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- Such Is The Importance of Ethics
- When we're talking about establishing an ethical business culture, the small things matter. Yet, too often, we let the small things slide, we turn the other way, we don't make it our business. Here's a comment from a reader that addresses how the small things -- the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- The Ethics of Saying No
- Corporations do not make ethical mistakes. Individuals make ethical mistakes. Most of the time, that's because they're afraid of saying no. The reason so many people find it hard to say no is that it is hard to say no. A client says something inappropriate; a co-worker...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- GM's Lender/Borrower Double Standard?
- Are the folks at General Motors guilty of a double-standard, or hypocrisy, or possibly even an ethical breach, for the very different ways it's behaving as a lender and a borrower in the mortgage mess? They're at least guilty of not doing unto others as they would have done...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Performance-Enhancing Drugs at Work: An Ethics Poll
- Is the asterisk coming to the business world? The use of performance-enhancing drugs has clogged up the sports world for the last couple of years, but steroid and human growth hormone are not the only way to get a chemical advantage. What about the brain drugs, those...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- 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
- Top-Down Gravy
- Today is my birthday. I used to work for a newspaper that gave everyone the day off on their birthday. I know a lot of companies do this all of them should but this was the only company I've ever worked for that did this, and it is probably the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- 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
- 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
- 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
- "Greenwashing" Advertising
- You're watching TV. An ad comes on, one of the now ubiquitous "green ads" that promises something so eco-friendly that you're internal b.s. detector goes off. You momentarily consider Googling your way to the veracity of the claim when, boom, another green ad comes on, making another claim. They're everywhere....
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- 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
- 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
- Punishing the Unethical Employee
- Last week, I talked a lot about the idea of rewarding employees for ethical behavior. Some readers agreed with my contention that ethical behavior should be considered a standard of the job, and doesn't deserve an additional cookie. Others argued that rewarding ethical behavior sends a positive message to those...
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- 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
- Poll: Rewarding Ethical Behavior?
- On Tuesday, I mentioned a white paper that outlined six steps to an ethical business culture, and took issue with the fact that one of these steps involved rewarding employees who behaved ethically. But after mulling it over some more - and a comment from my BNet colleague Geoffrey James...
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- "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
- 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
- Video: Sin Stocks are Guilt-Free?
- Here's a little video from CNBC about investing in so-called Sin Stocks -- tobacco, gambling, alcohol and defense -- because they hold up well in a recession. There's a lot that can be said on this issue, either way, but I draw your attention to this clip...
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Retailers Withholding Figures from Investors?
- Monthly sales figures and annual profit forecasts have long been a staple of the information train that retailers supply to investors and Wall Street. But now many large companies - including Starbucks, Macy's, J.C. Penney and CVS - are backing off on one or both of these practices, arguing that...
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
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