Ethics Articles

Business » Ethics | By Cash Miller @ Sunday, 16th November 2008

Many small businesses are saddled with a very familiar problem. How do you find good employees? For business this seems to be an age old question. A question that seems to have a great deal of answers but no real solutions. Hiring a good employee can be a hit or miss proposition. Hopefully though once you have gained some experience [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Sally Rhys @ Friday, 31st October 2008

In life, \"Truth matters\", to quote one of my favorite leaders ever, a former General Counsel with whom I worked. If you are like most people and want to sleep well at night, stay off the slippery slope. When an alarm bell rings in your mind, listen to it! It probably sounded off for a reason. Pausing [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Sally Rhys @ Thursday, 30th October 2008

You have probably heard of examples of behavior at work that seem unbelievable. Imagine a case where an employee in a landscaping business is found to have been ordering extra plants and other supplies from a vendor to use at their home and their families\' homes. You think to yourself, and maybe have conversations with co-workers, \"WHAT was she [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Obinna Heche @ Thursday, 11th September 2008

Too many offers of guaranteed income or of projected income can be found online these days. When someone is scouring the internet for job announcements or possibly with the intent of starting a business, the number of business opportunities that pop up is growing quite large. These offers are sometimes not in compliance with business opportunity law specifications. How does [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Patricia Stevens @ Wednesday, 27th August 2008

In 2002 the Sarbanes Oxley Act was passed into federal law after the American nation was shocked by scandals that rocked large businesses from Enron, WorldCom, and Adelphia to name a few. These scandals all related to businesses and firms using insider trading to get ahead resulting in the loss of share value to many individual investors and drastically [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Sally Rhys @ Wednesday, 23rd July 2008

You can find various business ethics quizzes around thPick the one answer you think is wrong. This one is different. Each question has only one WRONG answer, doesn\'t analyze your answers and tell you where you went wrong. Rather, it is simply intended to raise your ethical consciousness, maybe even stimulate a little discussion between you [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Sally Rhys @ Tuesday, 22nd July 2008

Each of us carries around within us a personal code of ethics. We may not be conscious of it; we may not deliberately consult it on a daily basis, we may not apply a decision tree against it to make a choice, but it exists. And, at times, it may falter, or we may apply different ethical principles [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Cash Miller @ Friday, 18th July 2008

The pressures people face as entrepreneurs can at times become burdensome. You are the boss, the one person within your company that is ultimately responsible for everything that goes on. Sometimes you may feel all alone in the world that makes up your life. And sometimes the pressure can seem overwhelming. Being in business for yourself does not mean living [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Amy Nutt @ Friday, 11th July 2008

Business ethics is an interesting branch of business theory, primarily because of the fact that they are inherently interesting in a market economy. People tend to be extremely distrustful of corporations in market economies and the bigger they are, the worse that problem of trust usually gets. Business ethics therefore are politically charged in many different circumstances and that in [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Tim Wright @ Monday, 23rd June 2008

Integrity in business, especially on the internet, seems to be a quality that, unfortunately, is rarely found nowadays. The internet marketing world has become so glutted with hype, scams and empty promises that even the most trusting of us have become skeptical about the claims we\'re subjected to on a daily basis. So when we find a company or [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Paul Johnson @ Friday, 13th June 2008

The probability that he will go to jail for what he did is almost zero. His lack of personal leadership resulted in thousands of people feeling violated, cheated and betrayed. If his patrons trusted him before, his impersonal approach to leadership shredded that trust in a matter of milliseconds. We won\'t give our support to leaders we don\'t trust. 2008 is [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Sally Rhys @ Tuesday, 10th June 2008

You may think that business ethics pertains to OTHER people. You learned good ethics at your mother\'s knee. Well, what did she tell you about conflicts of interest? As a former Director, Ethics and Compliance for a $1.5B publicly traded organization, I learned a few important bits of information I would like to share with you. 1. A conflict [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Sally Rhys @ Monday, 9th June 2008

Wow -- every day seems to bring us a new story about business ethics wrongdoing! Is America headed to hell in a hand basket because of a serious lack of ethics at the highest level in American business? Or, it is just that ethical transgressions are more visible now? Or is it that the media reports more? [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Catherine Harvey @ Monday, 19th May 2008

The UK is fast becoming the Health and Safety nightmare of the modern world. There are those who work in the care sector who are not allowed to come into physical contact with the people they care for fear of breaching some health and safety law, there are those in childcare who are not allowed to so much as apply [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Catherine Harvey @ Thursday, 24th April 2008

When it comes to the use of office furniture there are several etiquette rules that should be observed and these rules will differ from office to office. What is acceptable in one place will be your downfall in another. Suss out the rules of your new office early on and you will be welcomed with open arms if you observe [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Billy Kite @ Friday, 18th April 2008

The Talmud cited the following incident: There was once a food shortage in Nehardea. All the people sold their mansions. Eventually, wheat arrived and Rav Nachman told them that the law is that the mansions must be returned to their original owners. The Talmud notes that the reason why sales are void is because they were made in error, since it [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Melissa Vokoun @ Tuesday, 8th April 2008

The environment of your workplace is vital to employee satisfaction, reduction of turnover, and productivity. It is also vital to the legal stability of your business. A hostile work environment can be the basis for many types of employee complaints and causes of legal action. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lists as a basis for employee complaints [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Linda Dipman @ Wednesday, 12th March 2008

Recently my son, who is a minister with a master in divinity from the South Western Baptist Theological Seminary, in Dallas, Texas was fired from his job. He had put years of service into the biggest First Southern Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas as their Video Production Engineer. He was highly praised and he was known by the [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Leslie Parchment @ Monday, 10th March 2008

The ethics of buying a fake doctors excuse is a hot topic of debate these days. Although opinion varies, the fact is that thousands of people each day buy fake doctors notes to miss work or delay a test at school. This is not surprising when you think that most of us have told a \"little white lie\" at one [more...]

Business » Ethics | By Court Tuttle @ Monday, 25th February 2008

That question has already been answered to the extent of jail terms, lost pensions, personal disgrace and yet that is only the tip of the iceberg. We as human beings must build organizations in which freedom and personal initiative can cohabit with cooperation, caring and a highly integrated harmony or all is lost. Hard times are not coming they are [more...]