Some images (c) 2001-2004 www.arttoday.com.

[Articles] [Links to Other Articles] [Links to Other Sites]

• Motivating Future Success
  By Barry Maher
  Few things build credibility like doing what's best for someone else rather than grabbing something that appears to be in your own short-term interest. The only thing that could ever stop me from doing business with the mechanic who told me all I needed was a $7 part when I took the car to him for a new transmission was his retirement.

• The Spiritual Power of Corporate Brands
  Excerpt from Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism, By Patricia Aburdene:
  If values are the hallmark of enlightened capitalism, how do the companies that espouse them broadcast their virtues and beckon discriminating consumers to the cash register? Often, it is through the power of brand—that precious, yet intangible asset that symbolizes what a corporation stands for.

• Pressure As a Factor in Unethical Corporate Behavior
  -from research by American Management Association and Human Resource Institute
  Pressure from management or the Board to meet unrealistic business objectives and deadlines is the leading factor most likely to cause unethical corporate behavior, according to a new survey on business ethics.

• Can a Website Change the World?
  Shel Horowitz launches Business-Ethics-Pledge.Org to Make Corporate Corruption as Unthinkable as Slavery. 
  A new campaign to abolish corporate corruption uses the Internet to leverage massive social change.

• 10 Symptoms of Workplace Stress by Dale Collie Control of workplace stress is a leadership responsibility. Good leaders who recognize the symptoms of stress can control situations to create more desirable workplaces and to improve both productivity and the bottom line.

• Expensive Workplace Stress by Dale Collie Workplace stress can cut productivity and cost your company thousands of dollars annually. Discover the top ten workplace stressors.

• Paralysed by Wayne Visser A poem about effects of layoffs.

• The Shoemaker and the Brat by Patricia Gatto Choose your battles wisely and always deliver them with respect....Our responses to a difficult situation show our true character. Acceptance, forgiveness and understanding are key elements to a healthy outlook on life.

• Five Corporate Sustainability Challenges That Remain Unmet by Wayne Visser Business is doing far more than ever before to tackle the sustainability challenge.... [but] all of this activity has failed to turn the tide on some of the most crucial dimensions of sustainable development: ecological decline, poverty, greed, trust, and hope. Without significant progress on these five issues, the corporate sustainability crusade is doomed. [This article presents] evidence of these gaps that still exist and proposes the shifts that are needed to address them.

• The Hasidic Masters' Guide to Management The Hasidic Masters valued sincerity and devotion and provided inspiration and guidance to their adherents. Today's managers, seeking to provide inspirational leadership, clear direction, business vision, and organizational guidance to their teams, have much to learn from these wise leaders.

• Responsible Leadership: Base Your Leadership on Spiritual Roots Any company that successfully integrates performance and responsibility will thrive. When leadership is firmly grounded in spiritual principles, business skills are applied with excellence, and people strive to apply high values to its products, its communications, and internal management practices – then the brands of that company take on an allure to anyone interested in high integrity.

• Leading with Spirit: Today’s Spiritual CEO’s Now more than ever, there is clearly a need to balance the “business” of leadership with the  “spirituality” of leadership.  While many speak in terms of “ethical”, “moral” or “principled” leadership, what is really meant is a spiritual leadership that goes beyond some minimum ethical standards of the day.

• Mercenary Darwinism Huge signing bonuses have become an easy way out for employers who don't have the courage or the leadership to change their business practices. The bonuses give the illusion that recruiting and retention are getting easier. The problem is that every time someone "wins" a new recruit, someone else loses.

• Commercializing God Pulpit decorations by Publishers Clearinghouse. Today's sermon is brought to you by Al's Body Shop-"no matter how bad you're wrecked, we'll make you whole again."...We admit this does seem somewhat ridiculous. Or does it?

• Temptations, White Lies, Sales and Seeing Eye Dogs How many half-truths or white lies would you tell to get the sale and the job? I hope your answer is "None." But, the truth is, not everyone is that honest.

• Four Ways To Prevent Yourself From "Enroning" Your Small Business As a business owner or manager, you’ve watched the news on Enron the past few months and sat in amazement at how such a company could have made such a mess of itself. Enron has gone from being the Prince of Wall Street to the Court Jester.... It’s not possible that your small business could get "Enroned." Or is it?

