Businesses Need To Nurture Leaders Who Know The Right Thing To Do — And Do It Companies need to cultivate “moral champions” – employees who defend key values within the organization. Companies also need to weed out “moral sinners and neutrals” – employees who know right from wrong but don’t act on it. Businesses should…
Q: How do leaders find satisfaction in each workday and create an environment conducive to employee satisfaction? A: When employees feel they are secure in their basic needs and wants, they aspire to a sense of shared governance with the leader. This recognition of their time, energy and effort produces a state of contentment, possibly…
The Ethics and Compliance Initiative (ECI) recently released a report, “Ethical Leadership Around the World and Why It Matters,” as part of its Global Business Ethics Survey. Among the results, researchers found that ethical leadership is key to lowering ethics and compliance risk. Unfortunately, they also found that leaders tend to have a more positive…
I cannot say this enough to employers: Punishing an employee who participates in an EEOC charge will only multiple your problems. Michael Baldonado, EEOC San Francisco District Director Employer retaliation can lead to government fines, criminal charges, and employee lawsuits. Whistleblowing includes reporting unacceptable labor and employment practices to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. A…
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has the power to enforce many whistleblower protection laws. This authority includes many laws, such as the Affordable Care Act, that might not seem to relate to the administration’s traditional role. The laws OSHA enforces contain whistleblower anti-retaliation provisions. These laws generally provide that employers may not discharge…
Kelly Richmond Pope, TEDxDePaulUniversity Whistleblowers change the course of events. In this TEDx video, fraud researcher and documentary filmmaker Kelly Richmond Pope explains why whistleblowers should be listened to and protected. This video is shared under a Creative Commons license (BY-NC-ND 4.0). Please visit Ted.com. This TED Talk was originally posted in April 2017.
Margaret Heffernan, TEDxDanubia A whistleblower may take substantial risks–professionally and personally–to reveal serious problems. But sometimes, managers and the public refuse to act on that information. Selective blindness can have drastic costs, as explained by author and former CEO Margaret Heffernan. This video is shared under a Creative Commons license (BY-NC-ND 4.0). Please visit Ted.com. This…
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…
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