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/
A new next generation business model that aligns coaching and business with CSR is called Socially Responsible Consulting & Coaching (Philanthropreneuring). Billionaires pledge half their assets when they die. For the rest of us, why wait until you die: give experience, cash and support as well as levity to worthy enterprises while making a living.
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
Go here to view a documentary on integrity in business by Bill George.
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
A story that underscores why efficiency should never come at the expense of humanity.
“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.
We hear from two advisors with philosophy degrees who think deeply about the role and purpose of corporations in society.
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
Haidt, Jonathan, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (Pantheon; 2012) The full review, by David Nitkin at EthicScan, can be found in the Ethics in Integrity Webzine: At first glance a book on moral psychology would seem to be of limited interest to elected government officials, but first impressions