Hana Callaghan is the director of the Government Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and the author of Campaign Ethics, A Field Guide. The opinions expressed herein are her own.

The most important influence on ethical behavior in the workplace is overall company culture, which determines whether employees are valued or belittled and whether stakeholders are treated with trust ...

When managers are unethical, employees will emulate the bad behavior. Eventually, the unethical environment will hinder business. For example, if managers take credit for subordinates' work, some ...

One can scarcely open the newspaper without finding examples of smart, well-educated people who have behaved in ethically challenged ways: for example, Bernard Madoff and the numerous investment ...

What traits do ethical leaders share? Ask most people that question and they’ll start listing terms like “integrity,” “honesty,” “fairness,” “trustworthiness,” “compassion,” and so on. Not long after ...

Every decision we make, whether consciously or unconsciously, is informed by our ethical values, including those in business. While ethics has always been emphasized in the finance classes I’ve taken, ...

Financial services firms seeking to evaluate and improve their risk management programs often find that defining, encouraging and monitoring ethical behavior is one of the most difficult undertakings ...

Leadership in many types of organizations sometimes fails to distinguish between governance and ethics. Governance might affect ethics. But this is not always the case. Strongly worded statements and ...

Ethical leadership is needed more than ever in today's corporate and political global landscape. The media reports numerous examples daily of inappropriate ethical behaviour by corporations and ...

Most leaders would claim they want the utmost ethical standards upheld by those they lead. But they might be shocked to discover that, even with the best of intentions, their own leadership may be ...

As science innovation has progressed, and as we celebrate what that means, a new and urgent need exists. As citizens of the world, we all have a responsibility to think morally and ethically about ...

Traditional compliance monitors corporate data to flag potential unethical behavior by employees, whether illegal actions or simply those that violate corporate policies. The programs then seek to ...