Like Bob, I think it is a sad commentary today, that we have to police businesses. Whatever happened to going into business to provide a needed service, being... Read More

Ethics in Business - Please Have Some

Is your business ethical?What I mean is "Does your business do the right thing when faced with that decision?" It's a simple question, which many businesses struggle with. I just don't understand the struggle part?I have worked for companies that believed they were ethical, and really have no clue. Meaning... Read More

Top 10 Principles for Positive Business Ethics

This morning, I read about a company using on-line auctions to defraud customers. Last week, I consulted on an ethics complaint where a business coach betrayed a client's confidentiality. And, recently a Physician was convicted of insider trading based on information from a patient, a violation of both business ethics... Read More

How To Build A Business Ethics Program

Recent corporate financial scandals have highlighted the importance of business ethics and legal compliance. Yet a recent National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) survey of 280 corporate CEOs and directors found that "only one of three directors felt that they were highly effective in ensuring legal compliance".Ethics in BusinessMost companies... Read More

Ethics In The Workplace

Workplace Ethics is a subject that we have all heard of. In fact, the subject of Ethics in general is something that most people are familiar with. And, what is commonly understood about ethics is there are ethics and then there are workplace ethics. What most people don't realize, however,... Read More

Do Organizations Serve Us Or Do We Serve Organizations

We have seen an erosion in the confidence that society has in organizational leadership and its integrity recently with the numerous accounting scandals that have become public.Clearly this has led to the demise of several large organizations. In performance terms it is obvious that erosion of leadership integrity is not... Read More

Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: Shifting Culture and Climate in Todays Corporate World

This articles relates to the AlphaMeasure core competency Culture and Climate. AlphaMeasure defines climate as the effect an organization has on the employees, while culture refers more to the acceptable behaviors, attitudes, and habits of the organization as a whole. Knowing and understanding workplace culture and climate leads to a... Read More

Business Ethics: An Oxymoron

An oxymoron: the juxtaposition of contradictory words or concepts. That is what we have with the term "Business Ethics". The very contradiction that is inherent in this latter phrase is an indication of the challenge that individuals who work for organizations face as we all approach the resource limits of... Read More

Laws and Ethics?. Who?s Kidding Who?

Years ago I read an article by a renowned psychologist wherein he wrote his studies found one percent of all human beings would never lie, cheat or steal. One percent would always lie, cheat or steal and given the right set of circumstances, the rest of us would likely lie,... Read More

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Ethicists blast chair of science ethics panel for taking global warming ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — In the field of climate science, when someone — especially skeptics — did something ethically questionable or misrepresented facts, scientist Peter Gleick was usually among the first and loudest to cry foul.
Ethicists blast science ethics panel chairman for taking global warming ...Winnipeg Free Press
Berkeley-based scientist causes ethics storm over climate change documentsContra Costa Times
Gleick hurt by ethics lapse over climate papersSan Francisco Chronicle
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Miami-Dade ethics report rips ticket freebies
MiamiHerald.com
The Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust is holding a public discussion on recommendations that elected officials be removed from the process of doling out complimentary event tickets to the public. By David Smiley When the world's ...

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Ethics reform will restore trust
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Conservatives throughout Georgia have encouraged legislators to pass two ethics reform bills. These bills offered by Sen. Josh McKoon, R-Columbus, and Rep. Tommy Smith, R-Nicholls, put a cap on the amount lobbyists are permitted to spend on legislators ...

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Ethical or Not, Silicon Valley Bloggers Hit Up VCs for Angel Funds
Daily Beast
Traditional journalists cringe at this kind of “hacks for hire” business model, but from an utterly cynical perspective, it's kind of brilliant—as long as you can get over the whole “ethics” thing. So who would manage it? “I have no idea.

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John Roberts on Mandatory Ethics Rules: Thanks, But No Thanks
Huffington Post (blog)
All federal judges are required to abide by a set of ethics rules spelled out in the Code, which includes many general guidelines, and also specific common-sense prohibitions on engaging in political activity and being active participants in ...
Supreme Court's refusal on ethics rules rankles CongressGant Daily
High Court Rejects Formal Ethics RulesWCVB-TV
Roberts says no to formal ethics rulesBoston.com

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Los Angeles Times

The ethics of disaster tourism: What is the right thing to do?
Los Angeles Times
Wanting to see a place where disaster has struck is not always a sign of insensitivity, said Patricia Illingworth, an ethics professor at Northeastern University, a lawyer and a lecturer in law at Northeastern University School of Law and author of “Us ...

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Sarah Palin's former aide Bailey fined over email use
Kansas City Star
Frank Bailey, the former Sarah Palin aide turned tell-all author, has agreed to pay an $11900 civil fine for violating the state's ethics laws by keeping, disseminating and profiting from confidential emails he obtained while serving in Palin's ...
Palin aide pays $11900 fine to settle ethics complaint over emailsmsnbc.com (blog) (subscription)
Sarah Palin's former aide fined $11900 for using confidential emails in bookPocono Record
Ex-Palin aide fined for using state emails in bookCBS News
Anchorage Daily News
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Expressway authority approves Wekiva Parkway, ethics rules
WDBO Radio
At a Wednesday meeting, the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority board approved a deal to build the Wekiva Parkway, and it approved some new, tougher ethics rules. The meeting became contentious at times over the issue of whether board member ...
Expressway board approves Wekiva Parkway, ethics changeOrlando Sentinel
Wekiwa Parkway, ethics policy approvedWKMG Orlando

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Introducing Robot Ethics
Boston.com
In Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics, Patrick Lin (a science ethicist), Keith Abney (a philosopher of science) and George Bekey (a computer scientist) argue that the same is true about robots. Today, they are technological ...


Paying research volunteers raises ethical concerns, study concludes
Science Codex
In the first national study to examine their views on this question, the majority of institutional review board members and other research ethics professionals expressed persistent ethical concern about the effects of offering payment to research ...

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