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
EthicScan, Canada’s oldest and largest corporate responsibility research and ethics consultancy, announces its extensive education program for next year. 14 faculty members, 15 courses, 10 webinars, and 4 learning circles on topics like complaint investigation, ethical partnering, end of life decision-making, managing sustainability, and corporate reporting. Most programs in Canada and the U.K. http://ethicscan.ca/events/
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
Slammed in 2011 by Transparency International (TI) for having “little or no enforcement,” Canada’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has stepped up its enforcement of the country’s anti-bribery laws, with 35 active investigations and several successful prosecutions now under their belt. Canadian businesses are taking note. In the opinion of CS Newsflash (April 12), peer
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
A code of professional conduct outlines the acceptable or desirable behaviours and practices of a particular profession such as doctors, pharmacists, lawyers, and ethicists. Many corporations and whole industries use these codes as a replacement for a code of ethics. Unfortunately, codes of professional conduct do not cover enough areas to warrant calling them full
Go here to view a documentary on integrity in business by Bill George.
In her article today on the need for better ethics education in business schools, Juliana Davies taps into morality issues that have long been a mainstay of EthicScan Blog posts in the past. Juliana is a business writer whose work appears on a website devoted to proliferating the best online mba programs of 2012
This is a sobering article in American Banker (August 23, 2012) commenting on significant recent survey results (N=2,000) about the lack of ethical monitoring by executives and Boards in the financial services sector, based on a survey of 250 interviews in each of the U.S. and the U.K. Monitoring and oversight practices have declined substantially between