• Business Ethics???
  By Mark Borkowski. October 11, 2006
  An example of a pretty fundamental concept that separates the ethical from the unethical is seeing the latter thinking "I'm a mover and a shaker" while the former never forget something as mundane as "We make blenders that people use in their homes."
  ...Society demands high standards from such professionals as accountants, lawyers, engineers and doctors, yet we allow business executives the almost unfettered freedom to make personal fortunes and privileges without holding them to personal account for their behavior It is the right time to demand the forming of a business executives governing organization to perform the same functions.

• Watchdog Criticizes Tech Firms for Cooperating with Chinese Censors
  Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo have insisted that they must comply with local law, but also say in many cases they are becoming more transparent
  With about 123 million people online, China has the world's second largest number of Internet users after the United States, noted a report from the International Herald Tribune.

• U.S. Federal Prosecutors Target Backdated Stock Options
  Press reports say companies are taking notice; backdating is a common practice used to recruit employees, and while it is not illegal in and of itself, prosecutors contend that hiding the process and profit definitely is.

• The 100 Worst Corporate Citizens
  By Phil Mattera, Corporate Research Project. July 1, 2006
  For the past 52 years, Fortune magazine has been publishing a list of the largest U.S. corporations.... For the past seven years, Business Ethics magazine has issued another kind of ranking -- a list of what it calls the "100 Best Corporate Citizens" -- that promotes virtue over size in the perennial game of corporate comparisons....Some of the firms may have done laudable things, but the list is riddled with companies that have significant blemishes on their record when it comes to environmental matters, labor practices or treatment of customers.

• Business schools tackle ethics issues
  By GREG BURNS and JODI S. COHEN
  Chicago Tribune.
  June 25, 2006
  Asked if ethics can be taught, "My answer is usually, No," said Jeffrey Seglin, an Emerson College ethics professor who writes a syndicated column on the topic. "I don't think you can teach right and wrong. You can help people with ideas about how to make critical decisions." Some say formal training programs can marginalize ethics, by separating the topic from relevant day-to-day conduct. And courses that focus on debating unresolvable ethical dilemmas could encourage the notion that almost any action can be justified. Most ethicists, however, still side with Greek philosopher Socrates, who concluded 2,500 years ago that people can be taught to do right.

• The Top 10 Ethics Stories of 2005
  By Ethics Newsline editor Carl Hausman
  When business executives are jailed for looting their firms, the ethical issue involved is fairly straightforward. But in other top ethics stories, such as those dealing with anti-terrorism legislation, the dilemma involves the delicate balance of competing "right" values -- for example, protection of the individual versus protection of society.

• Birth of the Ethics Industry
  By James C. Hyatt  Corporations are rushing to learn ethics virtually overnight, and as they do so, a vast new industry of consultants and suppliers has emerged. The ethics industry has been born.

• Ethics in Danger, the Road Well Paved with Good Intentions More than 3,000 people participated in the 2005 National Business Ethics Survey (NBES). 69% of employees said that their organizations have Ethics training, and yet 52% of respondents observed discrimination, stealing or sexual harassment. 21% of respondents observed abusive or intimidating behavior, and 19% witnessed lying to customers, vendors, employees or the public.

• Open Doors, Closed Minds: How one Wal-Mart true believer was excommunicated for his faith in doing what he thought the company expected of him: crying foul. By Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect, Online Edition, November 7, 2005 In 2002 the company sent Lynn to Central America, in a new position in which he was to report on any abusive labor practices he came upon in the factories that make the clothes Wal-Mart puts on its shelves. Lynn was shocked: He discovered factories whose fire doors were padlocked from the outside, and where women workers were fired if they turned up pregnant. Lynn firmly believed that his reports to the home office would lead to improvements. Indeed, he believed he was doing just what the company expected of him, right up to the moment when he was fired.

• Trend-watcher sees moral transformation of capitalism by Jane Lampman, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor "We've now become conscious of the uncalculated social, economic, and environmental costs of ... of 'unconscious' capitalism. And many are beginning to practice a form of 'conscious capitalism,' which involves integrity and higher standards, and in which companies are responsible not just to shareholders, but also to employees, consumers, suppliers, and communities. Some call it 'stakeholder capitalism.'" -- Patricia Aburdene

• Finding an Ethical Employer: Five Questions to Ask in a Job Interview

  by Rushworth M. KidderSome of the students I talked to last week at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University wonder how they can distinguish ethical companies from unethical ones.... In a job interview, what questions can they ask that will reveal the inner workings of a company's ethics. Here are five, in rising order of complexity (let's assume you're interviewing with a firm that has a code of ethics, an ethics office, and a significant international presence).

