Ethical people are those who recognize the difference between right and wrong and consistently strive to set an example of good conduct. In a business setting, ethical behavior is behavior that means ...

A leading psychologist helps leaders plan ahead for ethical challenges at work.

As quality guru W. Edwards Deming reportedly said, “You can expect what you inspect.” Or put slightly differently, in business, you get what you inspect, not what you expect. When Jan Carlson, the ...

Violation of ethics standards can break the bond of trust that is essential to a profitable relationship between a small business and its customers. Maintaining that bond of trust is important to an ...

Everyday, we all see articles claiming to make companies and their employees more ethical. This week I asked some MBA students at Endicott College to give their perspectives on various topics of ...

Ann Skeet is the senior director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Philosophers and ethicists were consulted when the Markkula Center for Applied ...

Is your boss ethical? Does he or she do what's right, as opposed to what's profitable? If so, they may turn downright abusive the next day. New research on leader behavior suggests ethical conduct ...

Rote behavior, distractions, and moral exclusion stymie ethical behavior on the job. The news is full of the exploits of corporate villains. We read about how officials at Lincoln Savings and Loan ...

People share many different things at work to try and brighten the drudgery of office life. They append moral quotes to an email signature line. They sit little statues of Buddha or other religious ...

Leaders optimize for speed, visibility or short-term success while ignoring long-term effects. They treat ethics as a ...

Scientists have developed a concept called Empowerment to help robots to protect and serve humans, while keeping themselves safe. Rather than trying to make a machine understand complex ethical ...