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What Pennsylvania Taught Our Children Last Night « The Rutherford Lawson Blog

Blog post about the Pennsylvania primary results and what they say about our values.

Nonprofits ethics: now nearly as bad as business and government

Ethics at nonprofits can be as bad as business and government.

100 most influential people in business ethics

Here s a list of the 100 most influential people in business ethics

Meijer to aid probe of its role in recall vote

An astroturfing effort by a PR firm, working on behalf of retail giant Meijer, sought to unseat local officials who blocked the company's effort to build a superstore in Acme Township.

Ethical double standards

Worrying Deloitte survey suggests that teenagers claim they are ethical but are still prepared to lie and cheat to get ahead.

State Dept. inspector general resigns - and gets all Biblical about it…

Howard Krongard, State Dept. Inspector General, has not only announced his resignation, he's perhaps invoked divine wrath on himself doing so....

Crossing the bar in South Carolina…

Politicos in South Carolina seem to have gotten bar exam results changed so that their daughters could pass.

Ethics danger signals

Ethical misconduct is on the rise and has now reached pre-Enron levels. During the past 12 months, more than half the employees surveyed said they had seen ethical misconduct of some kind. And more than two in five didn't report what they had observed as one in eight experienced some sort of retaliation.

Questions from ethics classes

Here is a list of frequently asked questions you get at leadership training workshops focusing on ethics.

Eight reasons for ethics awareness programs

It's often said that you can't teach ethics. But ethics awareness programs help. Here are eight good reasons for developing them.

New rules for lunch

There are new rules stopping lawmakers from accepting gifts or even a lunch from lobbyists or their clients. But there are gray areas too. How does business get around it?

Ethics watch

A new study has found that more than 90 percent of companies have gone to the trouble of writing an ethics policy, but few have processes in place to make sure it is being followed.

The downside of charismatic leaders

Beware of charismatic leaders - they're much more susceptible to susceptible to disastrous ethical lapses. The problem, is that charismatic leaders surround themselves with sycophantic people so there's no reality check. Once that's in place, it's all downhill.

Personal values, organizational values

When ethics scandals hit, it tends to be the fault of certain individuals inside the organization. More often than not, they have allowed their own personal values to infect the organization. So how do you reconcile the differences between personal and organizational values? Here are the some important steps.

Ethics gaps

Businesses perform reasonably well when it comes to corporate governance but a new report shows serious ethics gaps in the areas of human rights and environment.