• Ill-gotten gains What should you do when you discover that a long-time friend is engaged in a business that you consider highly unethical, though legal?

• What case for the business case?A conference panel in London tried to take on the "business case" for corporate responsibility debate.

• Character counts: Business ethics myth By Michael Josephson.June 7, 2005. Ventura County Star The theory that expediency, not ethics, should control decision-making in business flourishes because many people compartmentalize their lives into personal and business domains, choosing to believe that each domain is governed by different moral standards. As a result, good people who would never lie, cheat or break a promise in their personal lives, delude themselves into thinking that they can do so in business.

• Is goodness good for business? By Chris Lewis. June 7, 2005. swissinfo.org. In Switzerland, as elsewhere, it would be hard to find a company that admits to maximising profit by immoral or illegitimate means. But some companies pay little more than lip service to ethical practices – and economists may sometimes overestimate the ability of market forces to sort out the good, the bad and the ugly.

• The corporations strike backCommentary by David R. Francis. June 6, 2005. The Christian Science Monitor Three high-profile groups - the US Chamber of Commerce (with 3 million member firms), the Business Roundtable (chief executives of about 160 major American companies are members), and the Financial Services Roundtable (representing CEOs of 100 of the nation's largest banks and other financial firms) - reckon compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is too expensive and time-consuming.

• Businesses in Trouble with God? These warning signs indicate that you as a leader, or your company might be in trouble with God.

• Workers in Trouble with God? These warning signs indicate that you as a worker might not be honoring God. 

• Studies show CEO pay continues upward spiral, often amid poor performanceTwo recent studies show that despite tough corporate reforms and pressure from shareholder groups, compensation for chief executives is rising, even among companies whose revenues are not.... “The disconnect between pay and performance keeps getting worse,” a senior investment officer at Calpers, the California pension fund, recently told the New York Times.

• A Starter Kit for Business Ethics Corporate cheating won't be stopped by regulation or legislation. That's why whistle-blowing is everybody's job. By Shoshana Zuboff. FastCompany, January 2005.Next time you're poised to participate in a wrong that's cloaked as normal, ask yourself how you'd explain this to your children (even if you don't have any yet). If that doesn't appeal to you, then try what one of my friends advocates. He imagines a front-page New York Times article that chronicles his actions. If it makes him uncomfortable, he knows he's on the wrong path.

• Corporate ‘idiots’ By Michael McCord. Jan 22, 2005 Seacoastonline.com.  One wonders what Kozlowski of Tyco, Ebbers of WorldCom and Lay of Enron think about business ethics. The three will all face a jury of their peers [this year] who could possibly not take kindly to either their alleged crimes nor their so-called "idiot" defenses. Definition digression - the "idiot" defense, as I understand it, depends on the assumption that great corporate chiefs lead the company to greatness, become a CEO hero in the press but passively become clueless to the inner workings of their company. In other words, let someone else take the blame.

• Workplace Ethics 101 Dec 8, 2004 Ethics: A set of principles of right conduct; a theory or a system of moral values.- Canadian Dictionary Every day, people are faced with moral dilemmas at work. Now, here's a chance to put your two cents into the ethical pot.

• Researchers say the state of business ethics is gloomyThe researchers measured corporate valuation, board governance, leadership and corporate culture, compensation, competitive practices, accountancy and regulation. In 2003, they found what they call a systemic breakdown of business ethics: overpaid chief executives running roughshod over their governing boards, finance executives grossly overvaluing company value to meet Wall Street’s high quarterly expectations, and a nearly total breakdown of consumer and shareholder trust. A year later....

• The Insiders by Patricia Barry. Nov 2004. AARP. Speaking more in sorrow than in anger, all three paint a picture of a once-admired industry that has lost its ethical way, more concerned to protect its bottom line than patients' health....With a wife and two young sons to support, "I didn't want to lose my job," he recalls, "but I also felt an obligation to do what is morally right."... Doctors were paid $250 to $2, 500 to promote Vioxx at 'roundatbale' discussions or larger dinner meetings.

• There’s management and then there’s leadershipBy Mark Goyder Oct 24, 2004. Management is about getting the best out of existing resources, under given constraints, whereas leadership is about moving beyond constraints and redefining what success means, writes Mark Goyder. The demand for a “business case” has long troubled me for at least five reasons....

