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/
In the last decade, 2013 vs 2003, there have been sharp changes in public attitudes in the U.S. to extra-marital sex, same sex relationships, and babies outside marriage, all of which should caution us to distinguish ethics from culturally-changing morality. For Gallup survey data, see http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/2013/05/20/moral-issues-3/
EthicScan associate Jane Garthson is preparing a Resources Library for public service and private sector social marketing professionals in Canada on successful experiences with partnerships, sponsorships, alliances and other collaboration strategies. The community of practice suffers from an absence of updated federal and provincial government corporate policies in this area. If you have experiences,
The last decade has been a one of soul-searching for business schools worldwide. Since the collapse of Enron, through the financial crisis, to the insider trading and LIBOR scandals, the question just keeps recurring: How did those institutions of higher learning, whose claim is to develop business leaders, influence the conduct of leaders who
In a meeting with the Deans of Admission of several Universities and Schools The Dalai Lama was asked about his philosophy of education. He replied that every sentient being, beings who have experience of pleasure or pain, has a desire to live a happy life. Human beings have a brain that allows them to
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
“There’s a powerful link between productivity and what has been identified as “compassionate leadership” in organisations, observes Christina Boedker, a lecturer in accounting at the Australian School of Business and leader of a major business research study that looks at the links between leadership and organisational performance.”Read more.
“Previous research suggests that children develop an increasing concern with fairness over the course of development. Research with adults suggests that the concern with fairness has at least two distinct components: a desire to be fair but also a desire to signal to others that they are fair. We explore whether children’s developing concern with
We hear from two advisors with philosophy degrees who think deeply about the role and purpose of corporations in society.
“The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity and its exclusive corporate sponsor, LRN, have announced that Sarah Ransohoff, University of North Carolina, Class of 2012, is the first place winner of the 2012 Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics essay contest. The Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics is an annual competition that challenges college students in the