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Released: 15-Feb-2003 12:00 AM EST
Ethics May Fall along Gender Lines
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Ethics in the workplace has been a hot topic for the past two years.

Released: 31-Jan-2003 12:00 AM EST
What Enron Can Teach Families about Love
Southern Methodist University

Corporate wrongdoings are ethical failings in the boardroom, but the behaviors -- greed, lying and hubris -- begin in the family. If you want ethical managers, business ethicists say raise ethical children.

Released: 21-Dec-2002 12:00 AM EST
Professors Support SEC Rules to Deter Corporate Fraud
Cornell University

Corporate law faculty support a rule recently proposed by the SEC that would make lawyers involved in executing corporate transactions more accountable for addressing client fraud. The effort was spearheaded by Cornell University law professor Roger Cramton and his co-authors of a book on law and ethics.

Released: 15-Oct-2002 12:00 AM EDT
Ethical Attitudes More Tolerant If Scenario Already Experienced
Baylor University

Business people who have already experienced an ethical dilemma have a much more tolerant view of questionable ethical behavior when confronted with similar situations.

Released: 15-Oct-2002 12:00 AM EDT
Current Business Students Have Higher Ethical Attitudes than 1980's Counterparts
Baylor University

Contrary to the "greed is good" business climate of the 1980's, business students nowadays are significantly more disapproving of questionable ethical situations, according to research done at Baylor University.

Released: 15-Oct-2002 12:00 AM EDT
Religiosity and Gender Significant Predictors of Attitudes About Business Ethics
Baylor University

The more frequently college students attend church, the more disapproving they are likely to be of ethically questionable business situations, according to joint research done at two universities in the United States. Other noteworthy predictors of ethical perceptions are the factors of gender and age.

Released: 8-Oct-2002 12:00 AM EDT
Ethics Focus Week Opportunity for Practical Learning
Baylor University

Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business will be providing special emphasis on issues of integrity during Ethics Focus Week, Oct. 28-Nov. 1, 2002. The week ends with a Roundtable on Integrity in Financial Reporting.

Released: 24-Sep-2002 12:00 AM EDT
Roundtable: Integrity in Financial Reporting
Baylor University

Explore the issues associated with integrity in financial reporting through lively discussion with a panel of national experts.

Released: 4-Sep-2002 12:00 AM EDT
Lawyer's Campaign Pays Off in New Rules to Fight Corporate Misdeeds
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

A six-year campaign by a law professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to hold lawyers accountable for preventing executive wrongdoing has ended in tough new federal requirements.

4-Sep-2002 12:00 AM EDT
Nearly Any Employee May Be Willing To Steal In Some Situations
Ohio State University

A new study suggests that nearly any worker may be willing to steal from an employer under some circumstances -- unless the company makes clear that theft is unethical.

Released: 2-Aug-2002 12:00 AM EDT
Solution For Scandal: Ethics And Integrity
Purdue University

Purdue University's business school dean and an engineering graduate who went on to be CEO of his own company say rebuilding investor confidence comes down to the personal ethics and integrity of individuals.

Released: 26-Jul-2002 12:00 AM EDT
New Institute for Business Ethics Announced
Elmhurst College

Elmhurst College, in partnership with the James S. Kemper Foundation, is pleased to announce its new Institute for Business Ethics.

Released: 26-Jul-2002 12:00 AM EDT
Don't Blame Everything on the Auditor
Baylor University

The accounting profession may face intense scrutiny as corporate scandals unfold, but don't blame the auditor for failing to spot every fraud that surfaces, says the chairman of Baylor University's accounting department.

Released: 23-Jul-2002 12:00 AM EDT
Experts Can Connect to Today's Biggest Business Stories
Dick Jones Communications

Stories about corporate corruption dominate business news coverage. The following are ideas for stories that tie into that coverage, as well as some that may provide a respite from it.

Released: 2-Jul-2002 12:00 AM EDT
Research Examines SEC's Division of Corporation Finance
Penn State Smeal College of Business

Orie Barron, associate professor of accounting in the Penn State Smeal College of Business, has co-authored four papers examining the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance. The papers on the DCF are the only academic research on the topic, and co-authored with Charles Kile of the University of Alabama at Huntsville.

Released: 26-Jun-2002 12:00 AM EDT
Small Business Owners Doing Little to Promote Ethics
Penn State Smeal College of Business

Many business leaders are failing to provide adequately for ethics compliance in their organizations, and small-business owners, are doing little -- in some cases, nothing at all -- to promote an ethical corporate culture, according to a recent survey of CEOs.

Released: 18-Jun-2002 12:00 AM EDT
A New Idea for Getting Directors to Think Like Owners
Penn State Smeal College of Business

Numerous critics have raised serious concerns recently about outside directors who do not have much riding on the financial performance of their firms. One method for improving corporate governance is to make outside directors owners, but not necessarily by just giving them shares, suggests a Penn State management professor.

Released: 8-Jun-2002 12:00 AM EDT
How to Conduct an Ethical Culture Audit Before Joining a Firm
Penn State Smeal College of Business

While advancement opportunities, corporate culture, salary, and signing bonuses are important factors when considering a job offer, a Penn State authority on ethics and leadership advises conducting an ethical culture audit before joining any firm, and suggests 15 questions to ask.

