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Candour and Trust

September 6th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Business Ethics, Decision Making, Organizational Ethics, Public Sector/Government

Trust is understood as the sin qua non  in the relationship between the political and civil service communities in Canada and according to an article appearing in the  the Ottawa Citizen there is much work to be done. The current loss of trust is costing Canada billions.

The Christian Science Monitor also considers the issue of candour and corporate behaviour .

I am beginning to think that we have not made much progress on this issue in spite of all our efforts to consider the  values and ethics dimensions of our decisions.

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Why and How the Millennial Generation Is the Most Pro-Government Generation and What This Means for Our Future

July 29th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Public Sector/Government

The Center for American Progress (CAP) found that millennials, defined as Americans between the ages of 18 and 32, have far greater faith in and expectations of government than their older compatriots. This proved true regardless of political affiliation or ideological bent

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OECD Working Group on Foreign Bribery has issued a Good Practice Guidance relating to anti-bribery.

June 12th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Codes, Corruption, Organizational Ethics, Public Sector/Government

My friend Donna Boehme is looking for feedback. She wrote to me as follows:

“You have probably seen the news that the OECD Working Group on Foreign Bribery has issued a Good Practice Guidance relating to anti-bribery compliance programs. Joe Murphy and I have been participating in this process, and Joe represented SCCE in the Working Group’s programs as a Consultative Partner; we both attended the Dec 9 launch of the GPG by OECD in Paris. We believe this standard actually offers a very useful template for all types of compliance and ethics programs. It has the enormous advantage of being the first truly international standard, since it has been signed off on by the 30 OECD countries plus 8 other signatories to the anti-bribery convention. In a sense it is the “global sentencing guidelines” in terms of its potential impact globally. I have attached our comment draft, which we are circulating broadly for review and comment, including to the OECD and US Sentencing Commission. I’d be interested in any thoughts/input on the draft. Please also feel free to share it with anyone you think might share the interest. We think this OECD Guidance has tremendous potential to expand what was started by the US Sentencing Commission further onto the global stage.

Cheers, Donna

[email protected]”

Document is here:

http://www.slideshare.net/secret/fRbbfO2VaEPgyN

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Ethics Cannot be Taught

June 7th, 2010 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in Codes, Public Sector/Government

In today’s Toronto Sun, Peter Worthington concludes that  ethics cannot be taught.Commenting on Justice Oliphant’s recommendations that public servants (and MPs) get better ethics training,Worthington notes that” a case can be made that “ethics” are something that you either have, or you don’t have… All the training, teaching, studying, reading, or lectures in “ethics” will not make a person more ethical if he or she does not have these core values to begin with.”

This used to be one of those black and white issues for me. Of course you can teach people to be ethical.Now I am am not sure Is it true that without an established set of  core values as a foundation,any ethical constructions that are built will not be long lasting?

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