Ethics
Ethics News, Articles, Blogs, Webinars, White Papers & Events. Human Resources Management featuring HR news on Ethics.
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Laughing Out the Door: Half of Employees Admit to Stealing Corporate Data
There exists no greater deterrent to copycat misconduct in the future than putting a thief through the legal wringer. Your employees will know that your agreements have teeth and that you will go to mat to enforce them.
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Lance's Lot—The Cost of Fraud
Every organization whether in sports, business, academia, or government has rules. But they're enforced retroactively, after the damage is done. We need to think more about the costs of our actions before we do them and temper our desire to win with integrity.
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Wal-Mart Expands FCPA Probe to Brazil, China, India
The FCPA, a federal law with criminal and civil penalties jointly enforced by the U.S. Department of Justice and the SEC, punishes foreign bribery, inaccurate financial records and inadequate controls.
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Law Firm Ordered to Restore Retirement, Pension Plan Assets
Eichholz Law Firm P.C. and former Managing Partner Benjamin Eichholz breached their fiduciary responsibilities under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by improperly transferring and lending plan assets to prohibited recipients.
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Drama Discussions a Drag for Workers and a Bother for Bosses
Of the nearly 300 corporate executives, managers and employees who took a recent survey, nearly 40 percent said sex and relationships were the most taboo workplace topic.
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Holiday Parties Turn Into Sandy Relief Efforts
Companies across the city ask their employees to raise money and bring canned goods and clothing. Those affected by the storm, including teachers and firefighters, get invitations.
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How Do You Fight Invisible Discrimination?
If we foster a workplace of openness and inclusion, when that hatred exposes itself employees will understand that it belongs to a rogue and not your company, and hopefully, choose not to hold you accountable (provided you respond quickly and decisively when brought to your attention).
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Holiday Parties Say a lot About Your Workplace Culture … for Good and for Bad
This case, however, holds a deeper lesson about corporate culture and your workplace. If your company has a culture of condoning sexual harassment, no policy, and no amount of training, will render your holiday parties (or any workday, for that matter) safe.
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Putting the Human Back in Human Resources, Redux
Employers, what do you think costs more? Accommodating a few days of unpaid time off or defending this lawsuit?
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The Manti Te'o Scandal: What Can Companies Learn From It?
… undoubtedly come out sooner or later.What I do believe is that when stars are held to different standards when it comes to ethics , it reflects badly on the organization even if it improves the bottom line in the short term. Te'o, according to reports …
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New Rules for New Communications
… Equal Employment Opportunity Commission trial attorney and the president and CEO of Atlanta-based ELI, Inc. , which provides ethics and compliance training that helps many of the world's leading organizations build and maintain inclusive, legal, productive …
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Credentialing, Competency, and MOOCs
… Already, millions of hours of training segments are delivered annually on workplace topics such as harassment, code of conduct, ethics and discrimination.But school and work are not the same. Overall, there are different learning purposes when we compare …
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10 Ethics Trends for 2010
Commentary: Private misdeeds will get leaders into public trouble, employers will use social networks for background checking, and juries in employment law cases will side more than ever with employees if they think workers have been abused. Those are just some of the workplace ethics trends to ...
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HR Plays a Central Role in Ethics Programs
… things I noticed was the absence of any type of ethics or compliance initiative. It’s up to me to put ..... ingredients for leading a successful corporate ethics initiative. "HR as the ethics office" isn’t an oxymoron. Indeed, a recent …
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Lockheed Martin Is Game for Ethics
… Although many companies have established ethics programs during the last decade, few ..... based defense giant has designed an ethics program that's a model for the corporate ..... every employee. It lists the company's ethics standards and discusses why honesty …
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iDear Workforce -iWhat Can HR Do To Boost Acceptance Of Our Ethics Program
… a vital role in any organizationâ s ethics program. In an organization where management and employees view the ethics program as unimportant, the role of ..... of the past 18 months have shown that ethics is an area of strategic importance to …
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Handling Questions of Ethics From Job Candidates
… more questions before you start there." Ethics statements: guidelines or gospel? "Okay ..... what isn’t. "We learned in business ethics class that after Northrop got in trouble ..... for falsifying test results, its new ethics ’ code specifically told employees they …
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Dear Workforce How Do We Know If Ethics Training Is Working
… Dear Results: The success of business- ethics training can be difficult to quantify if ..... effectively measure the success of an ethics program, each dependent on the companyâ ..... set specific goals and milestones. With ethics and integrity, each company has to define …