• The great company contribution People want more autonomy, they want to know they can develop their talents, and they care about how the company treats them and others. In great companies, relationships are more equal than they were in the old days. Leaders are part of the team. They forego the special perks of position and recognise that their job is to serve those who work on the front line. And as a result, people do stretch and know their capability. Talent is nurtured, grown and valued.

• Lessons a Philosopher Can Teach a Capitalist Robert C. Solomon. Austin American-Statesman, September 28, 2004We are a business society. For better or (more likely) for worse, corporations rule much of our lives. Many of the people who are in charge, those who could make a difference and set an example for everyone else, are those who work for or work on the behalf of our corporations....But corporations function according to a simple-minded and (one could argue) pathological philosophy: the single-minded pursuit of profits. Not included: personal and family values, religion and spiritual values, love and friendship, a sense of community, a sense of patriotism, local loyalty, a sense of non-contractual obligation to employees, managers, customers, vendors, and the environment.

• MARKETING AND MORALITY - BREAKING THE BARRIER The world of marketing instantly conjures up images of half-truths and over-the-top imagery. It is one of those professions where the more one seems to tell the truth, the further away one is from it. Three real examples of marketing techniques illustrate this.

• How Broken Is White-Collar Justice? By Mike France. Commentary. Apr 2, 2004 It seems bad when you first consider what's going on in Tyco, Enron, and other big cases. A closer look finds a system that works

• What would you do? USA Weekend.com. March 21, 2004Shady activities aren't confined to the pros. We asked ethicist David Batstone to judge three hypothetical cases that may hit close to your home.

• WORKPLACE ETHICS 101 Mar 10, 2004. The Globe and Mail. Ethics: A set of principles of right conduct; a theory or a system of moral values. This week's question. Last week's question and answers.

• Women who veer too far from soft images get harsh treatment BY ROSABETH MOSS KANTER. The Miami Herald. Mar 10, 2004The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction....While this saga will be fodder for business-ethics classes for years to come, I am concerned about another, more-subtle story line: that women are more easily accused of the social ''crime'' of over-reaching. The Stewart epic threatens to be a warning that women should avoid ambition.

• Greenwich, Conn., Business Ethics Series Says Faith Has Role in Workplace By J. Clyde Wills, The Stamford Advocate, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. Mar 7, 2004What are your resign lines? What lines will you not cross? Where are your no-go zones? asked David Miller, executive director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture, assistant professor of business ethics at Yale, and teacher of a class at Yale Divinity School called "Business Ethics: Succeeding Without Selling Your Soul."

• A Paradox in Vision by Marguerite Rose Chabau, Ph.D.What is your/our vision? What are the values that will create that vision? What are the characteristics that will bring that vision into action? Through these answers, we bring ourselves into balance and, more importantly, maintain our balance as we embrace the shift that develops the leaders of tomorrow.

• A Cultural Critic Becomes Friendship's Best Friend By Claudia H. Deutsch. NY Times. May 18.A company whose board is run by the chief executive's best friend is probably better managed, Dr. Digby Anderson Anderson said, "because only a friend will tell you that you're going down the wrong path."

• Complaining Is a Duty, Not Just a Right By Jeffrey L. Seglin. NY Times. May 18.Do companies have an ethical responsibility for the behavior of the independent companies they use to do their bidding? ...at a time when some chief executives seem to have trouble comprehending the impact of even their own company's actions on a customer's perception, is it reasonable to assume that they'll take responsibility? ...Nowhere is this clearer than when global companies are caught using independent manufacturers in foreign countries that have inhumane working conditions....

• A Board's Top Job: Watching the CEO The real measure of corporate-governance programs' success is how well the board discharges its responsibilities supervising the CEO.

• Ethics as Best Practice: Northwest Public Utility Says Ethical Leadership Helps It Achieve Peak Performance Press release from: Center for Ethical Leadership. 03/26/2003A collaborative approach based on core values is a striking contrast to the approach taken by many companies to concerns about corporate ethics or cultural change. Many programs take a compliance-oriented approach that focuses on ethics policies and scenario-based instructional methods....."Our mission was to build a program that focused on recognizing core values and respect for others. The concept of gracious space has been a good fit for SPU's program and has been embraced by our workforce. In participant feedback, it consistently receives the highest marks as something that most resonated with people."

• “Leading in Turbulent Times” By C. William Pollard, Chairman Emeritus, The ServiceMaster Company. Keynote Address at Baylor University's Conference on Integrity in Financial Reporting.Can we legislate integrity? Can leadership make a difference – leadership, whether in government or business, that practices right behavior – leadership that is transparent and open in its conduct and disclosures?

