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Is this really right?
One of my closest friends is a mathematician, but we don’t know each other through any professional association. We know each other because we...
Media ethics and accountability
In some respects an opportunity to comment on media ethics and accountability is like being asked to participate in an expedition to shoot fish in a...
Manufacturing health
Contents: Introduction The application of technique Applying the notion of accountability Reviewing the old concepts in a new light 'Squaring the...
Responding to disasters
The tsunami appeal raises many ethical issues, not least accountability and transparency, writes Jackie Randles. Like millions of people around the...
Keating's trial by television
Anyone who watched Australia's 60 Minutes air allegations of impropriety against former Prime Minister Paul Keating would agree the story pushed all...
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...
Measuring and managing corporate social responsibility
St James Ethics Centre acts as trustee for the Corporate Responsibility Index in Australia, a tool developed by UK charity Business in the Community...
Good corporate citizenship?
This issue of City Ethics (now Living Ethics) deals with issues as apparently different as that of: crime against business, the failure of existing...
Allocation of responsibility
A correspondent recently faxed to me the details of a 'loyalty' scheme which allows its members to secure substantial discounts at participating...
Responsibility and accountability
What should we make of a 'loyalty' scheme which, amongst other things, generates receipts for an amount that exceeds the real cost to members when...
Some thoughts on the role of the internal auditor
As a practicing company director who sits on the board of a medium sized Australian financial institution, I can honestly say that I place...
Excess baggage
When are we going to have a deep and serious discussion about the foundations of corporate governance in Australia? Perhaps now, prompted by a swag...
Board self-appraisal
As anyone involved in management will testify, company directors spend a considerable amount of time holding other people to account for the quality...
Evaluation of directors
As anyone involved in management will testify, company directors spend a considerable amount of time holding other people to account for the quality...
Compliance and accountability
Hardly a year passes without significant increases in the risk and level of punishment that might be meted out to errant corporations. One need only...
Accountability in the boardroom
Changes to the corporations law, either enacted or envisaged, have been designed to ensure that directors take far greater responsibility for the...
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