Resources
3D Ethics
Authored by Managing Values founders and Principal Consultants, Attracta Lagan and Brian Moran, '3D Ethics' explores the intersection of the three dimensions of ethics, personal, organisational and societal and asks some important questions about the importance of ethics in a 21st century context.
Articles
The Internet time sink
Wall Street Journal notes that huge chunks of company time are being consumed by employees tuning into YouTube or MySpace,...more
Ethics training
In running close to 200 ethics training workshops in the last 12 months, Managing Values has observed the same top four dynamics that characterise workplaces as noted...more
The ethical difference between “Surfing” and “Astroturfing”
As more and more people – especially but not exclusively Gen Ys – use social networks and virtual communities to conduct their social lives and gather...more
Executive Ethical Leadership.
Amoral leadership rather than unethical leadership was found to be more common among senior executives in an American study of executives and ethics...more
Has compliance become de facto ethics?
Behind every major Australian corporate scandal of late, can be found an organisational culture where unethical practices went unchecked. Yet,...more
I'm having what she's having.
Top Values as chosen by Fortune 100 companies: ...more
Why the public sector is a great place to work.
Is the public sector a good place to work if you want to satisfy your personal values? The answer, of course, is it...more
Ethical cleansing - A practical guide to managing workplace ethics
There is a mood sweeping through Australian business and government, a mood to clean up our act and move to the higher ground in terms of how...more
Money not the only thing making the world work
ONE of the many contradictions in modern Australian society is the tension between the increasing focus on individualism and the higher-order need for society to pull...more
Dilemma Consequences: Newsletter Issue 1
In each issue, we will pose a common workplace dilemma. You will have four choices and each choice...more
Shining some light on workplace white collar crime...
It is notoriously difficult to gain insight into the motivations behind white-collar crime since most cases remain unreported. Instead, the perpetrators are paid to slink away quietly in the interests of corporate reputation. Recently, global...more
Exploding Workplace Ethics
Myth 1 You can't teach ethics Reality: People learn both ethical and unethical behaviours in the workplace. Unethical behaviour is as much created and promoted...more
A Vote for Ethics
As election fever grips the nation one of the silent questions stalking both political parties is just how far ethics and integrity concerns will influence voters' decisions. In the last few days we've seen ugly exchanges in Parliament...more
MBA Mindset: Old Dogs New Tricks?
A recent spate of corporate scandal and misdemeanour has highlighted the need to address the ethical mindset of business leaders. It is easy to be critical when a prominent corporation is scrutinised by the media...more
The citizenry wants more ethical outcomes than our leaders are providing
CIVIL society's exasperation at our political leaders' distancing themselves from any responsibility for AWB’s antics had increased the number of voters concluding that...more
When good people do bad things
SOME YEARS AGO WHILE CONSULTING to a large accountancy firm, I found myself interviewing a young professional who had recently joined the firm. Let's call her Crystal. Crystal...more
Are you responsible?
BEGINNING WITH THE EISE CASE IN 1991, where an honorary director of the National Safety Council of Australia was found personally liable to the tune of $96 million for the debts of that organisation, the lifting of the...more
Ethics at work
PHILOSOPHER AND THEOLOGIAN PAUL Tillich once said: "Ethics is not a subject, it's a life put to the test in a thousand daily moments." Nowhere could this be more relevant than inside the modern-day...more
Corporate Reputation - the most important company asset?
The current widespread public backlash against business and its perceived unethical practices has left industry leaders scrambling to protect and nurture their corporate reputations. While the concept of business having to earn its’...more
The Business of Ethics
Until perhaps only 15 years ago, business existed comfortably outside of civil society. Politicians, business people and scientists lived in peaceful co-existence, each recognising the sovereignty of their separate states. The rest of society...more
Animal Logic
In terms of workplace culture organisations are as deep as the ocean and, like the ocean, much of what happens lies beneath the surface. Those who seek to change cultures have to find novel ways of surfacing existing barriers such as the mental...more
Must business ethics forever be the bridesmaid to legal compliance?
It’s a sad reflection on the state of corporate fitness that the types of ethical issues that continue to emerge are more the result of an absence of any intent to manage ethically than an indication of Machiavellian intent. Although...more
A Sense of Balance
“Ethics is not a subject, it’s a life put to the test in a thousand moments.” (after Paul Tillich) Time and again I come across people searching for answers, for a sense of meaning in a seemingly meaningless time....more