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 ...

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 ...

Hana Callaghan is the director of the Government Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and the author of Campaign Ethics, A Field Guide. The opinions expressed herein are her own.

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 ...

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, ...

Leadership in many types of organizations sometimes fails to distinguish between governance and ethics. Governance might affect ethics. But this is not always the case. Strongly worded statements and ...

Ethical leadership is needed more than ever in today's corporate and political global landscape. The media reports numerous examples daily of inappropriate ethical behaviour by corporations and ...

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 ...

As science innovation has progressed, and as we celebrate what that means, a new and urgent need exists. As citizens of the world, we all have a responsibility to think morally and ethically about ...

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 ...

Most leaders would claim they want the utmost ethical standards upheld by those they lead. But they might be shocked to discover that, even with the best of intentions, their own leadership may be ...