The Moral Brain conference at New York University, is largely devoted to a review of the last ten years of research on the neuroscience of moral sentiments and decision-making, with talks by Paul Bloom among others. See a summary of the conference.
According to Nick Morgan,global thought leader on presentations and communication: Authenticity is hard because it is hard to be open and honest about ourselves, warts and all. Authenticity is hard because sometimes we want to hide our own less-than-perfect traits from ourselves. Authenticity is hard because other people may seize on our weaknesses as proof
According to the Globe and Mail,”The company’s status makes the murky affair they reported this week a black eye for Canadian business. Worse, the questions it raises – about whether money made it to the hands of a foreign official – underlines a weakness. Canada has a poor reputation for tackling bribery.”
“Both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Industry Minister Christian Paradis have chosen to characterize the finding that the cabinet minister broke conflict of interest rules as a teaching moment”which according to the journalist who wrote this article“…raises the question of whether a federal cabinet minister should be expected to understand ethical issues such as conflict
“In 2008, the Quebec Ministry of Education introduced an ethics and religious culture program to replace the moral and religious education curriculum that had been taught previously. The new course covers all major faiths found in Quebec culture, including the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish faiths, and aboriginal world views. Predictably, some people were upset. This
A good friend of EthicScan Donna Boehme has wriiten a review of the program.As she notes”Now that the SEC has logged at least seven full months of the Dodd Frank whistleblower program, it’s worth taking a moment for a brief status check on what we have learned so far. To do that we might consider
“So today we announce a nationwide contest for the omnivorous readers of The New York Times. We invite you to make the strongest possible case for this most basic of daily practices. We have assembled a veritable murderer’s row of judges — some of the most influential thinkers to question or condemn the eating of
“The penalties handed out by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to the coaches and executives of the New Orleans Saints organization for the bounty program practiced down on the bayou were perhaps the stiffest in the history of the game.If only those on Wall Street and in Washington overseeing our financial markets had the same principles.”From
As Bradley J. Ruffle an associate professor of economics at Ben-Gurion University in Israel writes on the HBR Business Blog”You’d certainly stand out from the crowd, and with personal boundaries getting fuzzier and everyone’s pictures on Facebook anyway, what’s the harm of showing an employer what you look like? The truth is, you could be
Chris MacDonald is hosting a Twitter chat on March 27, at 1 pm EDT on behalf of EPAC. He hopes this will be the first in a series of such chats. Participation is open. The topic: “Fostering a ‘culture of ethics’ within organizations: tips and challenges.” The recent letter by former Goldman Sachs employee Greg