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 ...

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 ...

Financial services firms seeking to evaluate and improve their risk management programs often find that defining, encouraging and monitoring ethical behavior is one of the most difficult undertakings ...

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 ...

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 ...

One can scarcely open the newspaper without finding examples of smart, well-educated people who have behaved in ethically challenged ways: for example, Bernard Madoff and the numerous investment ...

Some people believe that ethics cannot be taught, that people are the product of their upbringing or nature and cannot be changed. But studies show that ethics can be taught throughout a lifetime. And ...

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 ...

Drug maker Eli Lilly & Co. wants its employees to report wrongdoing and bad behavior. Part of that effort involves encouraging employees to watch videos of real-life situations in which their ...

Judith Stark does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

It is almost Christmas time, and the song “Santa Claus is coming to town” keeps playing over and over. For me, the key lines of this jingle are “He knows if you’ve been bad or good so be good for ...

The systems we require for sustaining our lives increasingly rely upon algorithms to function. Governance, energy grids, food distribution, supply chains, healthcare, fuel, global banking, and much ...