Ethikos Editor’s Weekly Picks: What is Your Ethical Culture?

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What is Your Ethical Culture

Thomas Fox for FCPA Compliance Report:
The indictments last week of executives from Takata and Volkswagen roiled many in the business world and ethics and compliance arena. Coming on the heels of the Wells Fargo scandal, one might wonder how corporations can stop the clear ethical lapses which led to these corporate disasters. Read more

Employee Motivation Has to Be More than ‘a Pat on the Back’

Heather Huhman for Entrepreneur:
Over the years, Pavel Vosk noticed something about employee motivation. The Puyallup, Washington-based business and management consultant watched time and again as previously overachieving employees turned into unmotivated ones. They’d go from giving 110 percent to doing the bare minimum in a relatively short period of time. Read more

Why It’s So Hard to Train Someone to Make an Ethical Decision

Eugene Soltes for Harvard Business Review:
One of the conundrums of ethical decision making is that many moral decisions that are quite straightforward — even easy — to resolve in a classroom or during training exercises seem far more difficult to successfully resolve when confronted during actual day-to-day decision making. Read more

Why People Are Lying to You (and How to Stop Them)

From Wanda Thibodeaux for Inc.:
Honesty is supposed to be one of the key components of integrity (you know, doing the right thing when no one is looking, that thing that’s so critical to building the relationships that help your business thrive). Yet, according to Bella DePaulo, Ph.D., a psychologist at the University of Virginia, lying is on the same par with brushing your teeth. Read more

Tips to Create an Ethical Business Culture

Justin O. Walker for Business.com:
Once employees see other employees skirting the rules without any consequences, they often start to believe that it is okay for them to do the same. Additionally, an employee who wants to do the right thing may increasingly feel pressured not to speak up about unethical behavior out of fear. Read more

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