This article featured in the latest edition of Public Administration Today Jan – Mar 12th. IPAA story whistle blowing.PDF
This article featured in the latest edition of Public Administration Today Jan – Mar 12th. IPAA story whistle blowing.PDF
Why do organisations have values? Despite the ubiquitous organisational value statements, many organisational leaders continue to question their worth. Managing Values’ experience of working in the values area over the last 15 years is that organisational leaders reap three strategic benefits from maintaining values consistency in words and actions which are interdependent and therefore give [...]
In 2009, the US based Ethics Resource Center (ERC) and Hay Group published a research study that looked at the link between a company’s ethics management system and its impact on employee engagement. Their research found considerable evidence to show that a leadership commitment to managing the ethical dimension of business is good for business. [...]
As the economic juggernaut that is the Chinese economy rolls on through the old world, one of the questions asked is, where does ethics sit in this most managed-of-managed economies? To find out how things might have changed in the last 5 years, we recently attended a global conference on ethics in Beijing. The conference [...]
View their video on YouTube Greece, Goldman, and Financial Transparency? The Greek government is deeply in debt, due to decades of excess public spending. Greek politicians were unwilling to reduce services or raise taxes. Today Greece’s annual budget deficit is about 13 percent, and the national debt is over $400 billion. So, they had to [...]
Time and again I come across people searching for answers, for a sense of meaning in a seemingly meaningless time. Not since the period between the two great wars has humankind faced such an era of uncertainty. In the past five years, we have seen a series of assaults on the very fabric of civil society and the decline of the institutions that have served as pillars of that society has raised the collective levels of ire and uncertainty to a point where people start to question the very meaning of life itself.
