Archive for the ‘Ethics training’ Category

School ethics course is an opportunity to create peacemakers

March 26th, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Ethical Development, Ethics training

“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 change affects two of our most sensitive areas: our children and our beliefs. Some parents and schools took the government to court, but recently the Supreme Court of Canada pronounced that the new course “does not constitute indoctrination” and that there is no infringement on anyone’s religious rights or freedoms.”

Lessons From the Mississauga Judicial Inquiry

February 27th, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Ethical Development, Ethics training, Social Media

EthicScan President, and Integrity Officer Webzine publisher, David Nitkin offers his opinion on the implications of Justice Cunningham’s Inquiry in the alleged conflict of interest actions of Mayor Hazel McCallion. David reviews the Commission of Inquiry findings, assesses the municipal governance situation in Ontario, and suggests a number of political and technological changes needed to help restore confidence and public trust in municipal government. See http://ethicscan.ca/blog/integrity/

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Quebec students must take ethics-religion course

February 17th, 2012 by admin | 7 Comments | Filed in Ethics training

The title of this article says it all.

Are MBA Programs Are Failing in Ethics?

February 9th, 2012 by admin | 3 Comments | Filed in Business Ethics, Ethical Development, Ethics training

Business schools do a poor job of teaching students business ethics. Pro or con?
Read the debate by guest columnists Michael Beer and Mary Gentile and watch the video with Bloomberg Businessweek.com reporter Joel Stonington

Developing Mindful Leaders

December 31st, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Decision Making, Ethics training, Leadership

This article asks and answers the question” what if cultivating a successful inner life was front and center on the leadership agenda?”As they note ““Management education must be designed to create a heightened and enlightened ‘consciousness.Management training has traditionally focused on helping leaders develop a particular portfolio of cognitive skills: left-brain thinking, deductive reasoning, analytical problem solving, and solutions engineering. Tomorrow’s managers will require new skills, among them reflective or double-loop learning, systems-based thinking, creative problem solving, and values-driven thinking. Business schools and companies must redesign training programs to help executives develop such skills and reorient management systems to encourage their application.”

So how would we recognize mindful leaders from an ethics perspective?

Consequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics. By Charles Goodman. Oxford;

September 30th, 2011 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in Business Ethics, Ethical Development, Ethics training

In the workplace and in our daily relationships with friends,family and others, are we placing enough attention on compassion?Charles Goodman provides the lens to the discussion from a Buddhist perspective.

Stop Sponsoring Hatred

May 5th, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in CSR, Democracy, Ethics training

Do (or should) you bring workplace values to your private life? Does free speech extend to demonization and factual lies?

EthicScan Canada has been a major consultant and trainer on ethical partnering and organizational due diligence for two decades. Two of its associates have become active in a campaign to bring social responsibility assurance to a Canadian bank. The issue is the refusal by the Toronto-Dominion’s Bank, which has significantly funded Gay Pride Parade for a few years (it is the major private sector funder),  to publicly state its opposition to the calumy that is Israel-Apartheid — a group called Queers Against Israel-Apartheid (QuAIA) has perverted the positive-vibration and inclusive character of the Toronto Parade in each of the last two years– and to ensure that Gay Pride Parade organizers agree in advance to do everything possible to prevent such hate speech participation in organized Gay Pride activities. The two associates (acting as individuals) say it is time, through organized community-based activities (such as e-mails, demonstrations, advocacy, and withdrawing funds), to put a stake through the heart of Israel Apartheid– which is nothing but demonization of a country based on lies, and has nothing at all to do with gay pride or same sex advocacy, which these two organizers support. The federal government and the City of Toronto have recently acted– bringing governance and responsibility assurance conditions to sponsoring the annual event– but the Toronto-Dominion Bank has not.

For more information, see <http://stopsponsoringhatred.com>. Your thoughts?

Where Did You Learn Ethics?

November 30th, 2010 by NSteinberg | No Comments | Filed in Ethical Development, Ethics training

I never had formal ethics training in the public or private schools I  attended as a child..More and more, governments are proposing to introduce formal ethics training into their public school systems.This is a controversial step as this article shows and raises some critical issues for debate.Early  this year the Quebec Provincial Government went to the Supreme Court to prevent members of a religious organization the right to opt out of  the teaching of ethics in its school systems.