Businesses can take a few simple steps to create an environment where employees feel more comfortable raising critical ethics concerns. Every businessperson would like to believe that their employees would readily approach them with any ethics concerns in the workplace. But the reality is that many ethics concerns go unreported until it’s too late. To…

Read more

The wrong vendor or business partner can harm your business and reputation. Here’s how to find the right ones. To paraphrase John Donne, no business is an island. Every enterprise, from a self-employed consultant who works from home to a company with a few hundred employees, requires the services of other third-party businesses in order…

Read more

Your small business is always vulnerable to financial mismanagement ranging from employees “skimming” money occasionally, to serious, long-term embezzlement. But there are many steps you can take to mitigate your vulnerabilities. In our survey of small business owners and managers on protecting one’s business, nearly two-thirds reported being “somewhat concerned” or “very concerned” about ethics…

Read more

Here are the top 5 functional areas reported as having ethics issues The U.S. Bank Small Business Ethics Center surveyed 301 small business owners and managers nationwide to learn about where they dealt with ethics in their companies. Not surprisingly, we found that ethics is a high priority for small business owners and managers, regardless…

Read more

Mary Gentile, Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership Mary Gentile, Creator/Director of Giving Voice to Values, explains why how to respond when one of your subordinates raises a concern about an ethics issue. Originally by Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership. Used by kind permission of NDDCEL.

Read more

It’s time to invest in face-to-face training that empowers employees to have difficult conversations, says Tamekia MizLadi Smith. In a witty, provocative talk, Smith shares a workplace training program called “I’m G.R.A.C.E.D.” that will inspire bosses and employees alike to communicate with compassion and respect. Bottom line: always let people know why their work matters.…

Read more

In this fun and nerdy talk, ethics professor Christopher Robichaud explains how he worked the key principles of Dungeons & Dragons into an ethics simulation used to train future policymakers at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. This video is shared under a Creative Commons license (BY-NC-ND 4.0). Please visit Ted.com. This talk was presented at…

Read more

As a business owner, there’s plenty of challenges that you know how to handle yourself, but what about when it comes to business ethics? Ethics in business don’t come with an easy playbook or assigned advisor to help you manage them. Your CPA might be able to find financial impropriety, but that doesn’t mean they…

Read more

In every workplace, there are three basic kinds of people: givers, takers and matchers. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant breaks down these personalities and offers simple strategies to promote a culture of generosity and keep self-serving employees from taking more than their share. By: Adam Grant This video is shared under a Creative Commons license (BY-NC-ND…

Read more

Incentive gaming, or “gaming the system,” refers to when we figure out ways to increase our rewards for performance without actually improving our performance.

Read more