Ethics
COMMENT: Ethics, 4 November, 2020
Can business leaders be more effective human rights advocates?
Businesses are increasingly expected to engage with societal issues. Boards will need new skills to meet the challenge.
INSIGHT: Ethics, 2 November, 2020
If you get on with your boss you’re more likely to lie for them
New research reveals that employees are more likely to engage in unethical behaviour for a boss with whom they have a good relationship.
INSIGHT: Corporate governance, 26 October, 2020
The ICGN Global Stewardship Principles: 2020 revisions
The updated ICGN GSP reflect shifts in market practice and regulation, as well as evolving attitudes towards stewardship.
NEWS: Corporate governance, 25 September, 2020
Boohoo board in the firing line over governance failings
Report by Alison Levitt QC criticises the fashion retailer’s board for presiding over “unacceptable” working conditions posing “a significant risk of disaster”.
INSIGHT: Strategy, 16 September, 2020
Four principles to keep your business’s social purpose goals on track
The pandemic has underlined the need for social purpose. Here’s how to make it part of your short, medium and long-term strategy.
INSIGHT: Corporate culture, 3 September, 2020
Three cognitive biases perpetuating racism at work—and how to overcome them
While many companies are doing more to tackle racial inequality, unconscious biases can undermine these efforts.
INSIGHT: Research, 1 September, 2020
Covid crisis could lead employees to ‘compromise ethical standards’
Ethics & Compliance Initiative warns that the “extraordinary” changes forced by the pandemic could raise the risk of ethical transgressions.
INSIGHT: Board composition, 17 August, 2020
Equality pays: the economic and social benefits of women on boards
The economic, social and environmental benefits derived from greater gender equality on boards are numerous—and increasingly important to investors.
NEWS: Business issues, 14 August, 2020
Governance week: Covid business models, CEO pay, CSR, McDonald’s scandal
Business models in the pandemic; shareholder attitudes to CEO pay; incentives for CSR and former McDonald’s CEO’s workplace relationships.
INSIGHT: Research, 12 August, 2020
From codes to committees: the institutionalisation of business ethics
Ethics committees are a powerful signal of commitment to an ethical agenda. A recent study looked at the factors that determine whether an organisation takes this step.