• Book Suggestions: A Compilation of Books About Christian Faith and Business Compiled by Dr. Shirley Roels, Dean of Academic Administration, Calvin College, June 2001, and modified by The Avodah Institute.

• The Cult of the Charismatic CEO By Craig LambertThe trend toward charisma may have started when "the idea took root that if a firm was doing poorly or well, it was because of the CEO.... The image of a CEO changed from being a capable administrator to a leader—a motivating, flamboyant leader with a new task. In the late 1980s and early '90s, business tried to redefine itself; it was no longer about the profane task of making money, but concerned with vision, values, mission—essentially religious terms."

• The Profit of God: Finding the Christian path in business By Jeff Van Duzer and Tim Dearborn Jan 2003. Historically, Christian thinking about business has swung between the two extremes of warm embrace and cynical rejection. "Embrace" theology has wrapped Christian doctrine, capitalism, profits, and business practices in one big group hug: Capitalism forms part of God's kingdom, and the Lord rewards Christian ethics with an enhanced bottom line. "Rejection" theology, on the other hand, identifies capitalism as a system built on greed and warns against the evils of accumulating wealth. The value of business, if any, is instrumental....

• Lean and Downright Mean By David Batstone. Nov-Dec 2002. 'Lean and mean' is the shapely figure to which companies are called to conform these days. It's worrisome that the mantra implies a clever business strategy. Firing large numbers of workers ought to be considered an admission of failure, a last resort, or perhaps a necessary evil in times of technological change or declining market conditions, not a badge of strong management.

• Technology Creates Tough Environment for Retailers By Mickey Alam Khan. Jan. 14, 2003. Price transparency, changing customer ethics,  post-Sept. 11 behavior and technology creep are the major trends that will play havoc with retailers, a retail consultant warned....It boils down to trust, which takes years to build yet seconds to shatter. Price is more than just what customers pay, it is a statement they make. So retailers must think hard about matching a competitor's price and what that says about the rest of their prices....

• Just what does it mean to be ethical in American business? Eileen Brownell for The Business Review from the January 24, 2003 print edition Comment. Consider Time's Persons of the Year in 2002: three whistleblowers in prominent American organizations. They believed that "the truth is one thing that must not be moved off the books." But they did so at a very high price-being outcast and isolated, and considered a "rat" or a "squealer." Their defense of the truth at the FBI, Enron and WorldCom was touted by Time as acts of bravery and heroism. Why does telling the truth come at such a high price when the alternatives-9/11 and corporate corruption-are clearly more consequential?

• Business ethics must begin at company's very top Scott Clark. Jan 27, 2003. Ethics issues are not always black and white; most fall into an in-between gray area. However, if you are the head of a business, you cannot afford even the appearance of unethical behavior. Consider how you would react to this ethics quiz I frequently give my MBA students at the University of Iowa.

• Trust Is a Must In the eyes of employees, investors, clients and the public at large, honesty is the only policy that will do. by Chris Sandlund. Entrepreneur magazine - October 2002.In 2002, people paid attention as Arthur Andersen, Enron, Tyco, WorldCom and other companies cast a veil of suspicion across American business. Think this is only a big-company problem? Don't.

• M.B.A. Programs Now Screen for Integrity, Too by Lynnley Browning. New York TimesUntil now, business schools have not tried to weed out potential corporate evildoers as part of the admissions process.... But with the collapse of Enron and WorldCom and questions about ethics among Wall Street bankers and analysts, that is changing.... Business Week, published by McGraw-Hill, is considering giving ethics instruction a more prominent weighting in its annual rankings of business schools, said Andrew M. Palladino, a spokesman. Neither The Wall Street Journal nor U.S. News and World Report, though, plans to follow suit.

• Is Greed Ever Good? No, Say Ethicists; and It’s Not Even Good for Capitalism, Some ArgueBy Michael S. James. ABCnews.com. 8-22-02. So how did greed go from "good" to "infectious?" It's happened before in American business, and likely will happen again. Robert Brent Toplin, who has written on the history of business greed ..., says for more than a century...American capitalism has run in cycles.

