Conceptual frameworks drawn from theories that have shaped the study of ethics over centuries can help us recognize and describe ethical issues when we encounter them. In this way, a basic grasp of ...

As businesses grow, they often choose to become corporations because selling stock to investors allows access to capital to hire new employees and fund expansion. When a company hires more workers and ...

Consequence ethics is a philosophical approach to morality by which the results of an action determine the potential good of the action. Consequence ethics suggests weighing the consequences of ...

Last week, an independent investigation of the American Psychological Association found that several of its leaders aided the U.S. Department of Defense’s controversial enhanced interrogation program ...

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An ethical code also doesn’t require legislation or regulation to be put into place; the companies could adopt it on their own. But it would be no surprise if a well-developed ethical code ended up ...

On March 26, 2014, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson spoke to an international meeting of the InterAction Council, an association of former presidents and prime ...

LONDON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Firms that check environmental, social and governance claims made by companies will be asked to follow a proposed new ethics code to help combat greenwashing, the chief of a ...

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I’m not a big fan of “codes of ethics.” This isn’t because I’m an unethical boob who wants people to lie and steal. Rather, I think that codes of ethics don’t necessarily result in ethical behavior ...