156 Posts Found

Mere work ethic is not enough. The hardened criminal exhibits an excellent work ethic. What is needed is a work ethic conditioned by ethics in work.

Content: Quotation | Source: MBA Depot | Subjects: Ethics, Work

The person who consistently seeks to do what is “right” – not just expedient – will invariably be inspired with new ideas and useful insights.

Content: Quotation | Source: Quest for Prosperity: The Life of a Japanese Industrialist | Subjects: Ethics, Innovation

In thinking of the mind as a set of cognitive capacities, it helps to distinguish the ethical mind from the other four minds that we particularly need to cultivate if we are to thrive as individuals, as a community, and as the human race. The first of these, the disciplined mind, is what we gain through applying ourselves in a disciplined way in school. Over … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Ethics, Personality / Behavior

It’s important to clarify the distinction between the respectful and the ethical mind, because we assume that one who is respectful is ethical and vice versa. I think you can be respectful without understanding why. But ethical conceptions and behaviors demand a certain capacity to go beyond your own experience as an individual person.

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Ethics

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost. When character is lost, everything is lost.

Content: Quotation | Source: Sanskrit poem | Subjects: Character, Ethics

People raised in an environment where praise was carefully meted out typically do not try to challenge the rules; they follow them. When presented with a request that he thinks is unreasonable or unclear, the A player is most likely just to back down and try to comply rather than to question authority. That makes your superstar particularly dependent on powerful figures in situations that … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Ethics, Organizational Behavior

The state of ethics in America today is of grave concern to many people. Several members of the Graziadio faculty recently engaged in a hearty dialogue on ethics in America and about teaching ethics to students. Here is a compilation of some of their thoughts.

Content: Article | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subject: Ethics

The clash between principles and pragmatism is one of the hardest tests of a leader’s character. Of course we want our leaders to be both principled and pragmatic. Principles alone qualify men and women to be preachers or saints. Pure pragmatists can open their tool kits and get down to work, but their amorality makes them dangerous. As many leaders know, sometimes the worst conflict … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Ethics, Values

A fundamental question examined in the management arena is not only the factors that may lead people to make clearly illegal decisions, but more so the dilemma faced by individuals when confronted with legal but irresponsible or illegal but responsible behaviors. Under those conditions, what should one do? What will influence what behavior the manager chooses?

Content: Quotation | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subjects: Ethics, Legal

What type of employee becomes a whistleblower? What type of company culture promotes whistleblowers? How should the company respond once a whistleblower steps forward? Can a silent employee be just as damaging as an employee who speaks out? These are relevant questions with serious consequences in today’s business climate.

Content: Article | Author: Ariane David, Ph.D. | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subjects: Ethics, Management

When it comes to ethics in business, many accept that standards can not only be different from, but even lower than, ethics in everyday life. That should definitely not be so, argues this author. In fact, he says, a corporation’s obligations to its stakeholders bind it to those stakeholders, in turn creating new and specific moral obligations.

Content: Article | Author: Robert Phillips | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

That the terrain of decision making is mined with moral hazards has never been much in doubt. But the real question for executives is this: Just how can you make your conscience your guide? This author has suggestions and strong advice that, when taken, can help restore public confidence in business leaders.

Editor’s Note: discusses the author’s concept of teleopathy…

Content: Article | Author: Kenneth E. Goodpaster | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Ethics, Organizational Behavior

Subjective judgments do not become objective simply by translating them into numbers. More importantly, when some of the options under review require ethical considerations, we can cloud the difference between right and wrong when we translate all options into a quantitative order of dollar values. If you tell me that option A contains a moral impediment and option B is pristine, that is substantially different … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: The University of New Mexico | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

A review of previous evidence suggested that a substantial proportion of managers may be expected to bring serious harm to others in situations where they feel it is proper behavior for their role. Further evidence was provided by the Panalba role-playing study, where 79% of the groups selected a highly irresponsible decision and none chose the decision that was free of irresponsibility. These results were … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: J. Scott Armstrong | Source: Wharton | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Regulation is merely society’s way of saying that it does not approve of the way business is operating or, that by operating the way it is, business is ignoring what the society has set as objectives and goals for itself.

Content: Quotation | Source: Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies (EJBO) | Subjects: Ethics, Legal

Business “ethics,” should not be confused with business “morality.” Morality is the sum total of a particular society’s or organization’s current perceived traditions, beliefs, values, attitudes and norms that have been cultivated over time, institutionalized in religious doctrine, laws, regulations and codes of conduct which explicitly or implicitly suggest how an individual should behave in situations as they are encountered daily. Ethics may well … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Michael S. Poulton | Source: Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies (EJBO) | Subject: Ethics

Decades after Milton Friedman framed the debate over the social responsibility of business with an article in the New York Times Magazine, the discussion continues. Should businesses concentrate on achieving socially desirable outcomes? Can business be guided by the rule of law when governments are sometimes corrupt? How does operating globally affect a company’s behavior? These and other issues were the focus of one … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

There are some companies that say, Let’s do whatever it takes to meet the requirements of the law. There’s nothing wrong with that, but you have to recognize that the law, by definition, typically is made up of rules that have been made to address previous situations. It’s tough for it to anticipate future violations that might occur. Companies that invest in building an ethical … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Ethics, Legal

Law is spelled out by consensus in society: It is a minimum standard of conduct. But ethics is not a result of consensus, not something discerned by taking a poll. Ethics is the ideal; law is the minimum.

Content: Quotation | Source: Rochester Review | Subjects: Ethics, Legal

The suddenly hot topic of corporate governance is further deepened in this title, a collection of columns on business ethics first published in The New York Times. The broad categories tackled here include corporate ethics, policies, hiring, bosses, privacy, “lying, cheating, and stealing,” and leading by example. The strength in this collection is the real-word examples, bolstered by interviews with people involved in an issue … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Jeffrey Seglin | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)