Tag Archives: Ethics

Leaders determine culture: The troubling case of UK policing.

Posted on June 22, 2015 by lawrence serewicz

UK College of Policing published a report on police leadership culture.[1] The report found that the top officer culture is problematic as it encourages bullying, sexual harassment, and a sense of entitlement to legal and illegal perks. The report describes … Continue reading →

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Is an organisation corrupt or just ill?

Posted on October 31, 2014 by lawrence serewicz

When we hear about a corrupt organisation we often are surprised and outraged. What we fail to consider is that all organisations are never completely healthy. They are all ill to some extent. They will have practices that are dubious, … Continue reading →

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How work can compromise our ethics

Posted on September 17, 2014 by lawrence serewicz

Before we enter the work place, we are never warned that the work can deform us ethically. We hear about accidents, sexual harassment, or even fraud, but how many of us are warned about the way that work can deform … Continue reading →

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The Facebook experiment and the web’s ethical void

Posted on July 24, 2014 by lawrence serewicz

The Facebook Experiment has upset many people.[1] In the experiment, which was conducted in 2012, Facebook manipulated the timelines of some of its users. They filled it with good or bad news to study its effect on the user’s mood. … Continue reading →

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Do corporate integrity programmes work or does culture eat them too?

Posted on July 10, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

  The Barclays fine for the LIBOR scandal and Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK)’s massive fine by regulators raises the question whether corporate integrity programmes work. All major firms have the programmes in some form either as a corporate social responsibility programme or as an … Continue reading →

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Good Corporate Citizen or Good Person: check your ethics at the door?

Posted on May 19, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

With the recent financial crisis hitting the world, there have been a several attempts to understand what went wrong with the system.  A financial and economic system that delivered staggeringly good results and provided economic benefits to billions of people … Continue reading →

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