Ethical issues are common in health care because the stakes are high and values regularly come into conflict when decisions must be made. Differentiation between minimizing harm, doing no harm, and doing good often needs to be assessed. In the course of provision of these health care services, problems or disagreements will occasionally arise with respect
Current factory inspections programs are flawed, with deliberate mis-labelling and corruption in factories in China, resulting in shoddy and unsafe products on shelves of retailers like WalMart, says a New York Times investigation story. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/business/global/superficial-visits-and-trickery-undermine-foreign-factory-inspections.html?pagewanted=all
A new next generation business model that aligns coaching and business with CSR is called Socially Responsible Consulting & Coaching (Philanthropreneuring). Billionaires pledge half their assets when they die. For the rest of us, why wait until you die: give experience, cash and support as well as levity to worthy enterprises while making a living.
CalPERS – the largest public pension fund in the US – and its academic partners have launched a searchable database of more than 700 academic studies on sustainability factors that examine the impact of these factors. http://www.calpers.ca.gov/index.jsp?bc=/about/press/pr-2013/june/responsible-investment.xml
CSR falls short in practice because it is still often a staff, not line, responsibility. As such there is over-emphasis on PR and the sponsorship of good deeds and an under-emphasis on issues integral to the business itself. There is also too much of a focus on compliance sign-offs on shiny codes of conduct and
This is a call call for papers for the Robin Cosgrove Prize for Ethics in finance 2012-2013 edition is open until May 31, 2013 (www.robincosgroveprize.org). Candidates should be young people aged 35 or less interested in innovative ideas for ethics in finance. The closing date for submission of papers setting out Innovative Ideas for
In a meeting with the Deans of Admission of several Universities and Schools The Dalai Lama was asked about his philosophy of education. He replied that every sentient being, beings who have experience of pleasure or pain, has a desire to live a happy life. Human beings have a brain that allows them to