Ethics
The Importance Of Equality And Diversity Training In Modern Business
The times they are changing. Not the beginning to a well known folk song but an accurate description of the way the world of business is facing up to some of the areas it has perhaps neglected in the past. It’s easy to forget, given the way the typical o [read more...]
Five Guidelines for Ethical Business Communications
Do you understand what behaving ethically entails? According to Michael Josephson, there are four principles of ethical behavior: honesty, integrity, fairness, and concern for others. You can think of these four basic principles as the legs of an imaginary sto [read more...]
Small Business Employees Sometimes Lack Ethics
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 b [read more...]
The Litmus Test: Don’t Lie, Cheat, or Steal
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, liste [read more...]
That Slippery Slope: Four Examples of Stinking Thinking
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 familiesR [read more...]
Business Opportunity Laws And Rules
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 grow [read more...]
Sarbanes Oxley Act Questionable If It Really Helped Or Hurt Securities Market In US
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 tradin [read more...]
Business Ethics: A Quiz with Many Right Answers
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 intende [read more...]
Your Personal Code of Ethics: How Does it Work in Today’s World?
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 w [read more...]
When In Business Remember Your Values And Your Principles
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. A [read more...]
