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- a system of moral principles applied in the commercial world. Business ethics provide guidelines for acceptable behavior by organizations in both their strategy formulation and...
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- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Ethical Decisions: For Leadership Only?
- Monster.com, the Internet job-listing giant, has a quiz on its site called "Test Your Business Ethics." The quiz is aimed at entry-level employees who are new to business and presents five ethical dilemmas, each with three possible courses of action. What's interesting is that the correct answer for three of...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- "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...
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Six Steps to an Ethical Business Culture
- A recent white paper from Allegiance, a company which provides what they call Enterprise Feedback Management, attempts to outline a plan for creating an ethical business culture in six steps: Establish an enforceable code of conduct. Initial and ongoing training. Regular communications. Anonymous reporting...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Coach Fights Phony Bags with a Phony Person?
- Have you heard the one about how Coach gave money to a public relations class at Hunter College so that the kids could learn about how bad counterfeit goods are, and then allegedly condoned the kids using that money to create a phony advertising campaign featuring a phony student who...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Poll: CEO Payouts in a Bad Year?
- The news is filled with stories of CEOs receiving huge payouts. The news is also filled with stories of companies performing poorly in the fragile economy. When you add the two together, the sum often equals bad P.R. for the CEO. But is this wrong? Should a...
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Hybrid Buyers are Liars?
- A Reuters article today, which you can read on BNET, detailed how Detroit automakers are now trying to copy the "Green Halo" cache of the Toyota Prius hybrid. Now Detroit has been making hybrids for years, but they differ from the Prius because they almost always look exactly like the...
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Mozilla CEO Bites Apple
- John Lilly, the CEO of open-source giant Mozilla, has called Apple's ethics into question. He claims Apple is sneaking its Safari browser onto PCs by tucking it into a software update for iTunes and Quicktime (when you go to update the two, a box to also download the new Safari...
- Blog posts 2008-03-22
- NCAA Pools and Your Office
- Today's poll looks at March Madness, that time of the year when the nation turns its eyes to college basketball for three long weekends on the way to the NCAA title. And with that comes the inevitable office pool. In comparison to other sports-related office-productivity threats, the...
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- Web-Tracking Vs. Privacy
- The New York Times ran a front-page story today about how companies are collecting massive amounts of data about what people search for on the Internet, and the pages they visit, so they can target them with specific advertisements. Yahoo alone is collecting data more than 2,500 times per month...
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Yahoo's China Mess
- Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has asked Condoleeza Rice to intervene and help free Chinese dissidents who were jailed for using the Internet to share information about life in China after Yahoo provided the Chinese government with evidence from their Yahoo accounts. It is an about-face for Yahoo, which first justified...
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
Additional Resources
- Googled, With Caller ID?
- Some websites now offer "visitor tracking" to let you know when your name has been Googled and, with some less-than Encyclopedia Brown-type snooping, essentially figure out who is doing the Googling (they can't tell you who is checking you out, but can pinpoint their location and the time the information...
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
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