Are We Teaching Millennials to Be Amoral?
This is why I don't believe McBrayer has it right. The Common Core standards get almost everything wrong when it comes to educational policy, but not because they inculcate moral relativism.
Can Brands Be Enlightened?
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Strategic brand management is a well-advised and profitable route. If a brand can capture the hearts and minds of its hard-to-please consumers and, even better, harness a 'spirit of the times', it will benefit from commitment, passion and even advocacy.
Ethics Training Is Missing the Mark: Here's Why
Decisions individuals make cannot be necessarily managed by external factors; although, if ethical training helps individuals to understand and prepare for the internal factors that might be experienced while dealing with ethical dilemmas.
Staples, Like Other Companies, Can Afford to Treat Their Workers Right
Staples' decision will undoubtedly renew arguments that the ACA's employer mandate has led to harmful effects on work. These arguments, like parallel narratives about min. wage laws and paid sick leave ordinances, are largely inaccurate, and advocates of evidence-based, power-balancing policy are absolutely right to debunk them.
What Sony and the NFL Have in Common
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When money and judgment collide today, it seems we pretty much always go with the money.
A Trustworthy Press Is the Immune System of Democracy
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Do your best to get it right. If you do, great. If you don't, admit you got it wrong, fix it, even if hard, and try harder next time. And we should reward journalists and press outlets that are practicing good, honest journalism.
Recycling Opens the Door to a Circular Economy
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Recycling is critically important, but it's only one part of a larger, globally emergent environmental paradigm known as the Circular Economy. As we look forward to America Recycles Day, we are reminded that we have so much more to do.
The New Privacy Frontier: Creating a Better Mobile Experience
Looking at privacy through the lens of the consumer, they are confused, concerned and not feeling as if they are in the driver's seat. Moreover, the http://www.dropinmag.com/uncategorized/create-the-perfect-blog-with-these-great-tips/ underlying security frameworks are constantly under attack.
Unexpected Cost of Ethical Behavior
In pursuit of my college degrees, work at Fortune 500 companies, and memberships in professional organizations, I was directed and trained to ensure ethical compliance --- as it's a personal, organizational, and company responsibility.
Traditional Virtues Trump Ethics Codes
So, are virtues a matter of genetics or environmental influences? I have no answer to this question except to say that it is the wrong question in this conversation.
Breaking the Rules -- And Feeling Good About It
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Intriguingly, people don't lie and cheat indiscriminately -- simply because they can get away with it. Even when there is no chance of being found out, people show some level of aversion to acting unethically. They want it both ways: to profit by dishonesty, but also to preserve some sense of themselves as moral beings.
How Do You Deal With an Unethical, Productive Employee
Firing a productive employee with the intention to find and rehire someone else isn't a decision to take lightly. That decision impacts the company's bottom line. But without productive employees, an organization cannot excel, and that affects the bottom line as well.
Leaders: Legal, Ethical or Right?
When people decide to disregard their moral compass as the official business handbook, they begin to make up the rules as they go. Anything can happen, and the situation frequently proves to be a source of conflict.
Is Your Wireless Carrier Jacking You Around?
Compared to parts of Europe, where unlimited cell phone data access can be obtained without a contract for a small portion of the fees charged in the USA, cell phone data fees in America are a nightmare.
How Seriously Does Your Nonprofit Board Take the Matter of Ethics?
Most board http://www.blackpearlphoto.net/uncategorized/here-are-some-great-tips-straight-from-the-blogging-gurus/ members are aware of their obligation to ensure their nonprofit's compliance with certain standard regulations e.g. making tax payments, su...
Enthuse Your Way to Employee Buy-In
A primary challenge for supervisors is to encourage others within their organization to go the extra mile and get the job done in a timely manner. In ...
Why Facebook Should Follow Ethical Standards -- LIke Everybody Else
It is not clear that Facebook broke the law -- the regulations apply technically to federal-funded research, but have been universally adopted by researchers as the standard. Facebook should agree to http://www.pc4p.net/?p=27 follow these guidelines as well.
Pernicious Moms Threaten Capitalism
If you accept the position that the only thing corporations should care about are profits, then a trend that decreases profits might be thought of as harmful. But the only perniciousness that I see is the inherent danger of a profit-only mentality that views a thoroughly wholesome, healthy, environmentally beneficial trend like parents making their own baby food as pernicious.
Trust and the Wealth of Nations
By Carolyn Ervin In the 17th arrondissement of Paris you can walk past a bust of the 19-20th century French writer, Tristan Bernard. It carries a m...
How a Faith-Driven Stay-at-Home Mom Exposed an International Price-Fixing Conspiracy
Late at night, Mark Whitacre watched an FBI agent leave his home and walk toward the car, gone at last and completely oblivious to the corporate crime at work in a Fortune 500 company. It was over.
Business Ethics
Fifty Catholic academic-ethicists wrote President John Garvey of the Catholic University of America (CUA), protesting the university's acceptance of $1 million from the Charles Koch Foundation to support programs on "principled entrepreneurship."
The CEO as a Public Official
Barra may be an example of what we will increasingly see -- and expect. In the world of social media, the World Wide Web, and a 24/7 news cycle, private sector leaders can neither isolate their companies nor control the expectations that govern how they need to behave.
New Jewish Camp to Teach Entrepreneurship to Teens
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You know it's a good idea when parents lament that they wish there was something like this when they were teens. That seems to be the general consensu...
The WHOLE Truth?
Swarthmore College, where I took my first ethics course, which changed my life Photo by Bruce Weinstein A friend of mine, whom I'll call Maurice (n...
CVS: A Prescription to Do the Right Thing
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CVS is a notable exception and, hopefully, a tipping point in moving companies from being profit-driven to profit-and-purpose-driven.
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