The Right Call
QUESTION: What responsibility do employers have to foster mutual respect amid diversity? >
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The Right Call Audio Collection
Audio from the interviews that shape Alberta Venture's "The Right Call" column >
Dial F for Fraud
Question: When you catch an employee stealing, should you always call the cops? >
The Lure of the Green
Question: If you can cut costs by outsourcing work overseas, should you do it? >
The Ethics of Executive Pay
Question: Should executive compensation be left entirely up to the market?
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Revolving Door
n. A government organization whose personnel frequently accept high-ranking positions within private enterprise (and vice versa)
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Don’t Shoot the Messenger
Mention whistle-blowing to your co-workers and you’re guaranteed to clear any office in a matter of seconds. The pejorative ring and blighted careers associated with exposing a company’s wrongdoings often prevent many do-gooders from going public.
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Ethical Leadership: Sacrifice or Self-interest?
The Big Picture is a regular column which voices broad corporate and economic issues through extended dialogue with prominent academic and business leaders. This is #9 in “Ethical Leadership,” a 10-part series on corporate ethics, governance and leadership.
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Ethical Leadership: Setting the Tone
In late June 2003, the Ontario Securities Commission introduced three new rules for public comment. These rules deal with the certification of annual and interim disclosures by the chief executive officer and the chief financial officer of Canadian publicly listed companies, the role and composition of audit committees and support for the work of the Canadian Public Accountability Boardin its oversight of auditors of public companies.
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Ethical Leadership: The Nurturing of Ethical Leaders
The chairman and chief executive officer of a national financial services firm sent a voice mail message to all employees apologizing for remarks he had made five days earlier at an investment conference. The chairman learned that employees had interpreted his “glib and insensitive response” to a question about cutbacks as contrary to the company’s commitment to its employees. >
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