An interesting dialogue has emerged on the Corporate Responsibility Officers Association Blog site on LinkedIn. Here is my (David Nitkin’s) latest posting to that site: Ethicists continually try to ensure that organizations and their stakeholders do the right thing. The idea I’ve spoken of here is that industry associations, regulators, social responsibility reporters, social responsibility
Ever wonder why those who seem to have it all, act like they want to lose it all? Blogging in the Harvard Business Review, Richard Davis explores the psychology of individual corruption and asks where it resides. He pursues what goes on in the mind of the unethical executive including the recent demise
” Moral distress is when you can see the best path through a situation, but the institution won’t permit it.” Joan Halifax .
Watch this video from the Harvard Business Review
A contribution to the debate about whether the focus should be on individual vs. organization ethics and the and the distinction between individual and organizational integrity by the Corporate Compliance Insights folks.
“Whenever it comes up plagiarism is a hot button topic and essays about it tend to be philosophically and morally inflated. But there are really only two points to make. (1) Plagiarism is a learned sin. (2) Plagiarism is not a philosophical issue.” Stanley Fish
William Seltzer of Fordham University addresses whether ethics have a role in official statistics taking,and what those challenges and resolution may be.
“HP CEO Mark Hurd, resigned abruptly Friday after a company inquiry into allegations of sexual harassment. Hewlett-Packard is vulnerable in two areas, corporate ethics experts say, which the scandal has now more fully exposed: 1) Mr. Hurd’s combined role as CEO and chairman leaves an especially large void in the leadership at a sensitive time
Here is a wonderful post by Tim Bonnemann, founder of Intellitics ,on the ethics of public participation: “It seems the topic of ethics and integrity in public participation is coming up more often these days (see my comments here, here). Just for the record, these are the rules by which we at Intellitics abide. First,
From our friends at Lexology we learn that the new US Financial Reform Bill contains whistleblower provisions that could change how corporations identify potential wrongdoing, interact with their employees and decide whether to report potential violations to the government.