Released: 8-May-2002 12:00 AM EDT
Warnings from the Enron Message Board
Central Michigan University

The collapse of Enron came first from insiders on message boards. In April 2001, four months before Enron collapsed, an anonymous e-mail warned of the impending doom of the financial giant. Recent research indicates that insiders may have warned of Enron's fall as much as four years before it actually occurred.

Released: 30-Mar-2002 12:00 AM EST
Law Professor Warned of Accounting Profession's Ethical Conflicts
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

In a 1987 article, a University of Illinois law professor warned that coziness between auditors and managers and pressure to sell consulting services to corporations were distorting the "core standards" of large accounting firms.

Released: 1-Dec-2001 12:00 AM EST
HR Departments Should Play A More Prominent Role in Ethics Management
Penn State Smeal College of Business

Although many large corporations now have formal programs for managing ethical behavior and legal compliance, human resources departments often play only a minor role in companies' ethics management efforts, according to a new study.

Released: 23-Oct-2001 12:00 AM EDT
Perceptions of Organizational Justice Vital to Workplace Ethics Programs
Penn State Smeal College of Business

Many organizations are devoting substantial resources to formal ethics programs in efforts to discourage unethical behavior, but a new study co-authored by a researcher in Penn State's Smeal College of Business shows that the success of those efforts will depend in part on whether employees perceive that their organization treats people in a generally fair way.

   
Released: 10-Mar-2001 12:00 AM EST
Harrasment in Schools: Follow Business Model
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Harassment at school differs from harassment in the workplace, because in the latter there is a legal course of action to pursue to stop the harassment, according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham management professor.

Released: 31-Jan-2001 12:00 AM EST
Corporate Image in the Media Impacts Employees
Penn State Smeal College of Business

The image a corporation projects to external audiences through its public affairs efforts deeply impacts its employees, according to a study authored by researchers in Penn State's Smeal College of Business. (Journal of Public Affairs)

Released: 13-Dec-2000 12:00 AM EST
Who Says Only the Ruthless Succeed in Business?
Business Ethics Magazine

Responsible business practices are successful business practices.

Released: 13-Jun-2000 12:00 AM EDT
Pros and Cons of Multi-Disciplinary Practices
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

As lawyers across the country debate the merits and drawbacks of lawyers forming partnerships with non-lawyer professionals, a University of Arkansas law professor sits on the committee that will recommend a course for Arkansas.

Released: 5-May-2000 12:00 AM EDT
Practice of Lawyers "Buying Business" on Rise
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

"Pay-to-play," the practice whereby lawyers make political contributions to government officials who award legal contracts, has been stubbornly resistant to reform, according to a University of Illinois legal scholar.

Released: 23-Feb-2000 12:00 AM EST
Business Owes Significant Obligations to Society
Vanderbilt University

Business is the most dominant social organizing force in the world today and, as such, it owes significant obligations to society, according to a Vanderbilt University professor.

Released: 3-Aug-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Companies Develop a Consensus on Global Ethics Codes
Conference Board

Driven by growing participation in global markets, the contribution that common business conduct standards can make to improving Asian, African, and Latin American development prospects, and increased emphasis on corporate and individual conduct, companies in all regions are formulating, implementing and monitoring global business practice standards, according to a Conference Board study.

Released: 23-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Corporate ethics programs have to mean business, new study confirms
University of Delaware

A new study shows that corporate ethics programs work as long as the company values moral conduct as much as the bottom line. "A firm's approach to ethics and legal compliance has an enormous impact on employees' attitudes and behaviors," says Linda Klebe Trevino, professor of management at Penn State.

Released: 20-Jan-1999 12:00 AM EST
Group Proposes Worldwide Ethics Principles
American College of Physicians (ACP)

An international group of health leaders released a "Shared Statement of Ethical Principles for Those Who Shape and Give Health Care" in today's issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.

Released: 15-Jan-1999 12:00 AM EST
Ex-Convicts, MBA Grads Have Similar Ethical Standards
Ball State University

When it comes to ethical standards, convicts and MBA students rate about even, says a Ball State University researcher.

Released: 26-Sep-1998 12:00 AM EDT
MBA Students Have Clear Ideas of What Is Ethical in Negotiations
Ohio State University

A new study suggests that MBA students have clear ideas of which tactics are ethically proper and improper in the course of business negotiations. But the students' views are shaped by their gender, nationality, age, work experience, and other factors.

Released: 9-Jan-1998 12:00 AM EST
How serious is big business about ethics?
University of Delaware

A new study soon-to-be published in the Journal of Business Ethics finds that most major corporations that have formal "ethics" programs are only "going through the motions."

Released: 29-Apr-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Most Worker Empowerment Programs are Bogus
University of Richmond

Programs to empower workers almost always fail because managers promise more than they can deliver. So says Joanne Ciulla, professor of leadership and ethics at the University of Richmond's Jepson School of Leadership Studies. She has written a paper entitled, "Leadership and the Problem of Bogus Empowerment," recently published as a working paper of the Kellogg Leadership Studies Project.



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