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Creating an Ethical Culture

Building a High Performance Team: Creating an Ethical Culture (ppt)

Founder and CEO of Ariba uses that company as a case study for defining key principles in building an organization
Keith Krach

Making the case that your program works (ppt)

The Editor of Ethikos magazine talks about what makes a credible ethics and compliance program
Joe Murphy, CCEP

Business Ethics: Why Do Good People Do Bad Things?

Podcast of an interview with Center Executive-in-Residence Jim Balassone.

Ethics and the Middle Manager: Creating "Tone in The Middle"

Specific behaviors middle managers must demonstrate in order for lower level employees to understand that the organization is serious about ethics
Kirk O. Hanson

The Roles and Responsibilities of the General Counsel in the Organizations Ethical Culture

Panel discussion among general counsels of large and small cap companies
Tom McCoy, Craig Nordlund, Martin Collins, Fred Go

Reconstituting the Ethical Culture at Hewlett Packard

Summary of a presentation by Hewlett-Packard Vice President and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer Jon Hoak on steps the company took to renew their commitment to ethics after the pretexting scandal.
Miriam Schulman

Toward an Ethical Culture

Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson identifies characteristics of an ethical organization.
Anne Federwisch

Sustaining Ernst & Youngs Ethical Culture

Susan Sweet describes EYs process developing their Americas ethics program for more than 35,000 employees in North, Central and South America, Mexico, Israel, and Canada.
Anne Federwisch

Principles for Building an Ethical Organization

R. Gopalakrishnan, executive director of Tata Sons, offers five principles for executives.
Miriam Schulman

Speaking Truth to Power: A White Paper

O'Toole, aresearch professor in the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California, explores how to encourage candor within organizations.
James O'Toole

Character Mentoring

A PowerPoint presentation on character formation in a business context keywords, business ethics, character, role model
Dennis Moberg

Understanding Rule Bending

A PowerPoint presentation on the Devaluation of compliance in the DOD
Leslie Sekerka

Speaking Truth to Power: The Role of the Executive

James O'Toole argues that great leaders encourage candor.
Jennifer Pittman

Ethical Risk Assessment: Crisis-prone or Crisis-prepared

Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson and SCU Assistant Professor of Management Shawn Berman describe a risk-assessment tool.
Anne Federwisch

Assessing for Ethics

Dan Pracher, business development manager for Development Dimensions International, explores how to hire employees who mesh with the ethical culture of the organization.
Anne Federwisch

Incorporating Ethics into the Organization's Strategic Plan

Robert Finocchio, former CEO of Informix, offers prescriptions for making ethics part of strategy
Miriam Schulman

Ethical Challenges in Human Resources

A talk given to the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership
James O'Toole

Board Governance and Culture Research Report

A PowerPoint presentation delivered at the April 6-7, 2005 Business and Organizational Partnership Meeting
Vail Leadership Institute

CEOs: Setting the Ethical Tone

The role of the CEO in setting a company's ethical culture was the focus of a panel at the April 6 meeting of the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership, a program of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and 13 corporations.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Ethics of Human Capital

What specific social responsibilities should businesses assume?
James O'Toole

Silicon Valley Executives Discuss Building an Ethical Organization

These comments are excerpts from presentations at the Ethics Center's third biennial global business Ethics Conference, "The Accountable Corporation," held February 18-19, 2005, on the Santa Clara University campus.
Ned Barnholt, Dan Warmenhoven

Culture Suggests Cheaters Do Prosper

Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson looks at the results of Americans' winner-take-all attitude.
Kirk O. Hanson

Encouraging Internal Whistleblowing in Organizations

How can businesses encourage employees to report ethical lapses?
Lilanthi Ravishankar

Confronting Unethical Conduct

Ethics for associations and nonprofit organizations.
Kirk O. Hanson

Link Between Moral and Market Values

Market value accounting and fraud.
William K. Black

Employee Loyalty

A company founder talks about employee loyalty in boom times.
an interview with Cheryl Breetwor

Ethics and Company Folklore

One of the co-founders of Apple Computer talks about instilling ethics into company culture.
A.C.

What Really Went Wrong With Enron? A Culture of Evil?

A panel of Santa Clara University Business Ethicists reflect on the reasons behind the Enron scandal.
Business Ethicists Panel

When Good People Do Bad Things at Work

Rote behavior, distractions, and moral exclusion stymie ethical behavior on the job. Discusses Ford Pinto case.
Dennis J. Moberg

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

In desperate need of a tax break for his company, a CEO contemplates a questionable campaign contribution.
Leon Panetta & Paul Locatelli, S.J.

Nutritional Foods

A company confronts the possibility that its product is causing illness.
Kirk O. Hanson

How Trust is Achieved in Free Markets

A free-market approach to establishing reliability.
Daniel B. Klein

Good Start

How businesses can incorporate ethics from the start-up phase.
Kirk O. Hanson