Ethikos Weekly Editor’s Picks – August 6, 2014

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Editor’s Top Choice:

The Ethics Coach on Dealing with the Office Know-It-All 

From Gael O’Brien of Entrepreneur:

Q: One of my business partners shuts down discussion in meetings by dismissing ideas or concerns that don’t mesh with what he has learned during his career. I worry that people’s unwillingness to challenge him makes us vulnerable to other problems. He isn’t receptive to feedback. Suggestions?

A: He may not be thinking through the consequences of his actions or even be aware of the toxic impact he’s having on the culture. You have to step up to help him see what he’s doing and turn the situation around… Read more


Other Featured Picks of the Week

UK boards urged to take control of ethical values 

From The Financial Times:

Boards must take control of setting a company’s ethical values and be prepared to dismiss chief executives whose values are not compatible with the culture they seek, says the Institute of Business Ethics.

A report by Peter Montagnon, the IBE’s associate director, says boards need to set appropriate values and understand how to influence behaviour throughout the company so that employees will make good decisions. They also need to understand where their oversight role begins and ends and what is the operational role of the management. Read more


Turning To Ethics When Trust In Business Is At An All-Time Low (What About Pay?)

Dina Medland contributor to Forbes, “After years of feeling they might be fighting lone battles, all the ‘good guys’ with an interest in better business, leadership and corporate governance could be forgiven for giving a little cheer. Not only is ‘sustainability’ beginning to go mainstream, but so – it seems – is an endeavour for ethics to follow suit.’ Read more


VIDEO: Global Business Ethics: China and US Issues 

In this interview with Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics discussed business ethics issue in the US and China with Liu Baocheng, executive director, Center for International Business Ethics, Beijing, China, Read more


B-schools can’t teach ethics, firms need to hire candidates with strong values 

From Moinak Mitra, of The Economic Times, “Around this time last year, marketing maven and thought leader Jagdish Sheth co-wrote The Business School in the Twenty-first Century along with Peter Lorange and Howard Thomas, challenging the status, identity and legitimacy of business schools in the modern university system. In India to attend a Wipro board meeting in his capacity as director, The Charles Kellstadt Professor of Marketing at Emory University’s famed Goizueta Business School expounds on his vision of the platform, tenure and composition of future business courses.” Read more


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