Centre for Ethical Orientation - Journal for Business Ethics, Personal Management, Ethical decision making

As part of Marketing Magazine’s ongoing Ethics & Marketing series, John Dalla Costa has designed this Business Ethics Audit to help organizations gauge the state of ethical practice within operating cultures.

 

Read full article | September 8, 2006
Centre for Ethical Orientation - Magnificence Project, Forum, Blog, Discussions

When CIBC settled its $2.5 billion class action lawsuit for its Enron related frauds, the bank “admitted no wrong-doing.” These legal weasel words are part of the corporate rhetoric for dealing with scandal, but now that almost a thousand jobs are being cut at CIBC to deal with the fiscal year losses, it is time to reflect on the high price for such easy denial.

The company has in fact done many things wrong. The Board chose the wrong executives (in the wrong way) for those who remember its embarrassing shoot out between the winner Mr. Hunkin and the loser Mr. Kluge. The company then chose the wrong strategy, fanning the dot-com bubble...

Read & discuss this article | December 3, 2005
 
Manificence at Work
(2005 published by Novalis, Toronto, Canada)

Work matters profoundly to faith. It is where we practice integrity, fulfilling responsibilities for productivity with those of Christian discipleship.

Yet the challenge is for more than spirituality at work. We are called to make work a spiritual practice - a form of praise and prayer by which what we do for a living satisfies the deepest needs of our souls.

The integration of morality and strategy opens possibilities for magnificence. This is management as it is meant to be: achieving great results that are inherently good; raising beauty and fairness as well as productivity and returns; taking risks to create not only worth but also what is worthy, liberating and of joy to the soul.

 


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