The most important influence on ethical behavior in the workplace is overall company culture, which determines whether employees are valued or belittled and whether stakeholders are treated with trust ...

At work, ethical behavior is the legal and moral code guiding employee behavior. Being a professional requires more than wearing a nice suit. It requires ethical behavior that drives interactions with ...

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 ...

The public demands ethical business practices, and corporate executives and their employees agree that leaders should establish a culture that is then modeled companywide. Yet, despite these broad ...

In today’s difficult business environment, it can be easy to overlook ethical dilemmas in the workplace out of sheer exasperation. But when a company makes the effort to treat employees in a fair and ...

Traditional compliance monitors corporate data to flag potential unethical behavior by employees, whether illegal actions or simply those that violate corporate policies. The programs then seek to ...

Every decision we make, whether consciously or unconsciously, is informed by our ethical values, including those in business. While ethics has always been emphasized in the finance classes I’ve taken, ...

Ann Skeet is the Senior Director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center of Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Ethical leadership creates an environment where the goals and values of people ...