Tag: Business ethics
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Sustainability reporting
With a membership of more than 132,000 finance, accounting and business professionals across the globe, CPA Australia is one of the world’s...
Boycott or engage
Philip Wright The recent call for a boycott of Pork by Animals Australia raises a number of ethical questions around the use of boycott (named after...
WikiLeaks has not gone far enough
Jake Goldenfein Before a full house at Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas, the question was posed to Julian Assange, “Has WikiLeaks...
The agony and the ecstasy of Steve Jobs
The death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on 6 October 2011 prompted tributes from millions around the world including US President Barack Obama,...
Hackings, sackings and so on
Just call your number, press hash and enter your pin code. That’s what my service provider told me when i asked how i could listen to my...
Workplace bullying
Most people spend a staggering percentage of their waking hours at work. This makes it not just worrying but totally unacceptable when they have to...
Responsible business practice
St James Ethics Centre is continuing its work to transition the Responsible Business Practice (RBP) initiative to sustainability, as part of a final...
Social business and the limits to growth
Microcredit has been shown to be an effective way to help the world’s poor create sustainable small business opportunities. But Donnie...
The ethics of the global financial crisis
As the leaders of the G20 group of countries sat down to discuss their response to the world’s economic woes, Simon Longstaff asked that they...
Dealing with ethical dilemmas in your workplace
One of the first calls ever received by St James Ethics Centre’s free Ethics Counselling service* was from a young accountant who was due to...
Executive remuneration
Despite the intensity of recent debate about executive pay, two fundamental questions have been largely ignored, writes Simon Longstaff. The first...
Ethics and the business of biotechnology
Introduction While the realm of science fiction conjures up the extraordinary and fantastic, mere reality seems capable of rivalling the images of...
International environment for business
It may seem odd to link the name of Thomas Hobbes with the topic of business ethics. Yet, a grasp of one of Hobbes' most memorable notions may help...
Moral muteness
A good cartoon has the power to bring home a point about ethics with a precision that rational argument can rarely hope to match. Someone like...
In search of certainty
Contents: Background The relevance for business & the professions The way ahead: are there any lessons for management? Background One of the...
Excesses of the 1980s
I am about half way through reading Trevor Sykes' excellent, disturbing book The Bold Riders. Sykes' challenges the reader a number of ways. Whilst...
Ethical decision-making
Introduction While people in business have always had to face a host of complex ethical issues, the current environment of continuous and rapid...
The circuit-breaker
Introduction An increasing number of people are coming to accept that the debate about business and professional ethics is of importance. Yet how...
Pausing on the road to OK Tedi
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. As far as proverbs go, this one has a particularly unnerving quality as it seems to deny any saving...
The option of folly is always in demand
If, as it seems likely, WorldCom has been felled by a massive act of fraud, then we need to ask why. My hope is that, in casting around for someone...
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