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Poll: Local Ethics in a Global Business World: Are ethics absolute, or are they dictated by the context of the society in which the actions take place? If you're doing business in a foreign land where facilitation payments - read: bribes - are a standard part of life, is it acceptable for you (and your company) to follow...; Tags: Business ethics, William Baker, ethics, custom; Blog posts 2008-04-30
Ethics Commission Gets Serious About Ethics: If the above headline sounds like something you might read in The Onion, that's because this story, out of Nashville, sounds like an Onion plotline. Two years ago, in the wake of a corruption scandal that sent five lawmakers to jail, Tennessee created a state ethics commission...; Tags: Business ethics, William Baker, ethics; Blog posts 2008-04-21
Ethics Management Myths: Learning from Them: Many ethical decisions are analyzed in reverse. Choosing what is right is often just an analysis of everything you know to be wrong. But when we're talking about trying to manage those ethics, to attempt the huge challenge of getting a large group of people to behave accordingly, what do...; Tags: Leadership, William Baker, business ethics, ethics; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Ethics Management Myths: Learning from Them: Ethics Management Myths: Learning from ThemEthics can save your companyNever underestimate the importance of ethics. People may think that such soft skills never affect the bottom line, but they very well do. The presence of ethics is important from the low-level employee to the more obvious status of an executive....; Tags: Business ethics, ethics, Ethics Management; Discussion threads 2008-05-07
"Lose Your Ethics, Lose Your Business": Check out this wonderfully scathing missive from Joe Scarlett, the former CEO of Tractor Supply, on how an ethical lapse led to the biggest beef recall in history, and the destruction of a company, Westland/Hallmark Meat. There's so much about the California meat scandal that is beyond...; Tags: Business ethics, William Baker, Joe Scarlett, ethics, leadership; Blog posts 2008-04-23

Oregon's Ethics War: Name all of your adult relatives. On the record. Publicly. Would you be willing to do this to keep your job? If you want to be a public official in Oregon, these are the new requirements. And, so far, at least 150 of the state's 5,000 public...; Tags: Business ethics, William Baker, ethics, business interest; Blog posts 2008-04-29
Racist Remarks from a Client: Confront or Ignore?: A recent blog post over in BNET1 about how job candidate interviewees are flunking etiquette 101 - answering cell phones, bringing children along, using profanity - was, shall we say, humorously disturbing. But this bad behavior has a simple solution: don't hire the person. But poor etiquette...; Tags: William Baker; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Poll: Local Ethics in a Global Business World: Poll: Local Ethics in a Global Business WorldLocal EthicsI would recommend reading Jon M. Huntsman's book, "Winners Never Cheat: Everyday Values We Learned as Children (But May Have Forgotten). While doing business in a foreign country he was given the exact same ultimatum as discussed in this blog. He decided...; Tags: Business ethics, Local Ethics, ethics, Global Business World; Discussion threads 2008-05-01
Poll: Reporting Fudged Credentials?: Today's poll deals with something most everyone will face at some point in their career: whether to report a colleague after you come across some damaging information about their history. Your Dilemma: You have long wondered how one of your colleagues, whom you view as being less...; Tags: William Baker; Blog posts 2008-04-25
Poll: The Right Thing for the Wrong Reason?: The last two days have drawn some spirited comments and emails about the issue of whether buying a Toyota Prius as a status-symbol, rather than an eco-friendly mode of transport, is right or wrong. You can read about it here and here. I agree with the people...; Tags: E-mail, William Baker; Blog posts 2008-04-10
Siemens and the Ethics of Crime: Siemens and the Ethics of CrimeSiemens has historySuffice to say, siemens deserve what she gets and if tommorrow, siemens set contract killers on the consultants, they equally deserve it. What irks me however, is stereotyping people and a nation. Siemens has an history in Nigeria. Go confirm that.RE: Siemens and...; Tags: Business ethics, ethics, Siemens AG; Discussion threads 2008-04-03
Oregon's Ethics War: Oregon's Ethics WarAgreeI agree. Proper use of public funds is the heart of the issue.RE: Oregon's Ethics WarIt is possibly done to countermeasure lobbyists, those who use their power to benefit their relatives private business. And also track their holdings - to know if you use your power to their...; Tags: Business ethics, Ethics War, ethics, public official, cousin, relative; Discussion threads 2008-04-30
Poll: The Right Thing for the Wrong Reason?: Poll: The Right Thing for the Wrong Reason?Yes, but...Motives are hidden and results are transparent. Who determines (beyond an unseen force) what someone's true motive for doing something is? I'm not certain have been taught that altruism is good and selfishness is bad, in which case they are still seeking...; Tags: Business ethics, ethics, Toyota Prius; Discussion threads 2008-04-11
Building a Corporate Ethics Program: While regulatory change spurred new initiatives for some companies, it also reinforced the importance of ethics programs other companies already had in place. It's much better when ethics programs are integrated within the organization, within training and compliance, and in coordination with risk management. To bring in consultants to do...; Tags: Business ethics, Workforce management, Protiviti, ethics, consultant, training, risk management, compliance; White papers
Codes of Ethics: Some History: From accountants to zookeepers, professionals of all sorts seem to have a code of ethics these days. It was not always so. Until about 1800, ethics, especially professional ethics, was about character, honor and dishonor, virtue and vice. Ethics had nothing to do with formal codes of conduct. A true...; Tags: Business ethics, Policies and procedures, ethics, code of ethics; White papers
Put It In Writing: Your Business Has Ethics: Many small-business owners think a written code of ethics is an unnecessary, cosmetic step. Not only does a code of ethics put your business in a positive, proactive light, they say, but it just makes sense to specifically identify to customers and employees what behavior is appropriate and what's not....; Tags: Policies and procedures, Microsoft Corp., code of ethics, ethics, small business; White papers
Ten Leadership Characteristics: No organization can rise above the quality of its leadership. Because leadership is a position that must be earned day in and day out, there are important personal choices that both new and experienced leaders must make on a regular basis. Effective leaders are first and foremost effective people. Personal...; Tags: Business ethics, leadership, ethics, leader; White papers
Therapeutic Dose: For Business Ethics, Baxter Tries the Ripple Effect: The era of corporate scandal is ushering in the era of corporate ethics. Something is broken in the American and global companies, and, it is widely agreed, one needs to look more closely at the individual and collective corporate behavior. The paper highlights that Stewardship concerns led Baxter Healthcare to...; Tags: ethics, business ethics; White papers
Green Ethics: Yesterday, I wrote a post about how Toyota Prius buyers were accused of being liars because many bought their vehicle not for the hybrid's eco-friendliness, but because it announced their own eco-friendliness. And let me say again that I'll take a hybrid any way I can get it. If they...; Tags: William Baker, Toyota Prius, survey; Blog posts 2008-04-09
Siemens and the Ethics of Crime: Crime is, by it's very nature, almost wholly unethical. But doesn't crime have its own ethics? Or is there really no honor among thieves? I'm perplexed by the Siemens AG saga that is playing out over in Germany, where the engineering group allegedly payed millions to bribe...; Tags: Business ethics, William Baker, Siemens AG, ethics; Blog posts 2008-04-02