What is right and what is wrong behavior in the business world takes on different meanings in different cultures, making it challenging to truly define business ethics in international markets.
Every decision we make, whether consciously or unconsciously, is informed by our ethical values, including those in business. While ethics has always been emphasized in the finance classes I’ve taken, ...
When managers are unethical, employees will emulate the bad behavior. Eventually, the unethical environment will hinder business. For example, if managers take credit for subordinates' work, some ...
A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2018 issue of strategy+business. How do you really get to know another person? More specifically, how do you know what type of employee that person ...
Originally published in NAVEX Global's Top 10 Ethics & Compliance Trends for 2019 eBook. Over the years, organizations have tried many different approaches to incentivize ethics with decidedly mixed ...
Gordon Marino writes disparagingly about the teaching of ethics (“Before Teaching Ethics, Stop Kidding Yourself,” The Review, February 20), and some of his points are valid. However, to state that ...
Ann Skeet is the Senior Director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center of Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Ethical leadership creates an environment where the goals and values of people ...
The scenario plays out countless times across hospital corridors: A medical student observes an attending physician dismissing a patient’s concerns, a resident falsifying documentation, or a colleague ...
The upcoming election has once again brought the subjects of ethics and ethical behavior. Examples in the northeast include the candidate who couldn't remember that his tour of military service was in ...