• Leadership Styles by Jeff Woods. August, 2002. Ethics DailyWhat is your leadership style? Are you a forceful leader? Do you express yourself with flair? Do you lead from behind the scenes? There are several leadership styles, and each has benefits and limitations, as well as obstacles that often surface when practicing that particular style. Part One describes four leadership styles that emphasize control over empowerment. Part Two describes five more styles of leadership, all of which emphasize empowerment over control.

• The Next Step for CSR: Economic Democracy If we want to know why the corporate social responsibility movement has accomplished so little of substance, here’s the reason: the pressure to get the numbers overrides everything else. It overrides not because God_given, organic ‘market’ forces are at work, but because the system is designed that way. It is designed to serve certain people and not others....Business Ethics is laying plans to convert itself into a nonprofit to be called the Economic Democracy Project and is seeking allies.

• The Moral Is the Message: An Interview with Communication Expert Quentin Schultze By Cliff Vaughn. 08-09-02. Quentin Schultze recently spoke with EthicsDaily.com about the role of technology in corporate scandals, spirituality, community, the church and more, commenting that we must not 'fall into the trap of expecting technology to solve our moral and spiritual problems.'

• Not All Great Leaders Are Heroic BOOK EXCERPT. In Leading Quietly, Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. of Harvard Business School says "modesty and restraint" can be responsible for impressive achievements....The basic guidelines can be summarized briefly. The first chapter advises people facing difficult problems not to kid themselves about how well they understand the situation or how much they can control. The chapter that follows explains why, in difficult situations, they should expect their motives to be mixed and even confused-and explores how valuable and useful mixed motives can be. The subsequent chapters follow in the same vein, offering highly pragmatic guidance.

• A Distinguished Theologian Looks At Copyright Ethics And The Fair Use Of Technology By John M. Frame. We are not constrained forever to meekly acquiesce to a system which continually threatens us with grave consequences, even for innocent oversights, on dubious moral grounds. Perhaps I have not read the religious press as carefully as I might have, but I have yet to see any article on this subject advocating anything other than grovelling compliance. Hence, I must drop the other shoe myself.

• Soul-Searching in the Corporate World By David Batstone. Many corporate workers feel dispirited, crushed by company behavior marked by greed, selfishness, and the quest for profit at any cost. They are looking for a new vision, a path to save the corporate soul. And just maybe their own.

• World Religions: Ethical Resources for the Modern Business Corporation By Greg Emery emery@ohiou.edu The modern multinational business corporation is perhaps the strongest social institution of our time. The largest of these are arguably more influential and far-reaching than many national governments or world religions.... They will be called on not only to manage their business successfully, but also to give intellectual, moral -- and perhaps even spiritual or existential -- guidance to human civilization.

• Right vs. Right: Ethical Dilemmas: What to Say to the Man Let Go? Should she tell Jim the truth, which is a right thing to do, or should she remain quiet and trust that the company would properly inform Jim, thus remaining loyal to the company? By defining the type of dilemma she faces, Mary is better able to decide how to resolve it.

• Right vs. Right: Ethical Dilemmas: Not a Bang--Just a Whimper. What's Going On? When he was handed the bill, ... he realized it had been inflated by about one-third of total project costs. Larry was shocked. He had never been confronted by such an apparently corrupt practice before.

• A Question Of Ethics By Clinton Wilder and John Soat. Doing business online brings into sharp focus ethical questions about privacy, employee monitoring, and sharing data in supply chains. Are IT professionals prepared to respond?

• Cell Phones Trigger Litigation Risks And Ethical Choices By Bob Wallace. Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there's nothing like the threat of litigation, particularly costly, high-profile personal-injury litigation, to infuse a company with the religion of business ethics.

• Resolving Real-Life Ethical Dilemmas By Carter McNamara. Real-to-Life Examples of Complex Ethical Dilemmas

 

Update on Workplace Spirituality: A Complete Guide for Business Leaders by Nancy R. Smith (with links to excerpts) BOOK REVIEWS: Atlantic Book Review Reader Views Order your copy now! NOTE: Shipping costs stated are for US and Canada. See Axial Age Publishing for shipping costs elsewhere.

 

Employees say: 69% - their organizations have Ethics training 52% - saw discrimination, stealing or sexual harassment 21% - saw abusive or intimidating behavior 19% - saw lying to customers, vendors, employees or the public -- 2005 National Business Ethics Survey

 

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others? --Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. -German Presbyterian minister William J.H. Boetcker (1873-1962)

 

To find integrity in our work let us cease to look toward the reward and let us look toward the work. -E. Merrill Root

 

If you win the rat race, you're still a rat. --Unknown